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Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing. – H. L. MenckenRate it:
Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable. – Leonard BernsteinRate it:
Everyone feels like they know her. That’s what’s beautiful about her, that she’s accessible, you feel like you’re friends with her, like she was your mother. But ironically she was the most unknowable person… In the imagining of these three days we wanted that to really come to a head. – Kristen StewartRate it:
For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing. – H.L. MenckenRate it:
It's a sign of companies' complete lack of confidence in their ability to calculate how long they would have to wait to get a primary IPO listing in China. It's absolutely unknowable at this stage. – Peter FuhrmanRate it:
Music . . . can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable. – Leonard BernsteinRate it:
My writing is like a ten gallon spring. It can issue from the ground anywhere at all. On smooth ground it rushes swiftly on and covers a thouasand li in a single day without difficulty. When it twists and turns among mountains and rocks, it fits its form to things it meets: unknowable. What can be known is, it always goes where it must go, always stops where it cannot help stopping -- nothing else. More than that, even I cannot know. – Su ShihRate it:
The highest happiness of man ... is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable. – Johann von GoetheRate it:
The techniques ... are relatively crude and will not in and of themselves create so-called designer babies, however, they will result in children with DNA from three different people in every cell of their bodies, which will impact a large range of traits in unknowable ways and introduce genetic changes that will be passed down to future generations. – Marcy DarnovskyRate it:
The true God is the unknown God to the natural man and also the unknowable God without His revelation in Christ. God is not only invisible to man's sight , but also to man's senses. In Christ is found a God who is near, who hears, who cares, who loves, and who saves. 'For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ' (2 Cor. 46) 'All things are delievered unto me of my Father and no man knoweth the Son, but the Father neither knoweth any man the Father, save the son, and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal him' (Matt. 1127). – Eugene ReuwelerRate it:
You've got your phenomenon on one hand. Concrete and knowable. On the other hand you've got the incomprehensible. You call it God, but to me, God or no, it remains just that, the unknowable. – Robin GreenRate it:

Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.

– H. L. MenckenRate it:

Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.

– Leonard BernsteinRate it:

Everyone feels like they know her. That’s what’s beautiful about her, that she’s accessible, you feel like you’re friends with her, like she was your mother. But ironically she was the most unknowable person… In the imagining of these three days we wanted that to really come to a head.

– Kristen StewartRate it:

For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.

– H.L. MenckenRate it:

It's a sign of companies' complete lack of confidence in their ability to calculate how long they would have to wait to get a primary IPO listing in China. It's absolutely unknowable at this stage.

– Peter FuhrmanRate it:

Music . . . can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.

– Leonard BernsteinRate it:

My writing is like a ten gallon spring. It can issue from the ground anywhere at all. On smooth ground it rushes swiftly on and covers a thouasand li in a single day without difficulty. When it twists and turns among mountains and rocks, it fits its form to things it meets: unknowable. What can be known is, it always goes where it must go, always stops where it cannot help stopping -- nothing else. More than that, even I cannot know.

– Su ShihRate it:

The highest happiness of man ... is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.

– Johann von GoetheRate it:

The techniques ... are relatively crude and will not in and of themselves create so-called designer babies, however, they will result in children with DNA from three different people in every cell of their bodies, which will impact a large range of traits in unknowable ways and introduce genetic changes that will be passed down to future generations.

– Marcy DarnovskyRate it:

The true God is the unknown God to the natural man and also the unknowable God without His revelation in Christ. God is not only invisible to man's sight , but also to man's senses. In Christ is found a God who is near, who hears, who cares, who loves, and who saves. 'For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ' (2 Cor. 46) 'All things are delievered unto me of my Father and no man knoweth the Son, but the Father neither knoweth any man the Father, save the son, and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal him' (Matt. 1127).

– Eugene ReuwelerRate it:

You've got your phenomenon on one hand. Concrete and knowable. On the other hand you've got the incomprehensible. You call it God, but to me, God or no, it remains just that, the unknowable.

– Robin GreenRate it:

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