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Quotes About Enigma

Cow - Tanith Low
~ Derek Landy
Knowledge would be fatal. It is the uncertainty that charms one. A mist makes things wonderful.
~ Oscar Wilde
Knowledge is an island surrounded by a sea of mystery.
~ Chet Raymo
Mystery is more important than knowledge.
~ J. J. Abrams
What we know is to what we do not know, as a grain of sand is to the beach.
~ Ivan Panin
Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.
~ Aldous Huxley
That so few understand me is why I am treasured.
~ Laozi
Packed in my skin from head to toe is one I know and do not know.
~ Edwin Muir
God is unknown; anything we said about God has no validity, because our knowledge about Him is zero, absolutely nothing!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Something unknown is doing we don't know what-that is what our theory amounts to.
~ Arthur Eddington
The more mysterious, the more imperfect; as darkness is, in comparison with light--so is mystery, in comparison with knowledge.
~ Benjamin Whichcote
As we acquire more knowledge things do not become more comprehensible but more mysterious.
~ Albert Schweitzer
Knowledge is so comforting, but so is mystery.
~ Deb Caletti, The Last Forever
Leadership is one of the most observed and least understood phenomena on earth.
~ James MacGregor Burns
Beautiful is what we see, More Beautiful is what we know, most Beautiful by far is what we don't
~ Nicolas Steno
As we acquire knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible, but more mysterious.
~ Albert Schweitzer
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
Think of Area X as a murderer we're trying to catch." "Oh great, that's just great, now we've got a detective on staff, too.
~ Jeff Vandermeer
They found what some might call a preternatural silence.
~ Jeff Vandermeer
Some things remain mysterious even if you think about them all the time.
~ Jeff Vandermeer
the Séance & Science Brigade
~ Jeff Vandermeer
Was it a tiny shifting spiral of light?
~ Jeff Vandermeer
Area X was all around them. Area X was contained in no one place or figure.
~ Jeff Vandermeer
I hope to find Area X in Area X.
~ Jeff Vandermeer