Unknown And Unknowable Quotes

#1. what I feel is that spending my life trying to earn the favor of an unseen, unknown, and unknowable being who watches me from the sky is an exercise in sheer futility.

Brandon Sanderson

#2. The most important figures for management of any organization are unknown and unknowable.

W. Edwards Deming

#3. person's true potential is unknown (and unknowable); that it's impossible to foresee what can be accomplished with years of passion, toil, and training. Did

Carol S. Dweck

#4. The greatest losses are unknown and unknowable.

W. Edwards Deming

#5. Do not puzzle your mind with unknown and unknowable,

Ajit Kumar Jha

#6. The most important measures are both unknown and unknowable.

W. Edwards Deming

#7. Reason is an effort to know the unknown and intuition is the happening of the unknowable. To penetrate the unknowable is possible, but to explain it is not. The feeling is possible, the explanation is not.

Osho

#8. Life is the unknown and the unknowable, except that we are put into this world to eat, to stay alive as lone as we possibly can.

Richard Bach

#9. When you change, everything will change for you.
When you get better, everything will get better for you.

Jim Rohn

#10. What people need and what they want may be very different.

Elbert Hubbard

#11. A sphinx. A mystery. A blank. Unknown. Undefined. Unknowable. Indefinable. Those were all the words Brandy used to describe me in my veils. Not just a story that goes and then, and then, and then, and then until you die.

Chuck Palahniuk

#12. My greatest fear when we were doing "Body Heat" was that I wouldn't be sexy. I didn't have a self-image of myself as this alluring, powerful, sexual female.

Kathleen Turner

#13. There's magic in the unknown; a brooding fertility in the unknowable that can work on the reader's imagination long after a book is finished.

Claire Wingfield

#14. When he reached the fence he stopped for a moment to look back at the road and then he went on, crossing into a field of rank weeds that heeled with harsh dip and clash under the wind as if fled through by something unseen.

Cormac McCarthy

#15. If you're happy, that's probably the most important thing. Everyone probably has their own definition of success, for me it's happiness. Do I enjoy what I'm doing? Do I enjoy the people I'm with? Do I enjoy my life?

Michael Dell

#16. I know that these mental disturbances of mine are not dangerous and give no promise of a storm; to express what I complain of in apt metaphor, I am distressed, not by a tempest, but by sea-sickness.

Seneca.

#17. There are times when the midsummer sun strikes cold, and when the leaping flames of a hearthfire give no heat. Times when the chill within us comes not from fears we know, but from fears unknown-and forever unknowable.

Patricia Clapp

#18. Intuition is possible because the unknowable is there. Science denies the existence of the divine because it says, There is only one division: the known and the unknown. If there is any God, we will discover him through laboratory methods. If he exists, science will discover him.

Osho

#19. I want out of the labels. I don't want my whole life crammed into a single word. A story. I want to find something else, unknowable, some place to be that's not on the map. A real adventure.'
A spinx. A mystery. A blank. Unknown. Undefined.

Chuck Palahniuk

#20. God is certainly one. He has no second. He is unfathomable, unknowable and unknown to the vast majority of mankind.

Mahatma Gandhi

#21. Be careful that what you write does not offend anybody or cause problems within the company. The safest approach is to remove all useful information.

Scott Adams

#22. To remain virile in the light demands the audacity of a mad ignorance: letting oneself catch fire, screaming with joy, expecting death - because of an unknown, unknowable presence; becoming love and blind light oneself, attaining the perfect incomprehension of the sun.

Georges Bataille

#23. The greatest action is not conforming with the worlds ways.

Gautama Buddha

#24. One cannot be successful on visible figures alone ... the most important figures that one needs for management are unknown or unknowable, but successful management must nevertheless take account of them.

W. Edwards Deming

#25. There's simply no way you can tell a woman you work with that you disapprove of her relationship with her adult child, no matter how much you think it would be better for him to move out.

Mallory Ortberg

#26. For the narrative to exist, so that it could be read and reread even if I was taken away. Stories outlive their writers all the time. We know plenty about Goethe and Charles Dickens from what they chose to tell, even though they have been dead for years.

Jodi Picoult

#27. It is apparent, if you go back through our history, that the grand juries of the criminal justice system do not value black lives.

William Lacy Clay Jr.

#28. Every night I get up on stage, I love it. I never get like, 'Oh, I'm bored, I want to go home.' I never, ever get like that.

Zakk Wylde

#29. And there's no figuring out the unknowable. And there's some kind of oxymoron in that that's more moron than anything else.

Sarah Mussi

#30. My friend Isabel says, When you're writing even a short novel, with at least a couple of subplots, and God only knows how many characters, your brain holds the volume of it beyond the ability of your consciousness.
Of course.

Sarah Manguso

#31. Poetry is the journal of the sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air. Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable. Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.

Carl Sandburg

#32. She was completely inside herself, and I realized I'd never seem her that way- unknowable and unknown. Exactly the way I felt. It seemed confirmation we were made for each other, however painfully.

Scott Hutchins

#33. For us scientists, on the other wing, life is not quite so simple. Because we learn the unknown. Unlike, hah-hah, our esteemed friends the philosophers, who learn the unknowable.

Ken MacLeod

#34. Truth is, something exists, and everything exists for a reason. Regardless if the reason is known or unknown, knowable or unknowable, reason exists and can be named.

John K. Brown

#35. It is this belief in a power larger than myself and other than myself which allows me to venture into the unknown and even the unknowable.

Maya Angelou

#36. Now I am the unknown, the unknowable.

Maggie Stiefvater

#37. The desert wears ... a veil of mystery. Motionless and silent it evokes in us an elusive hint of something unknown, unknowable, about to be revealed. Since the desert does not act it seems to be waiting
but waiting for what?

Edward Abbey

#38. What makes you so special? Why should you get it and all the rest of us be in the dark?"
The momentum of the argument abruptly broke from his control. His face froze. "Because I've suffered," he burst out.

John Knowles