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• Until we accept the fact that life itself is founded in mystery, we shall learn nothing.

  Henry Miller

  Life, Humility, Literature

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• Wisdom requires not only the investigation of many things, but contemplation of the mystery.

  Jeremy Narby

  Contemplation, Investigation

  Jeremy Narby (1999). “The Cosmic Serpent”, p.124, Penguin

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• Life is a Mystery, not a problem waiting to be solved.

  Albert Einstein

  Life, Waiting, Problem

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• The clock is running. Make the most of today. Time waits for no man. Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That's why it is called the present.

  Alice Morse Earle

  Inspirational, Running, Time

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• In short, there are mysteries of science and of soul that will never be understood no matter how hard we measure, no matter how strongly we believe, no matter how deep our think tanks and how high our aspirations. But as anyone will tell you—for we all know this within our hearts—the impossible happens and grand cosmic mysteries are solved on a regular basis, although most of the time the solutions lead to even greater mysteries.

  Neal Shusterman

  Believe, Heart, Thinking

  Neal Shusterman (2011). “Neal Shusterman's Skinjacker Trilogy: Everlost; Everwild; Everfound”, p.970, Simon and Schuster

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• We injure mysteries, which are matters of faith, by any attempt at explanation in order to make them matters of reason. Could they be explained, they would cease to be mysteries; and it has been well said that a thing is not necessarily against reason because it happens to be above it.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Order, Matter, Reason

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”

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• Every mystery solved brings us to the threshold of a greater one.

  Rachel Carson

  Threshold, Greater

  Paul Brooks, Rachel Carson (1972). “The house of life: Rachel Carson at work”

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• Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Love, Inspiration, Funny Relationship

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.455, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.

  Francis Bacon

  Life, Beauty, Beautiful

  "ELAC’s VPAM: A Game Changer for L.A. Art Scene" by Max Benavidez, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 25, 2011.

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• The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Family, Happiness

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.31, First Avenue Editions

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• Those who dwell, as scientists or laymen, among the beauties and mysteries of the earth, are never alone or weary of life.

  Rachel Carson

  Inspirational, Peace, Nature

  Rachel Carson (2011). “The Sense of Wonder”, p.41, Open Road Media

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• There is no religion without mysteries. God Himself is the great secret of Nature.

  François-René de Chateaubriand

  Secret

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 421, 1895.

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• Whoever believes in a God at all, believes in an infinite mystery; and if the existence of God is such an infinite mystery, we can very well expect and afford to have many of His ways mysterious to us.

  Ichabod Spencer

  Believe, Way, Mysterious

  ICHABOD SPENCER (1855). “A PASTOR'S SKETCHES”, p.331

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• If I believe in anything, it is in the dark night of the soul. Awe is my religion, and mystery is its church.

  Charles Simic

  Believe, Dark, Night

  Charles Simic (1997). “Orphan Factory: Essays and Memoirs”

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• How many people make themselves abstract to appear profound. The most useful part of abstract terms are the shadows they create to hide a vacuum.

  Joseph Joubert

  People, Profound, Shadow

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• We need the tonic of wildness...At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be indefinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable. We can never have enough of nature.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Sea, Land, Environmental

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Thoreau on Nature: Sage Words on Finding Harmony with the Natural World”, p.38, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• We all walk in mysteries. We are surrounded by an atmosphere about which we still know nothing at all.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Atmosphere, Walks, Stills

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• Mysteries are due to secrecy.

  Francis Bacon

  Secrecy, Dues

  Francis Bacon (1838). “The Works of Lord Bacon: With an Introductory Essay”, p.265

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• Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.

  Carl Jung

  Leadership, Sexy, Thoughtful

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• Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.

  Winston Churchill

  Russia, Riddle, Enigma

  Radio broadcast, 1 Oct. 1939

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• The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic.

  Charles Darwin

  Inspirational, Atheist, Insightful

  Charles Darwin (2010). “The Works of Charles Darwin, Volume 29: “Erasmus Darwin” by Ernest Krause, with a Preliminary Notice by Charles Darwin; “The Autobiography of Charles Darwin” Edited by Nora Barlow; and Consolidated Index”, p.124, NYU Press

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• One cannot help but be in awe when
  [one] contemplates the mysteries of eternity,
  of life, of the marvelous structure of reality.

  Albert Einstein

  Science, Reality, Awe And Wonder

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.26, St. Martin's Press

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• That great chain of causes, which, linking one to another, even to the throne of God Himself, can never be unraveled by any industry of ours.

  Edmund Burke

  Causes, Thrones, Chains

  Edmund Burke (1854). “The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke: A vindication of natural society”, p.143

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• A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.

  Charles Dickens

  Cities, Reflecting Upon, Profound

  A Tale of Two Cities bk. 1, ch. 3 (1859)

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• Every human life involves an unfathomable mystery, for man is the riddle of the universe, and the riddle of man in his endowment with personal capacities.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Men, Capacity, Human Life

  Harry Emerson Fosdick (1971). “The Real Problems of Real People: Solutions for Christians”

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