Quotes About Mystery

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.

The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious - the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science.

I am satisfied with the mystery of the eternity of life and with the awareness and a glimpse of the marvelous structure of the existing world, together with the devoted striving to comprehend a portion, be it ever so tiny, of the Reason that manifest

Why is it nobody understands me and everybody likes me?

God may be subtle, but he isn't plain mean.

Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust — we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.

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

Each of us visits this Earth involuntarily, and without an invitation. For me, it is enough to wonder at the secrets.

Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for insects as well as for the stars. Human beings, vegetables or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.

God may be subtle, but He isn't mean.

No, this trick won't work...How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love

Something deeper had to be hidden behind things.

The difference between what the most and the least learned people know is inexpressibly trivial in relation to that which is unknown.

The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.

Those people have seen something. What it is I do not know and I can not care to know. (on flying saucers)

To know that what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty, which our dull facilities can comprehend only in the most primitive forms--this knowledge, this feeling, is at the center of true religiousness. In this sense, and in this sense only, I belong to the ranks of the devoutly religious men.

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existence. 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 each day. —"Old Man's Advice to Youth: 'Never Lose a Holy Curiosity.'" LIFE Magazine (2 May 1955) p. 64

The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.

She was a mixture of the unmixable. Not one expert in eighty could have guessed at her breed or breeds.

There was a mysteriously comforting companionship in the dog's presence. Link found himself talking to him from time to time as to a fellow human. And the words did not echo back in eerie hollowness from the walls, as when he had sometimes sought to ease his desolation by talking aloud to himself.

But-where in blue blazes did a thoroughbred collie ever pick up that bulldog grip?

Lo desconocido es un océano, cuya brújula es la consciencia. Pensamiento, meditación, oración, son los grandes señalamientos misteriosos de su aguja.

As we acquire more knowldege, things do not become more comprehensible, but more mysterious.

In the past we have tried to make a distinction between animals which we acknowledge have some value and other which, having none, can be liquidated when we wish. This standard must be abandoned. Everything that lives has value simply as a living thing, as one of the manifestations of the mystery that is life.