A Quote by Meister Eckhart

Though it may be called a nescience, and unknowing, yet there is in it more than all knowing and understanding without it; for this unknowing lures and attracts you from all understood things, and from yourself as well.

Meister Eckhart

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Attracts Knowing Knowing And Understanding May More Than Things Though Understanding Understood Unknowing Well Without Yourself

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Meister Eckhart
German - Philosopher
1260 - 1328

I want to preserve a certain unknowing about my own poems - perhaps because unknowing is in itself a useful poetic thirst. To move the perimeter of saying outside my own boundaries is one reason I write.

Jane Hirshfield

[W]e must come into a transformed knowing, an unknowing which comes not from ignorance but from knowledge.

Meister Eckhart

Seeing is believing and believing is knowing and knowing beats unknowing and the unknown.

Philip Roth

Of true knowledge at any time, a good part is merely convenient, necessary indeed to the worker, but not to an understanding of his subject: One can judge a building without knowing where to buy the bricks; one can understand a violin sonata without knowing how to score for the instrument. The work may in fact be better understood without a knowledge of the details of its manufacture, of attention to these tends to distract from meaning and effect.

Jacques Barzun

We are conjured voiceless out of nothing and must return to an unknowing state. What happens in between is an uncontrolled dance, and what we ask for in love is no more than a momentary chance to get the steps right, to move in harmony until the music stops.

Louise Erdrich

The Senate is an unknowing world

Robert Caro

The Senate is an unknowing world.

Robert Caro

When I went to school, they told me literature was a rope I must use to climb out of the dark well of unknowing. Writers are the knots on the rope.

Jennifer Stone

And who in time knows whither we may vent the treasure of our tongue, to what strange shores this gain of our best glories shall be sent, 't unknowing Nations with our stores? What worlds in the yet unformed Occident may come refined with the accents that are ours?

Samuel Daniel

I think unknowing is the most important theological idea for me. Unlearning the things you think you know.

Darcey Steinke

It hurts how life goes on, unknowing.

Cynthia Lord

Unknowing ignorance is preferable to informed stupidity.

Brandon Sanderson

He trudged along unknowing what he sought, And whistled as he went, for want of thought.

John Dryden

Truth walks toward us on the paths of our questions. As soon as you think you have the answer, you have closed the path and may miss the vital new information. Wait awhile in the stillness, and do not rush to conclusions, no matter how uncomfortable the unknowing.

Jacqueline Winspear

I had gone to no such place but to the smoke of cafes and nights when the room whirled and you needed to look at the wall to make it stop, nights in bed, drunk, when you knew that that was all there was, and the strange excitement of waking and not knowing who it was with you, and the world all unreal in the dark and so exciting that you must resume again unknowing and not caring in the night, sure that this was all and all and all and not caring.