Mystery Quotes

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

Religion, Experience, Fear

One may say the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.
Albert Einstein

It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.
Mahatma Gandhi

Men, Themselves, Fellow

Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.
Winston Churchill

Inside, Russia, Enigma

The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
Oscar Wilde

True, Invisible, Visible

Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is God's gift, that's why we call it the present.
Joan Rivers

God, History, Today

The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic.
Charles Darwin

Beginning, Agnostic, Content

The manual for WordStar, the most popular word-processing program, is 400 pages thick. To write a novel, you have to read a novel - one that reads like a mystery to most people. They're not going to learn slash q-z any more than they're going to learn Morse code. That is what Macintosh is all about.
Steve Jobs

Learn, Write, Read

A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.
Charles Dickens

Human, Wonderful, Fact

The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
Anais Nin

Knowledge, Sense, Wonder

Women. They are a complete mystery.
Stephen Hawking

Women, Complete

The reproduction of mankind is a great marvel and mystery. Had God consulted me in the matter, I should have advised him to continue the generation of the species by fashioning them out of clay.
Martin Luther

Great, God, Him

Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand.
Neil Armstrong

Understand, Desire, Wonder

We have to stop and be humble enough to understand that there is something called mystery.
Paulo Coelho

Humble, Understand, Enough

I do not at all understand the mystery of grace - only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us.
Anne Lamott

Understand, Leave, Grace

Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it.
Rabindranath Tagore

Love, Nothing, Else

Now comes the mystery.
Henry Ward Beecher

Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.
Carl Jung

Often, Hands, Intellect

The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.
Francis Bacon

Job, Artist, Deepen

Every marriage is a mystery to me, even the one I'm in. So I'm no expert on it.
Hillary Clinton

Marriage, Expert

Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Religion, Happiness

I have two young children with autism. What could they have ever done to deserve that? What kind of a God allows the innocent to suffer? It's a mystery. Yet still, I believe in God.
Fred Melamed

God, Children, Done

It's a mystery. That's the first thing that interests me about the idea of God. If there is one, it's mysterious and powerful and awesome to even consider the concept, and you have to take it seriously.
Stephen King

God, Powerful, Awesome

The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.
P. J. O'Rourke

Government, Stop, Works

Suicide, moreover, was at the time in vogue in Paris: what more suitable key to the mystery of life for a skeptical society?
Honore de Balzac

Life, Time, Society

A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is a poverty-stricken day; and a succession of such days is fatal to human life.
Lewis Mumford

Life, Beauty, Truth

Scientific views end in awe and mystery, lost at the edge in uncertainty, but they appear to be so deep and so impressive that the theory that it is all arranged as a stage for God to watch man's struggle for good and evil seems inadequate.
Richard P. Feynman

Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are a part of the mystery that we are trying to solve.
Max Planck

Nature, Science, Trying

Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to the enduring fact of mystery.
Henry Miller

Philosophy, Again, Fact

The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment.
James A. Baldwin

Face, Unknown, Oneself

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