Top 70 Quotes About Unknowing
#1. The heart is in darkness, unknowing, like those animals in mines that have never seen the day. It has no loyalties, no hopes; it has its task.
James Salter
#2. Each of them, all unknowing, fairly gives its due to each chance of life, to each germ of death within itself.
Paul Valery
#3. Now, for this book I had to learn the world of the Senate, which is really for all that's written about the Senate, an unknowing world and its mores, and the way things work with subcommittees and all. I loved learning about that.
Robert Caro
#4. 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
#5. 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
#7. 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
#9. When I went to school, they told me literature was a rope I must use to climb out of the dark well of unknowing. Writers are the knots on the rope.
Jennifer Stone
#10. If you, unknowing, are able to create masterpieces in color, then unknowledge is your way. But if you are unable to create masterpieces in color out of your unknowledge, then you ought to look for knowledge.
Johannes Itten
#11. Powerless But for the star destroyer Unknowing She crash-lands in his heart.
Elizabeth Fama
#12. [W]e must come into a transformed knowing, an unknowing which comes not from ignorance but from knowledge.
Meister Eckhart
#13. We can never speak about God rationally as we speak about ordinary things, but that does not mean we should give up thinking about God. We must push our minds to the limits of what we could know, descending ever deeper into the darkness of unknowing.
Joy Williams
#14. A log-in simulator is a program to trick some unknowing user into providing their user name and password.
Kevin Mitnick
#16. Enlightenment is not about knowing as much as it is about unknowing; it is not so much learning as unlearning. It is about surrendering and letting go rather than achieving and possessing. It's more about entering the mystery than arriving at a mental certitude.
Richard Rohr
#17. There have been a lot of critiques of the finance industry's having possibly foisted subprime mortgages on unknowing buyers, and a lot of those kinds of arguments are even more powerful when used against college administrators who are probably in some ways engaged in equally misleading advertising.
Peter Thiel
#18. I think unknowing is the most important theological idea for me. Unlearning the things you think you know.
Darcey Steinke
#19. The worst predijudice is unknowing. We think we treat others as equals, but, in our deepest heart, we regard ourselves as superior. In part, this is because we are, in ways, powerful. But that does not make the race of humans (funanga) better than that of the dog or equine.
Isobelle Carmody
#20. Ecstasy! In common parlance ecstasy is fun. But ecstasy is not fun. Your very soul is seized and shaken until it tingles. After all, who will choose to feel undiluted awe? The unknowing vulgar abuse the word; we must recapture its full and terrifying sense.
R. Gordon Wasson
#21. We the willing, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much, with so little, for so long, we are now qualified to do anything, with nothing.
Mother Teresa
#22. Today the law defines death, with appropriate blurriness, as the cessation of brain function. Though the heart may still throb and the unknowing bone marrow create new cells, no man's history can outlive his brain.
Sherwin B. Nuland
#23. Though it may be called a nescience, and unknowing, yet there is in it more than all knowing and understanding without it; for this unknowing lures and attracts you from all understood things, and from yourself as well.
Meister Eckhart
#24. Accident is design / And design is accident / In a cloud of unknowing.
T. S. Eliot
#25. The whole pleasure of being in a state of unknowing is that as long as you don't know, all possible outcomes feel as if they are happening.
John Green
#26. I want to preserve a certain unknowing about my own poems - perhaps because unknowing is in itself a useful poetic thirst. To move the perimeter of saying outside my own boundaries is one reason I write.
Jane Hirshfield
#27. I recognize the unknowing, involuntary effect that 'Facts of Life' had and continues to have on several generations of people.
Kim Fields
#28. How did my parents live before texting? Before the internet? I'm used to knowing things and all of this unknowing is driving me mad.
Stephanie Perkins
#29. Any company run by unknowing and mechanistic minds is in jeopardy and faces a limited life. Specifically, the pursuance of policies that focus on cost reduction and a continued optimisation of the bottom line just accelerate progress towards sudden death
Peter Cochrane
#30. Unknowing, or agnosia, is not ignorance or absence of knowledge as ordinarily understood, but rather the realization that no finite knowledge can fully know the Infinite One, and that therefore He is only truly to be approached by agnosia, or by that which is beyond and above knowledge.
Pseudo-Dionysius The Areopagite
#31. Seeing is believing and believing is knowing and knowing beats unknowing and the unknown.
Philip Roth
#32. One's mind and the earth are in a constant state of erosion, mental rivers wear away abstract banks, brain waves undermine cliffs of thought, ideas decompose into stones of unknowing, and conceptual crystallizations break apart into deposits of gritty reason.
Robert Smithson
#33. Boy with a maiden's glance,
I seek you out, but you hear not,
Unknowing that you are the charioteer
Of my soul.
Anacreon
#34. You have to be willing to endure the discomfort, the doubts and unknowing, you somehow find the courage to walk through your doubts and the difficult times because you are living the life you are meant to live.
Mary Pope Osborne
#35. Unknowing, let us sleep. Chest against chest,
Our breathing mingled, hand in hand without dreams.
Yves Bonnefoy
#36. TEIRESIAS:
You have your eyes but see not where you are
in sin, nor where you live, nor whom you live with.
Do you know who your parents are? Unknowing
you are enemy to kith and kin
in death, beneath the earth, and in this life.
Sophocles
#37. And it is hard to let go, to imagine alternatives, but you are bold with unknowing, you are ready to explore.
Terra Elan McVoy
#39. A theology of unknowing is necessary for a theology of knowing because without it God would not be worshipped as infinite but rather as a creature, and that would be idolatry.10
Thomas Moore
#40. This book is about a salvation that takes place within our unknowing and dissatisfaction,
Peter Rollins
#41. The fact is that the more we take flight upward [to God], the more our words are confined to the ideas we are capable of forming; so that now as we plunge into that darkness which is beyond intellect, we shall find ourselves not simply running short of words but actually speechless and unknowing.
Pope Dionysius
#42. He trudged along unknowing what he sought, And whistled as he went, for want of thought.
John Dryden
#43. The whole world might know you and acclaim you, but someone in the past, forever unreachable, forever unknowing, spoils it all.
Isaac Asimov
#44. When, at a closer glance, so many objects are questionable, when all knowledge seems to be clothed in a kind of deep unknowing, why do we still place any trust at all in reality as it appears to us, in the world in which we seem to live?
Markus Gabriel
#45. Who was more cursed, the one who died, unknowing until the very moment of his death, or the one who watched his destruction as it approached, step by step, for days and weeks and years?
Orson Scott Card
#46. Love. Who knows about another's love? The more you love the more you know the burnt out loss of love, the more you heed the silence of unknowing in the face of another's spiritual bondage.
Anne Rice
#47. We all got used to living in the cloud of unknowing.
Amanda Palmer
#48. Truth walks toward us on the paths of our questions ... as soon as you think you have the answer, you have closed the path and may miss vital new information. Wait awhile in the stillness, and do not rush to conclusions, no matter how uncomfortable the unknowing.
Jacqueline Winspear
#49. As on enquiring agnostic one seeks, not the smugness of atheism, not the blindness of idolatry - nor even the complacency of established religion - but the intelligent quest of the unknowing, in humility and with a clarity of mind
Andrew Ashdown
#51. Does a population have informed consent when that population is not taught the inner workings of its monetary system, and then is drawn, all unknowing, into economic adventures?
Frank Herbert
#52. One of the odd enjoyments in life is to be alone in a room full of people. To have them there as unknowing human filler in your wide shot.
Henry Rollins
#53. Whatever we say about God always rests within the larger reality of what we can't say; meaning always resides within a larger mystery; knowing always takes place within unknowing; whatever has been revealed to us surrounded by that which hasn't been revealed to us.
Rob Bell
#54. 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
#55. a craving for the cloud of unknowing beyond knowledge and for the silence beyond speech,
Susan Sontag
#56. He who hopes for spring with upturned eye never sees so small a thing as Draba. He who despairs of spring with downcast eye steps on it, unknowing. He who searches for spring with his knees in the mud finds it, in abundance.
Aldo Leopold
#58. The man in between waits between the two, not hearing the lie and not seeing the true. Unknowing what is and denying what seems, and there he will sleep, the man in between.
Neil Diamond
#59. And who in time knows whither we may vent the treasure of our tongue, to what strange shores this gain of our best glories shall be sent, 't unknowing Nations with our stores? What worlds in the yet unformed Occident may come refined with the accents that are ours?
Samuel Daniel
#60. Death: When next we meet, the hour will strike for you and your friends.
Antonius Block: And will you reveal your secrets?
Death: I have no secrets.
Antonius Block: So do you know nothing?
Death: I am unknowing.
Ingmar Bergman
#61. And the d'Urberville knights and dames slept on in their tombs unknowing.
Thomas Hardy
#62. Whenever its name has been anything but a jest, philosophy has been haunted by a subterranean question: What if knowledge were a means to deepen unknowing?
Nick Land
#63. And certainly there are many speakers whom I'd like to see do more trembling, more unknowing, more apologizing.
Maggie Nelson
#64. When I write, I don't know what is going to emerge. I begin in a condition of complete unknowing, an utter nakedness of concept or goal. A word appears, another word appears, an image. It is a moving into mystery.
Jane Hirshfield
#65. We are conjured voiceless out of nothing and must return to an unknowing state. What happens in between is an uncontrolled dance, and what we ask for in love is no more than a momentary chance to get the steps right, to move in harmony until the music stops.
Louise Erdrich
#66. You normally have to let go of the old and go through a stage of unknowing or confusion, before you can move to another level of awareness or new capacity.
Richard Rohr
#67. And in that moment, I felt my own ignorance spread suddenly out behind me like a pair of wings, and every single thing I didn't know was a feather on those wings. I could feel them tugging at the air, restless to be airborne.
Frank Cottrell Boyce
#69. Every word, every image used for God is a distortion more than a description.
Anthony De Mello
#70. I didn't know where it would lead. I wanted things to develop naturally.
Earl Lovelace
