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Quotes About Mystery

Love is a strange master, and human nature is still stranger.
~ Edgar Rice Burroughs
However much you knock at nature's door, she will never answer you in comprehensible words.
~ Ivan Turgenev
The moment at which music reveals its true nature is contained in the ancient exercise of the theme with variations. The complete mystery of music is explained right there.
~ Pierre Schaeffer
Extremes in nature equal ends produce; In man they join to some mysterious use.
~ Alexander Pope
Science must acknowledge truthfully how much it doesn't know and leave room for mystery, miracles, and the wisdom of nature.
~ Christiane Northrup
Many secrets of art and nature are thought by the unlearned to be magical.
~ Francis Bacon
You have not known even a fragment of My reality. The full nature of this reality can never be understood by anyone.
~ Sathya Sai Baba
By the sense of mystery I understand the experience of certain places and times when one's whole nature seems to be in touch with a presence, a genius loci, a potency.
~ Richard Aldington
It is impossible to meditate on time and the mystery of nature without an overwhelming emotion at the limitations of human intelligence.
~ Alfred North Whitehead
Nature is a part of our humanity, and without some awareness and experience of that divine mystery man ceases to be man.
~ Henry Beston
Again, I repeat, don't ask questions you don't want answered. Just accept the fact that Acheron is a freak of nature and let it go. (Zarek)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
My paintings are reflections of my own inner mysteries... they all reflect my relationship to my steadiest of companions and muses - nature and animals.
~ Katherine Dunn
How it chanced that a man who reasoned on his premises so ably, should assume his premises so foolishly, is one of the great mysteries of human nature.
~ Thomas B. Macaulay
Who would believe that so small a space could contain the images of all the universe?
~ Leonardo da Vinci
To say God spake or appeared as he is in his own nature, is to deny his Infiniteness, Invisibility, Incomprehensibility.
~ Thomas Hobbes
An old argument with me is that the true religious force in the world is not the church, but the world itself: the mysterious callings of Nature and our responses.
~ Wallace Stevens
She shows us only surfaces but Nature is a million fathoms deep.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
What a piece of work is man!
~ William Shakespeare, Hamlet
The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are inaccessible
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
A journey deep into the Kingdom of Nature is always a mysterious journey, a Sufistic voyage, a spiritual trip!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
The beauty that lies hidden, makes my soul tremble with awe.
~ Patricia Robin Woodruff
I always thought of the stars like a handful of gems that God randomly tossed across the sky, saying, 'Here, go wherever you please.
~ Chelsea Vanderbeek, Forget Me
The Moon is the light of the night.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
Awestruck, Flora stared at the dishevelled sisters with their blazing faces and radiant ragged wings, who smelled of no kin but the wild high air.
~ Laline Paull, The Bees