Mysteries Quotes

To those who ask what the infinitely small quantity in mathematics is, we answer that it is actually zero. Hence there are not so many mysteries hidden in this concept as they are usually believed to be. (Leonhard Euler)
Mystery has its own mysteries, and there are gods above gods. We have ours, they have theirs. That is what's known as infinity. View quote
Jean Cocteau
Without mysteries, life would be very dull indeed. What would be left to strive for if everything were known? View quote
Charles de Lint
The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries. View quote
Iris Murdoch
When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained. View quote
Mark Twain
Nothing is so fatal to the progress of the human mind as to suppose that our views of science are ultimate; that there are no mysteries in nature; that our triumphs are complete, and that there are no new worlds to conquer. View quote
Humphry Davy
Love's mysteries in souls do grow, But yet the body is his book. View quote
John Donne
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
When you have solved all the mysteries of life you long for death, for it is but another mystery of life. View quote
Kahlil Gibran
I have found power in the mysteries of thought,exaltation in the changing of the Muses;I have been versed in the reasonings of men;but Fate is stronger than anything I have known. View quote
Euripides
Childhood has its secrets and its mysteries; but who can tell or who can explain them! (Max Müller)
Within that awful volume lies The mystery of mysteries. View quote
Walter Scott
The more we learn of science, the more we see that its wonderful mysteries are all explained by a few simple laws so connected together and so dependent upon each other, that we see the same mind animating them all. View quote
Olympia Brown
Those who are willing to be vulnerable move among mysteries. View quote
Theodore Roethke
David Ray Griffin has done admirable and painstaking research in reviewing the mysteries surrounding the 9/11 attacks. It is the most persuasive argument I have seen for further investigation [into] that historic and troubling event. View quote
Howard Zinn
One of the deep mysteries to me is our logo, the symbol of lust and knowledge, bitten into, all crossed with the colors of the rainbow in the wrong order. You couldn't dream a more appropriate logo: lust, knowledge, hope and anarchy. View quote
Jean-Louis Gassée
Mysteries once thought to be supernatural or paranormal happenings - such as astronomical or meteorological events - are incorporated into science once their causes are understood. View quote
Michael Shermer
Talk of mysteries! - Think of our life in nature, - daily to be shown matter, to come in contact with it, - rocks, trees, wind on our cheeks! The solid earth! The actual world! The common sense! Contact! Contact! Who are we? Where are we? View quote
Henry David Thoreau
The Hellenistic world was international to a degree, polyglot and inspired by many religious faiths. ...the Greek ideals were pagan and the Hellenistic age witnessed their death struggle against Asiatic and Egyptian mysteries, on the one side, and against Judaism, on the other. View quote
George Sarton
When the wind carries a cry which is meaningful to human ears, it is simpler to believe the wind shares with us some part of the emotion of Being than that the mysteries of a hurricane's rising murmur reduce to no more than the random collision of insensate molecules. View quote
Norman Mailer
Instructors can impart only a fraction of the teaching. It is through your own devoted practice that the mysteries of the Art of Peace are brought to life. (Morihei Ueshiba)
Is it not possible that the chimpanzees are responding to some feeling like awe? A feeling generated by the mystery of water; water that seems alive, always rushing past yet never going, always the same yet ever different. Was it perhaps similar feelings of awe that gave rise to the first animistic religions, the worship of the elements and the mysteries of nature over which there was no control? Only when our prehistoric ancestors developed language would it have been possible to discuss such internal feelings and create a shared religion. View quote
Jane Goodall
Of all the mysteries of the stock exchange there is none so impenetrable as why there should be a buyer for everyone who seeks to sell. View quote
John Kenneth Galbraith
Some mysteries are better off with their throats slit. View quote
Scott Lynch
I am talking about the general psychological health of the species, man. He needs the existence of mysteries, not their solution. View quote
John Fowles