The most beautiful thing we can experience is
the mysterious. It is the source of all true art
and science. He to whom this emotion is
a stranger, who can no longer pause to
wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good
as dead: his eyes are closed.
?Albert Einstein
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
The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely
because it is invested with so much of oneself.
It is a mystery, containing, like all
mysteries, the possibility of torment.
?James Arthur Baldwin
The universe is full of magical things patiently
waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
?Eden Phillpotts
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
No object is mysterious.
The mystery is in your eye.
?Elizabeth Bowen
When I was young, I said to God, 'God,
tell me the mystery of the universe.'
But God answered, 'that knowledge is for
me alone.' So I said, 'God, tell me the
mystery of the peanut.' Then God said,
'Well, George, that's more nearly your size.'
?George Washington Carver
We are all, in a sense, experts on secrecy.
From earliest childhood we feel its mystery
and attraction. We know both the power it confers
and the burden it imposes. We learn how it can
delight, give breathing space and protect.
?Sissela Bok
Religion points to that area of human
experience where in one way or another
man comes upon mystery
as a summons to pilgrimage.
?Frederick Buechner
The workings of the human heart are the
profoundest mystery of the universe.
One moment they make us despair of our kind,
and the next we see in them the
reflection of the divine image.
?Charles W. Chesnutt
If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense
of wonder, he needs the companionship of
at least one adult who can share it,
rediscovering with him the joy, excitement
and mystery of the world we live in.
?Rachel Louise Carson
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
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 Keith Chesterton
Life consists in penetrating the unknown,
and fashioning our actions in accord
with the new knowledge thus acquired.
?Leo Tolstoy
It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery,
but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.
?Diane Ackerman
All is mystery; but he is a slave who will not
struggle to penetrate the dark veil.
?Benjamin Disraeli
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
Uncertainty and mystery are energies of life.
Don't let them scare you unduly, for they
keep boredom at bay and spark creativity.
?R. I. Fitzhenry
Mystery is the wisdom of blockheads.
?Horace Walpole
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
You know my method. It is founded
upon the observance of trifles.
?Arthur Conan Doyle
The ultimate mystery is one's own self.
?Sammy Davis, Jr.
When you have solved all the mysteries of
life you long for death, for it
is but another mystery of life.
?Kahlil Gibran
Mystery creates wonder and wonder is
the basis of man's desire to understand.
?Neil Armstrong
After seven years of marriage, I'm sure of two things --
first, never wallpaper together, and second, you'll
need two bathrooms . . . both for her. The rest is a
mystery, but a mystery I love to be involved in.
?Dennis Miller
We have grasped the mystery of the atom
and rejected the Sermon on the Mount.
?Omar Bradley
The union of the Word and the Mind produces
that mystery which is called Life... Learn
deeply of the Mind and its mystery,
for therein lies the secret of immortality.
?The Divine Pymander
As we acquire more knowledge, things
do not become more comprehensible,
but more mysterious.
?Albert Schweitzer
Nobody reads a mystery to get to the middle.
They read it to get to the end.
If it's a letdown, they won't buy anymore.
The first page sells that book.
The last page sells your next book.
?Mickey Spillane
