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

  Lord Byron

  Evil, Literature

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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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• 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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• 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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• Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are a part of the mystery that we are trying to solve.

  Max Planck

  Nature, Science, Trying

  Max Planck (1933). “Where is science going?”

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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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• The answer is never the answer. What's really interesting is the mystery. If you seek the mystery instead of the answer, you'll always be seeking. I've never seen anybody really find the answer, but they think they have. So they stop thinking. But the job is to seek mystery, evoke mystery, plant a garden in which strange plants grow and mysteries bloom. The need for mystery is greater than the need for an answer.

  Ken Kesey

  Motivational, Jobs, Garden

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

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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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• The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.

  Anais Nin

  Spiritual, Life Lesson, Knowledge

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• Without mysteries, life would be very dull indeed. What would be left to strive for if everything were known?

  Charles de Lint

  Would Be, Dull, Strive

  "The Ivory and the Horn". Book by Charles de Lint, "Where Desert Spirits Crowd the Night", 1996.

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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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  The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Life, Friendship

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.331, Princeton University Press

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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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• There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.There is another theory which states that this has already happened.

  Douglas Adams

  Funny, Education, Humor

  The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy "Fit the Seventh" (radio program) (1978)

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• It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.

  Diane Ackerman

  Life, Beautiful, Country

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “A Natural History of the Senses”, p.309, Vintage

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• The final mystery is oneself.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspiring, Learning, Growth

  Letter to Alfred Douglas, Jan. - Mar. 1897

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• The answer is never the answer. What's really interesting is the mystery.

  Ken Kesey

  Interesting, Answers, Evoke

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

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• Listen to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery it is. In the boredom and pain of it, no less than in the excitement and gladness: touch, taste, smell your way to the holy and hidden heart of it, because in the last analysis all moments are key moments, and life itself is grace.

  Frederick Buechner

  Life, Spiritual, Pain

  FaceBook post by Frederick Buechner from Jun 12, 2014

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• The world is incomprehensible. We won't ever understand it; we won't ever unravel its secrets. Thus we must treat the world as it is: a sheer mystery.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Motherhood, Secret, World

  Carlos Castaneda (1971). “A Separate Reality.Further Conversations with Don Juan”

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• I do not yet know why plants come out of the land or float in streams, or creep on rocks or roll from the sea. I am entranced by the mystery of them and absorbed by their variety and kinds. Everywhere, they are visible yet everywhere occult.

  Liberty Hyde Bailey

  Rocks, Sea, Land

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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 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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