Mystery Quotes - page 2

Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. (Winston Churchill)
Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are part of nature and therefore part of the mystery that we are trying to solve. View quote
Max Planck
One may say the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility. View quote
Albert Einstein
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. View quote
Martin Luther
Each time dawn appears, the mystery is there in its entirety. View quote
René Daumal
Suicide, moreover, was at the time in vogue in Paris: what more suitable key to the mystery of life for a skeptical society? View quote
Honoré de Balzac
In the deepest heart of all of us there is a corner in which the ultimate mystery of things works sadly. View quote
William James
People quickly grow accustomed to being the slaves of mystery. View quote
Guillaume Apollinaire
The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown, he will give away his energies and his life just to make sure that one note follows another... and leaves us with the feeling that something is right in the world. View quote
Leonard Bernstein
Women. They are a complete mystery. View quote
Stephen Hawking
I do not know if you remember the tale of the girl who saves the ship under mutiny by sitting on the powder barrel with her lighted torch and all the time knowing that it is empty This has seemed to me a charming image of the women of my time. There they were, keeping the world in order by sitting on the mystery of life, and knowing themselves that there was no mystery. (Karen Blixen)
Until we accept the fact that life itself is founded in mystery, we shall learn nothing. View quote
Henry Miller
Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to the enduring fact of mystery. View quote
Henry Miller
I don't like movies where everything happens fast. I like the buildup, the obstacles, the mystery. View quote
Matt Dillon
The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life... Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, for therein lies the secret of immortality. View quote
Joseph Addison
The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do. The mystery which surrounds a thinking machine already surrounds a thinking man. View quote
B. F. Skinner
A woman's body is a dark and monstrous mystery; between her supple thighs a heavy whirlpool swirls, two rivers crash, and woe to him who slips and falls! View quote
Nikos Kazantzakis
Life, he realized, was much like a song. In the beginning there is mystery, in the end there is confirmation, but it's in the middle where all the emotion resides to make the whole thing worthwhile. View quote
Nicholas Sparks
She has seen the mystery hid Under Egypt's pyramid By those eyelids pale and close Now she knows what Rhamses knows. View quote
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
But that's why there are so few women stars today. Pornography has taken away the mystery. View quote
Irene Dunne
I think that the ideal space must contain elements of magic, serenity, sorcery and mystery. (Luis Barragán)
I think it's important to live life with a knowledge of its mystery, and of your own mystery. View quote
Joseph Campbell
Each of us is born into our own mysteries...but the mystery of another might just take us in and embrace us. And then what a sense of homecoming, of belonging! View quote
Alexander McCall Smith
The job of the artist is to deepen the mystery. View quote
Francis Bacon
I agree about Shaw - he is haunted by the mystery he flouts. He is an atheist who trembles in the haunted corridor. View quote
William Butler Yeats