| Author |
Quotes |
| Leo Tolstoy | Life consists in penetrating the unknown, and fashioning our actions in accord with the new knowledge thus acquired. |
| Leonard Bernstein | 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. |
| Loren Eiseley | One 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. |
| Mickey Spillane | 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. |
| Neil Armstrong | Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand. |
| Omar Bradley | We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount. |
| R I Fitzhenry | Uncertainty and mystery are energies of life. Don't let them scare you unduly, for they keep boredom at bay and spark creativity. |
| Rachel Louise Carson | If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement and mystery of the world we live in. |
| Sammy Davis Jr | The ultimate mystery is one's own self. |
| Sissela Bok | 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. |
| Tennessee Williams | 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. |
| The Divine Pymander | 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. |
| Tryon Edwards | Mystery is another name for our ignorance; if we were omniscient, all would be perfectly plain. |
| Edmund Burke | It is hard to say whether the doctors of law or divinity have made the greater advances in the lucrative business of mystery. |
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