H. P. Lovecraft Quotes

The known is finite, the unknown is infinite.

Wonder is not precisely knowing.

Curiosity is what separates us from the cabbages. It's accelerative. The more we know, the more we want to know.

I lose sleep at night wondering whether we are intelligent enough to figure out the universe. I don't know.

I know nothing, except the fact of my ignorance.

I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.

I'm not afraid of getting into a subject I don't know much about.

Scientific facts are often described in textbooks as if they just sort of exist, like nickels someone picked up on the street. But science at the cutting edge, conducted by sharp minds probing deep into nature, is not about self-evident facts. It is about mystery and not knowing. It is about taking huge risks.

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

My relationship with science is as someone who's curious and hungry to know, hungry to understand. So all I have to offer is my ignorance and my curiosity, which is a good combination, as long as they come together.

I can tell you for me it goes on forever. There are some things you can't ever find out. You can't find out in one life either.

The finite human being shall never know in its fullness Truth and Love which is itself infinite.

As human beings, don't we need questions without answers as well as questions with answers, questions that we might someday answer and questions that we can never answer?

Don't imagine that you'll discover {the truth} by accumulating more knowledge. Knowledge creates doubt, and doubt makes you ravenous for more knowledge. You can't get full eating this way.

All men desire by nature to know.

I don't feel frightened by not knowing things, by being lost in the mysterious universe without any purpose - which is the way it really is, as far as I can tell. Possibly. It doesn't frighten me.

Of all the things we've learned, we still haven't learned where did this desire to want to know come from?

People usually asked her if she had a belly button. Of course she had a belly button. She couldn't explain how. She didn't really want to know.

The pursuit of knowledge is but a course between two ignorances, as human life is itself only a wayfaring from grave to grave.

Of course, I don't know everything. Considering the infinite amount of knowledge that one could acquire in a virtually innumerable array of intellectual disciplines, it's probably more accurate to say that I don't know anything.

I have no idea,' he tells her, and there is such a spark in his eye when he says it, she can tell having no idea is exactly the way he wants it.

We're forever teetering on the brink of the unknowable, and trying to understand what can't be understood.

I don't like mysteries, which is why I want to solve them. It bothers me that there are things I don't know.

There aren't many such enthusiasts born. The average person is not especially curious about the world. He is alive, and being somehow obliged to deal with this condition, feels the less effort it requires, the better. Whereas learning about the world is labor, and a great all-consuming one at that. Most people develop quite antithetical talents, in fact - to look without seeing, to listen without hearing, mainly to preserve onself within oneself.