Knowable Quotes & Sayings
These knowable quotes, sayings and quotations are from our famous quotes collection. Inspirational quotes, sayings and quotations.Religion: A daughter of hope and fear, explaining to ignorance the nature of the unknowable. [The Devil's Dictionary] - Ambrose Bierce
Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing. - Henry Louis Mencken
The highest happiness of man is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable. - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing. - Henry Louis Mencken
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
Science has been seriously retarded by the study of what is not worth knowing and of what is not knowable. - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
We delight in one knowable thing, which comprehends all that is knowable; in one apprehensible, which draws together all that can be apprehended; in a single being that includes all, above all in the one which is itself the all. - Giordano Bruno