Quotes About Incompleteness

It wasn't enough, not nearly enough, but it was all there was.

we can't even say what it is we're missing. It's like you can feel the hole, but you don't know what's supposed to fill it, because it's something you've never seen. You don't want it to be every man for himself, but it sort of is. And there's not much you can do about it. I don't mean to talk in riddles.

In essence, capitalist systems are a mechanism by which economies may generate growth in knowledge - with much uncertainty in the process, owing to the incompleteness of knowledge.

What is ugly about life is that it so often only provides uneasy half solutions that are so seldom pure and tragic ones.

Many men build as cathedrals are built-the part nearest the ground finished, but that part which soars toward heaven, the turrets and the spires, forever incomplete.

There are ten men in me and I do not know or understand one of them.

Later - when things happened that they could never have imagined - she wrote him a letter that said: When will you learn that there isn't a word for everything?

Deliver me from Swedish furniture. Deliver me from clever art. May I never be complete. May I never be content. May I never be perfect.

May I never be complete May I never be content May I never be perfect

If all men were perfect, then every individual would be replaceable by anyone else. From the very imperfection of men follows the indispensability and inexchangeability of each individual; for each is imperfect in his own fashion.

We saw for a moment laid out among us the body of the complete human being whom we have failed to be, but at the same time, cannot forget.

Henry Moore: You need to hold questions that cannot be fully completed or lived out within the span of your lifetime.

there is a place in the heart that will never be filled a space and even during the best moments and the greatest times times we will know it we will know it more than ever there is a place in the heart that will never be filled and we will wait and wait in that space.

We cannot define. Nothing has ever been finally figured out, because there is nothing final to figure out

Science is a turtle that says that its own shell encloses all things.

I hold my honey and I store my bread In little jars and cabinets of my will. I label clearly, and each latch and lid I bid, Be firm till I return from hell. I am very hungry. I am incomplete. And none can tell when I may dine again.

Incompleteness was real. It meant that mathematics could never be proved free of self-contradiction.

Like all those possessing a library, Aurelian was aware that he was guilty of not knowing his in its entirety.

I feel like not knowing Joe Torre is a hole in my New York experience.

We don't read novels to have an experience like life. Heck, we're living lives, complete with all the incompleteness. We turn to fiction to have an author assure us that it means something.

Poetry: three mismatched shoes at the entrance of a dark alley.

The true genius shudders at incompleteness — imperfection — and usually prefers silence to saying the something which is not everything that should be said.

You weren't there.

no matter how much one reads, the whole story can never be told.