1. unknowable - Noun
2. unknowable - Adjective
not knowable
Source: WordNetTheology --An effort to explain the unknowable by putting it into terms of the not worth knowing. H. L. Mencken
Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable. Ambrose Bierce
Music... can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable. Leonard Bernstein
My painting is visible images which conceal nothing... they evoke mystery and indeed when one sees one of my pictures, one asks oneself this simple question 'What does that mean'? It does not mean anything, because mystery means nothing either, it is unknowable. Rene Magritte
The only roads of enquiry there are to think of: one, that it is and that it is not possible for it not to be, this is the path of persuasion (for truth is its companion); the other, that it is not and that it must not be - this I say to you is a path wholly unknowable. Parmenides
For us scientists, on the other wing, life is not quite so simple. Because we learn the unknown. Unlike, hah-hah, our esteemed friends the philosophers, who learn the unknowable. Ken MacLeod