Mystery Quotes

Dark energy is perhaps the biggest mystery in physics.

The artist and the fundamentalist both confront the same issue, the mystery of their existence as individuals.

It's still a mystery to me, but even though my mother was like an older sister to me, I kind of put her up on a pedestal.

It is a truth of human nature that we can ponder life's mysteries for only so long before we lose interest and move on to something else.

any mystery writer is both magician and moralist ... two species of artist in short supply.

Any disease that is treated as a mystery and acutely enough feared will be felt to be morally, if not literally, contagious.

Avoid all mystery. There is no mystery in religion.

There's a kind of mystery to our being and from my point of view, regarding my own parents and their parents, I'd as soon let it lie than find out who my mother's father was.

The great mystery to me is how restaurant critics think they can get away with doing their job without anybody noticing who they are.

[This legendary Amazonian substance is] a cybernetic transdimentional medium of some sort that is generated out of the mysteries of the physiology of the human body.

Let others probe the mystery if they can.Time-harried prisoners of Shall and Will -The right thing happens to the happy man.

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.

I love to lose myself in a mystery to pursue my reason to an O altitudo.

There are depths in man that go to the lowest hell, and heights that reach the highest heaven, for are not both heaven and hell made out of him, everlasting miracle and mystery that he is.

The mystery of a person, indeed, is ever divine to him that has a sense for the godlike.

Truth never envelops itself in mystery, and the mystery in which it is at any time enveloped is the work of its antagonist, and never of itself.

I don't think the problem is that people don't read enough mystery books, but that people don't read.

You know, what a producer does is one of the great mysteries in life, so anyone can be one.

Yet, much of what lies beneath the ocean's surface remains a mystery, and our nation continues to rely on a confused, antiquated system of ocean governance.

American foreign policy is now one huge big mystery. Simply put, the administration is trying to lead the world with a feel-good foreign policy.

People are the most fascinating mysteries I've ever read.

If there is no mystery, for the artist, to solve inside of his art, then there's no point in it....for me, every act of the art of solving a mystery.

Marshall Jevons is the pioneer for integrating economics and detective fiction, and The Mystery of the Invisible Hand is another fine effort in this genre.

A miniskirt shows just enough to cause some mystery. What these young women lack is mystery so the old women have to have it.

God has given us the fascination and mystery of irrational numbers, as one aspect of a rich world

Life's something we already understand. Death is a mystery.

When two mouths, made sacred by love, draw near to each other to create, it is impossible, that above that ineffable kiss there should not be a thrill in the immense mystery of the stars.

The so-called mysteries of quantum mechanics are in its philosophical interpretation, not in its mathematics.

I don't want to lose too much of the mystery by hammering every detail to death.

Voiceover work reminds me of old-time radio. When I was little I used to sneak and stay up at night and listen to Mystery Radio Theater - I loved all those old radio plays.

Sure as the most certain sure, plumb in the uprights, well entretied, braced in the beams, Stout as a horse, affectionate, haughty, electrical, I and this mystery here we stand.

There is a compulsion that is perhaps the heart of life's meanings, this marvelous mystery of blood ties that brings joy whenever a new family member comes on the scene.

Perhaps some day, modern people will learn that mystery is not the prison of the mind of people, it is their home.

I think different religions are different doors to the same house. Sometimes I think the house exists, and sometimes I don’t. It’s the great mystery. (Steve Jobs)

Within that awful volume lies The mystery of mysteries!

I feel awed by the mystery of being both so finite and yet so infinite, so much and so little, so conscious and yet, so coincidental.

In one sense the doctrine of the trinity is a mystery that we will never understand fully.

If you have form'd a circle to go into, Go into it yourself, and see how you would do. They said this mystery never shall cease: The priest promotes war, and the soldier peace.

I agree about Shaw - he is haunted by the mystery he flouts. He is an atheist who trembles in the haunted corridor.

The uncontrollable mystery on the bestial floor.

Marvelous as may be the power of my dog to understand my moods, deathless as his affection and fidelity, his mental state is as unsolved a mystery to me as it was to my remotest ancestor.

In the deepest heart of all of us there is a corner in which the ultimate mystery of things works sadly.

How can the moribund old man reason back to himself the romance, the mystery, the imminence of great things with which our old earth tingled for him in the days when he was young and well?

Patriotism is a mystery-intangible, invisible, and yet eternal.

Plutus himself, That knows the tinct and multiplying med'cine, Hath not in nature's mystery more science Than I have in this ring.

Belief in mysteries, any manner of mysteries, is the only lasting luxury in life.

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.

Let me keep my distance, always, from those who think they have the answers.Let me keep company always with those who say "Look!" and laugh in astonishment, and bow their heads.

Faith and love are apt to be spasmodic in the best minds. Men live the brink of mysteries and harmonies into which they never enter, and with their hands on the door-latch they die outside.

There are more things in heaven and earth...than are dreamt of by your philosophy.