Mystery Quotes - Page 5

• When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Life, Depression

  Mark Twain, Bob Blaisdell (2013). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain”, p.31, Courier Corporation

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• ... science and speculation pass into mystery at last.

  William Mountford

  Lasts, Mysterious, Speculation

  William Mountford (1858). “Euthanasy, Or Happy Talk Towards the End of Life”, p.20

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• One (practitioner of science) is the educated man who still has a controlled sense of wonder before the universal mystery, whether it hides in a snail's eye or within the light that impinges on that delicate organ.

  Loren Eiseley

  Eye, Men, Light

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• Life consists in penetrating the unknown, and fashioning our actions in accord with the new knowledge thus acquired.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Our Actions, Accord, New Knowledge

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• The ultimate mystery is one's own self.

  Sammy Davis, Jr.

  Self Esteem, Self Respect, Ultimate

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• Yesterday is history
  Tomorrow's a mystery

  Justin Timberlake

  Yesterday, Yesterday Is History, Tomorrow

  Song: Mirrors

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• No, explanation is not needed - only exclamation, a wondering heart, awakened, surprised, feeling the mystery of life each moment. Then, and only then, you know what truth is. And truth liberates.

  Rajneesh

  Heart, Feelings, Wonder

  "Never Born, Never Died". Book by Rajneesh, 2002.

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• The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown, he will give away his energies and his life just to make sure that one note follows another... and leaves us with the feeling that something is right in the world.

  Leonard Bernstein

  Artist, Keys, Giving

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• We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the sermon on the mount.

  Omar N. Bradley

  History, Atoms, Nuclear

  Speech on Armistice Day, Boston, Mass., 11 Nov. 1948

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• The reproduction of mankind is a great marvel and mystery. Had God consulted me in the matter, I should have advised him to continue the generation of the species by fashioning them out of clay.

  Martin Luther

  Sex, Science, Should Have

  Table Talk 'Of Marriage and Celibacy'

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• Don't become a mere recorder of facts, but try to penetrate the mystery of their origin.

  Ivan Pavlov

  Psychology, Trying, Facts

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• The only words that ever satisfied me as describing nature are the terms used in fairy books, charm, spell, enchantment; they express the arbitrariness of the fact and its mystery.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Nature, Book, Enchantment

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.37, Simon and Schuster

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• Mystery is but another name for ignorance; if we were omniscient, all would be perfectly plain!

  Tryon Edwards

  Ignorance, Names, Stupidity

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• To a man who is uncorrupt and properly constituted, woman always remains something of a mystery and a romance. He never interprets her quite literally. She, on her part, is always striving to remain a poem, and is never weary of bringing out new editions of herself in novel bindings.

  James Parton

  Men, Romance, Strive

  James Parton (1868). “Smoking and Drinking”, p.30

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• Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.

  Richard Ford

  Marriage, Facts, Married

  1986 The Sportswriter, ch.5.

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• Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one's own character to himself.

  Tennessee Williams

  Character, Play, Theatre

  Tennessee Williams, John S. Bak (2009). “New Selected Essays: Where I Live”, p.77, New Directions Publishing

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• Where is the subject that does not branch out into infinity? For every grain of sand is a mystery; so is every daisy in summer, and so is every snow-flake in winter. Both upwards and downwards, and all around us, science and speculation pass into mystery at last.

  William Mountford

  Summer, Winter, Branches

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

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• Mystery magnifies danger, as a fog the sun, the hand that warned Belshazzar derived its horrifying effect from the want of a body.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  War, Fog, Hands

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• A truly feminine woman should always retain a little air of mystery.

  Louis Jourdan

  Air, Littles, Feminine

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• I have sometimes suspected that the only thing that holds no mystery is happiness, because it is its own justification.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Sometimes, Justification

  Jorge Luis Borges (2005). “Brodie's Report: Including the Prose Fiction from In Praise of Darkness”, Penguin Classics

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• The nature of Christ is, I grant it, from one end to another, a web of mysteries; but this mysteriousness does not correspond to the difficulties which all existence contains. Let it be rejected, and the whole world is an enigma; let it be accepted, and we possess a wonderful explanation of the history of man.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Men, Doe, World

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 423, 1895.

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• Mystery is the wisdom of blockheads.

  Horace Walpole

  Blockheads

  Horace Walpole, Peter Cunningham (1857). “The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Oxford”, p.371

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• It was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that engendered religion.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Albert Einstein (2011). “The World As I See It”, p.15, Open Road Media

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• Do you know my friend that each one of us is a dark mystery, a maze of conflicting passions and desire and aptitudes?

  Agatha Christie

  Passion, Dark, Desire

  Agatha Christie (1984). “Lord Edgware Dies”, Berkley

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• Divine sound is the cause of all manifestation. The knower of the mystery of sound knows the mystery of the whole universe.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Sound, Causes, Divine

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