Cloud Of Unknowing Quotes

#1. a craving for the cloud of unknowing beyond knowledge and for the silence beyond speech,

Susan Sontag

#2. At the heart of all truth lies a radiant cloud of unknowing, a glorious nugget of doubt, a shining core of impermanence.

James K. Morrow

#3. Don't you think he may be pursuing an ideal that is hidden in a cloud of unknowing - like an astronomer looking for a star that only a mathematical calculation tells him exists?

W. Somerset Maugham

#4. Fathers are teachers of the true and not-true, and no father ever knowingly teaches what is not true. In a cloud of unknowing, then, the father proceeds with his instruction.

Donald Barthelme

#5. Did the gods once mingle with humankind, or is Homer a visionary madman, or, what is worse, a mere poet, a maker-up of beautiful falsities, an elegant liar? I shall grapple with that perplexity, only to emerge as I went in, in a cloud of unknowing, if perhaps a little the wiser.

Eva Brann

#6. Accident is design / And design is accident / In a cloud of unknowing.

T. S. Eliot

#7. We all got used to living in the cloud of unknowing.

Amanda Palmer

#8. When I get on a plane, I got to tell you, if I see people who are in Muslim garb and I think, you know, they are identifying themselves first and foremost as Muslims, I get worried. I get nervous.

Juan Williams

#9. Delayed gratification leads to patience.

Sunday Adelaja

#10. Only the poet has any right to be sorry for the poor, if he has anything to spare when he has thought of the dull, commonplace rich.

William Bolitho

#11. In outward show so splendid and so vain; 'tis but a gilded block without a brain.

Phaedrus

#12. Musk began thinking back to his time as an intern at the Bank of Nova Scotia. His big takeaway from that job, that bankers are rich and dumb, now had the feel of a massive opportunity.

Ashlee Vance

#13. While illusion distorts reality for a moment, error can reign for a millennia in abstractions, throw its iron yoke over whole peoples and stifle the noblest impulses of humanity; those it cannot deceive are left in chains by those it has, by its slaves.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#14. Sometimes you catch the wave. Sometimes the wave catches you.

Michael Grant

#15. Where are the beginnings, the endings, and most important, the middles?

Julio Cortazar

#16. That which one cannot experience in daily life is not true for oneself.

D.H. Lawrence

#17. Evangelical churches are weaker than we realize because we don't teach the confessions and doctrine.

J.I. Packer

#18. Our age is very cheap and intelligible. Unroof any house, and you shall find it. The well-being consists in having a sufficiency of coffee and toast, with a daily newspaper; a well glazed parlor, with marbles, mirrors and centre-table; and the excitement of a few parties and a few rides in a year.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#19. Just because I'd spent so many years coloring inside the lines, it wasn't fair for me to expect perfection. People make mistakes. Life isn't fair. People change.

Sarah Dunn

#20. If you are sure that you are about to fail, then this strange and serene calmness can come over you or the most abject fear and panic and feeling of helplessness.

Peter Gallagher

#21. To be aware of inattention is to be attentive. Complete attention is love. It alone can see, and the seeing is the doing.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#22. Great minds have purpose, others have wishes. Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortunes; but great minds rise above them.

Washington Irving