Quotes about Mystery

I don't pretend to understand the universe — it's much bigger than I am.

People like you and me never grow old. We never cease to stand like curious children before the great mystery into which we were born.

Subtle is the Lord. Malicious, He is not.

Life is a Mystery, not a problem waiting to be solved.

We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us

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

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. Whoever does not know it and can no longer wonder, no longer marvel, is as good as dead, and his eyes are dimmed.

The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science. Whoever does not know it and can no longer wonder, no longer marvel, is as good as dead, and his eyes are dimmed.

Shearwater sighed, like a whale in the night.

There was a little hill behind the house. You climbed it, and there was the whole sky from horizon to horizon. A hundred and eighty degrees of brute inexplicable mystery. It was a good place for just sitting and saying nothing.

Love is the plummet as well as the astrolabe of God's mysteries, and the pure in heart can see far down into the depths of the divine justice, to catch a glimpse, not indeed of the details of the cosmic process, but at least of its principle and nature. These insights permit them to say [...] that all shall be well, that, in spite of time, all is well, and that the problem of evil has its solution in the eternity, which men can, if they so desire, experience, but can never describe.

Nature is as incomprehensibly appalling as it is lovely and bountiful.