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Quotes About Mystery

I suppose that one is always tempted to challenge those who think that they and they alone possess the truth or the way or the key to the mystery.
~ Gore Vidal
Mystery is in the morning, and mystery in the night, and the beauty of mystery is everywhere; but still the plain truth remains, that mouth and purse must be filled.
~ Herman Melville
I don't tell everything. I want the reader to have the feeling that maybe they know the whole truth, but they don't.
~ John Edgar Wideman
We are not masters of the truth which is borne in upon us: it overpowers us.
~ John Lancaster Spalding
The artist needs to understand the truth that lies at the bottom of an enigma.
~ John Maeda
The moon shows the truth of things.
~ Joseph Delaney
To me the question of inspiration is an exercise in hindsight. The truth is inspiration is mysterious at the time. I don't think it's ever a rational process.
~ Julia Leigh
He was a puzzle. And Hyacinth hated puzzles. Well, no, in truth she loved them. Provided, of course, that she solved them.
~ Julia Quinn
He maybe, possibly, said that if he got word of anyone getting in your way, they'd find out whether there was any truth to the rumor about him knowing how to kill a man with paper clips.
~ Julie James
Truth may have been found but might never be known.
~ Kedar Joshi
Truth sounds paradoxical!
~ Laozi
Only the dead know the truth.
~ Leonid Andreyev
The most solid piece of scientific truth I know of is that we are profoundly ignorant about nature.
~ Lewis Thomas
Nobody quite knows the truth about cats purring, but it does seem to be also a self-healing thing for them, which is why, when you take your cat to the vet and it's frightened, it will purr.
~ Margaret Atwood
The truth which may not be told, is the truth which cannot be told.
~ Mary Butts
Truth can be attested by the supernatural, but so can falsehood.
~ Max Anders
Possession of a secret is no guarantee of its truth.
~ Rita Mae Brown
God once declared He was true And then took the veil and withdrew.
~ Robert Frost
The full truth of this odd matter is what the world has long been looking for and the public curiosity is sure to welcome.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
This was the Darker Life, where every truth was written backward.
~ Stephen King
It's been a long time since Sherlock Holmes jumped off that roof - it's time to reveal the truth about what happened between him and the pavement.
~ Steven Moffat
You can never completely know anyone, no matter how well you think you do. There will always be some truth about them you don't ever get to know.
~ Susane Colasanti
It's only the dead who'll tell you the truth.
~ Thomas Adcock
You can't deny reality just because you can't explain it.
~ Toby Jones