Mystery Quotes

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  Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand.

  Neil Armstrong

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

  "Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon 3D". Documentary, www.imdb.com. 2005.

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• Mysteries lie all around us, even in the most familiar things, waiting only to be perceived.

  Wynn Bullock

  Photography, Lying, Waiting

  Wynn Bullock, Barbara Bullock-Wilson (1984). “Wynn Bullock, photographing the nude: the beginnings of a quest for meaning”, Gibbs Smith

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• Beauty should be shared for it enhances our joys.
  To explore its mystery is to venture towards the sublime.

  Joseph Cornell

  Joy, Sublime, Venture

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• The feeling of awe and sense of wonder arises from the recognition of the deep mystery that surrounds us everywhere, and this feeling deepens as our knowledge grows.

  Anagarika Govinda

  Feelings, Recognition, Wonder

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• Through the discovery of Buchner, Biology was relieved of another fragment of mysticism. The splitting up of sugar into CO2 and alcohol is no more the effect of a 'vital principle' than the splitting up of cane sugar by invertase. The history of this problem is instructive, as it warns us against considering problems as beyond our reach because they have not yet found their solution.

  Jacques Loeb

  Science, Discovery, Alcohol

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• If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery of things.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Gratitude, World And Love, Embracing Love

  1879-80 The Brothers Karamazov, bk.6, ch.3.

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• Give me a mystery - just a plain and simple one - a mystery which is diffidence and silence, a slim little bare-foot mystery: give me a mystery - just one!

  Yevgeny Yevtushenko

  Simple, Feet, Giving

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• The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Journey, Reality

  "Old Man's Advice to Youth: 'Never Lose a Holy Curiosity'". Life magazine, p. 64, May 02, 1955.

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• I don't know the meaning of life. I don't know why we are here. I think life is full of anxieties and fears and tears. It has a lot of grief in it, and it can be very grim. And I do not want to be the one who tries to tell somebody else what life is all about. To me it's a complete mystery.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Grief, Thinking, Anxiety

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• The only mystery about the cat is why it ever decided to become a domestic animal.

  Compton Mackenzie

  Cat, Animal, Decided

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• To become spiritual, you must die to self, and come alive in the Lord. Only then will the mysteries of God fall from your lips. To die to self through self-discipline causes suffering but brings you everlasting life.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Fall, Self

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• At the deepest level, the creative process and the healing process arise from a single source. When you are an artist, you are a healer; a wordless trust of the same mystery is the foundation of your work and its integrity.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Art, Integrity, Healing

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• The need for mystery is greater than the need for an answer.

  Ken Kesey

  Needs, Answers, Sometimes

  "The Art of Fiction". The Paris Review No. 130, Spring 1994.

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• The mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience.

  Frank Herbert

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.35, Penguin

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• We all move on the fringes of eternity and are sometimes granted vistas through fabric of illusion. Many refuse to admit it: I feel a mystery exists. There are certain times, when, as on the whisper of the wind, there comes a clear and quiet realization that there is indeed a presence in the world, a nonhuman entity that is not necessarily inhuman.

  Ansel Adams

  Moving, Wind, Serendipity

  Ansel Adams, Mary Street Alinder (2017). “Ansel Adams: An Autobiography”, p.333, Hachette UK

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• 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.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Inspirational, Life, Faith

  Harry Emerson Fosdick (1958). “Riverside sermons”

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• Where there is mystery, it is generally suspected there must also be evil.

  Lord Byron

  Evil, Literature

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• True thinkers are characterized by a blending of clearness and mystery.

  Victor Hugo

  Thinker, Clearness

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• The past is history. The future is a mystery. The present is a gift.

  Lisa Unger

  Past, Future And Present, Present Future

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• For my part, it is not the mystery of the incarnation which I discover in religion, but the mystery of social order, which associates with heaven that idea of equality which prevents the rich from destroying the poor

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Equality, Order, Ideas

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• Love is a sacred mystery.
  To those who love, it remains forever wordless;
  But to those who do not love, it may be but a heartless jest.

  Khalil Gibran

  Life, Love Is, Forever

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• Do not grow old, no matter how long you live. Never cease to stand like curious children before the Great Mystery into which we were born.

  Albert Einstein

  Children, Long, Age

  Albert Einstein (2013). “Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives”, p.82, Princeton University Press

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• It is the dim haze of mystery that adds enchantment to pursuit.

  Antoine Rivarol

  Fog, Enchantment, Add

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• Everything is a mystery, ourselves, and all things both simple and humble.

  Giorgio Morandi

  Humble, Simple, All Things

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• One must picture everything in the world as an enigma, and live in the world as if in a vast museum of strangeness.

  Giorgio de Chirico

  Inspirational, Live Life, Museums

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