Unknowable Truths Quotes

Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.

I think at this stage in my life I have learned that there are any number of things that men will never know, and can never hope to know, about women.

It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand, and what those things are

Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?

The marvelous thing is that for thousands of years people have continued questioning and searching and ultimately concluding that reasons for certain occurrences are not given to man to know.

The older I get, the more I believe in what I can't explain or understand, even more than the things that are explainable and understandable.

The mystery of our existence—I have no faith in any attempted explanation of it. It is all a dark, unfathomed profound.

The truth is an ambition which is beyond us.

Agnosticism has nothing to impart. Its sermons are the exhortations of one who convinces you he stands on nothing and urges you to stand there too.

Philosophy … consists chiefly in suggesting unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.

While Newton seemed to draw off the veil from some of the mysteries of nature, he showed at the same time the imperfections of the mechanical philosophy; and thereby restored her ultimate secrets to that obscurity, in which they ever did and ever will remain.

The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.

… a progressive discovery of our own ignorance

Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.

As far as I know, only a small minority of mathematicians, even of those with Platonist views, accept the idea that there may be mathematical facts which are true but unknowable.

The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

Reality seems so simple. We just open our eyes and there it is. But that doesn't mean it is simple.

Take from the church the miraculous, the supernatural, the incomprehensible, the unreasonable, the impossible, the unknowable, the absurd, and nothing but a vacuum remains.

In teaching man, experimental science results in lessening his pride more and more by proving to him every day that primary causes, like the objective reality of things, will be hidden from him forever and that he can only know relations.

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.

The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.

As a genre, the best horror poses central human questions - Who can you trust? What is the cost of our secrets? What is our relationship to history? What are we blind to? What evils are lurking under the smooth surface of the self? - through radical dislocations.

We feel that even if all possible scientific questions be answered, the problems of life have still not been touched at all.

It is natural that people should differ most, and most violently, about the unknowable . . . There is all the room in the world for divergence of opinion about something that, so far as we can realistically perceive, does not exist.

Whole areas of knowledge and information have been defined into nonexistence because the system cannot know, understand, control, or measure them.