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How to use the word unknowable in a Sentence?

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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 Stewart

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

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 Fuhrman

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

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 Darnovsky

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

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 Shih

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13 years ago

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

– H. L. Mencken

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13 years ago

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

– Leonard Bernstein

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13 years ago

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

– H.L. Mencken

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14 years ago

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

– Johann von Goethe

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14 years ago

Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.

– Leonard Bernstein

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14 years ago

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 Reuweler

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14 years ago

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 Green

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14 years ago

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