Quotes about Mystery
A breeze passes in the night. When did it spring up? Whence does it come? Whither is it going? No man knows.
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Men sunk in the greatest darkness imaginable retain some sense and awe of the Deity.
— John Tillotson
They were watching, out there past men's knowing, where stars are drowning and whales ferry their vast souls through the black and seamless sea.
— Cormac McCarthy
God's ways are more than Man's arithmetic.
— Mahatma Gandhi
What men call accident is God's own part.
— Philip James Bailey
When the gods come among men, they are not known.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The man that has anything bountifully laughable about him, be sure there is more in that man than you perhaps think for.
— Herman Melville
For men to tell how human life began Is hard; for who himself beginning knew?
— John Milton
Money and women are the most sought after and the least known about of any two things we have.
— Will Rogers
He was created of a mother whom He created. He was carried by hands that He formed. He cried in the manger in wordless infancy. He, the Word, without whom all human eloquence is mute.
— St. Augustine
Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called the present.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Men think epilepsy divine, merely because they do not understand it. We will one day understand what causes it, and then cease to call it divine. And so it is with everything in the universe.
— Hippocrates