Unknowable Quotes

The One Lord and Master is pleasing to my mind. In Your three qualities, the world is engrossed; the Unknowable cannot be known. - Sri Guru Granth Sahib

The highest happiness of man is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable. - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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

Religion: A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable. - Ambrose Bierce

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

O Siblings of Destiny, service to the True Guru alone is True. When the True Guru is pleased, we obtain the Perfect, Unseen, Unknowable Lord. - Sri Guru Granth Sahib

O my mind, serve the Unknowable and Immaculate Lord, the Man-lion; serving Him, your account will be cleared. - Sri Guru Granth Sahib

My painting is visible images which conceal nothing... they evoke mystery and indeed when one sees one of my pictures, one asks oneself this simple question 'What does that mean'? It does not mean anything, because mystery means nothing either, it is unknowable. - Rene Magritte

Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable. - James Duffecy

Music . . . can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable. - Leonard Bernstein