Quotes About Mystery

Hidden knowledge differs little from ignorance.

In ancient times, those who followed the Way did not try to give people knowledge thereof, but kept them ignorant.

Dan Brown, The Lost Symbol

There are no things man was not meant to know. There are, perhaps, things man is too dumb to figure out, but that's a different problem.

These are the mysterious ways of knowledge, power and enlightenment. I can only allude to them in words. I cannot possibly explain what this process is like.

God is unknown; anything we said about God has no validity, because our knowledge about Him is zero, absolutely nothing!

Religion is the recognition that all things are manifestations of a Power which transcends our knowledge.

Who of us knows or can by possibility arrive at a knowledge of the laws that govern our property and lives?

Something unknown is doing we don't know what-that is what our theory amounts to.

To some people, knowledge and science are everything. To me, God is everything I don't know.

The more mysterious, the more imperfect; as darkness is, in comparison with light--so is mystery, in comparison with knowledge.

The Divine is simply that which science has not yet explained. In effect, God = Infinity - Human Knowledge.

Knowledge is much like dust - it sticks to one, one does not know how.

When you're dealing with espionage and covert affairs, sometimes the secret is more exciting than the knowledge.

It is not lawful or proper for you to know everything.

Even subjects that are known are known only to a few

But nothing in India is identifiable, the mere asking of a question causes it to disappear and merge into something else.

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

The knowledge we have of communication among cells does not permit my giving you a sophisticated understanding.

I hear the singing of the lives of women. The clear mystery the offering the pride.

Knowledge is so comforting, but so is mystery.

The only satisfactory thing about death is that our knowledge about it is unsatisfactory.

I refuse to try to explain everything because if you know too much about yourself you become impotent. Better not to know what it is that makes you tick.

I'll be long gone before some smart person ever figures out what happened inside this Oval Office.