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All is mystery; but he is a slave who will not struggle to penetrate the dark veil. (Quote by - Benjamin Disraeli)

Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one's own character to himself. (Quote by - Tennessee Williams)

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)

No object is mysterious. The mystery is in your eye. (Quote by - Elizabeth Bowen)

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. (Quote by - The Divine Pymander)

We are all, in a sense, experts on secrecy. From earliest childhood we feel its mystery and attraction. We know both the power it confers and the burden it imposes. We learn how it can delight, give breathing space and protect. (Quote by - Sissela Bok)

The only words that ever satisfied me as describing Nature are the terms used in fairy books, charm, spell, enchantment. They express the arbitrariness of the fact and its mystery. (Quote by - Gilbert Keith Chesterton)

When I was young, I said to God, 'God, tell me the mystery of the universe.' But God answered, 'that knowledge is for me alone.' So I said, 'God, tell me the mystery of the peanut.' Then God said, 'Well, George, that's more nearly your size.' (Quote by - George Washington Carver)

It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between. (Quote by - Diane Ackerman)

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. (Quote by - James Arthur Baldwin)

I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it. (Quote by - Harry Emerson Fosdick)

Religion points to that area of human experience where in one way or another man comes upon mystery as a summons to pilgrimage. (Quote by - Frederick Buechner)

It is hard to say whether the doctors of law or divinity have made the greater advances in the lucrative business of mystery. (Quote by - Edmund Burke)

The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper. (Quote by - Eden Phillpotts)

When you have solved all the mysteries of life you long for death, for it is but another mystery of life. (Quote by - Kahlil Gibran)

One (practitioner of science) is the educated man who still has a controlled sense of wonder before the universal mystery, whether it hides in a snail's eye or within the light that impinges on that delicate organ. (Quote by - Loren Eiseley)

Life consists in penetrating the unknown, and fashioning our actions in accord with the new knowledge thus acquired. (Quote by - Leo Tolstoy)

Nobody reads a mystery to get to the middle. They read it to get to the end. If it's a letdown, they won't buy anymore. The first page sells that book. The last page sells your next book. (Quote by - Mickey Spillane)

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. (Quote by - Leonard Bernstein)

Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand. (Quote by - Neil Armstrong)

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. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)

We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount. (Quote by - Omar Bradley)

Mystery and innocence are not akin. (Quote by - Hosea Ballou)

The ultimate mystery is one's own self. (Quote by - Sammy Davis, Jr.)

What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end. (Quote by - Jean Paul Richter)

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