Mystery Quotes

Quotations about Mystery


I am a great admirer of mystery and magic. Look at this life - all mystery and magic. ~ Harry Houdini

Mystery has its own mysteries, and there are gods above gods. We have ours, they have theirs. That is what's known as infinity. ~ Jean Cocteau

Mystery is another name for our ignorance; if we were omniscient, all would be perfectly plain. ~ Tryon Edwards

One may say the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility. ~ Albert Einstein

The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery. ~ Francis Bacon

Until we accept the fact that life itself is founded in mystery, we shall learn nothing. ~ Henry Miller

We have to stop and be humble enough to understand that there is something called mystery. ~ Paulo Coelho

Mystery and innocence are not akin. ~ Hosea Ballou

A religion without its mysteries is a temple without a God. ~ Robert Hall

The mysteries of Nature and of humanity are not lessened, but increased, by the discoveries of philosophic skill. ~ Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd

The mysterious is always attractive. People will always follow a vail. ~ Bede Jarrett

Mystery hovers over all things here below. ~ Alphonse de Lamartine

Where there is mystery, it is generally supposed that there must also be evil. ~ Lord Byron

Providence is a greater mystery than revelation. ~ Richard Cecil

Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand. ~ Neil Armstrong

The heavens are full of floating mysteries. ~ Thomas Buchanan Read

Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist. ~ Rene Magritte

The ultimate mystery is one's own self. ~ Sammy Davis, Jr.

Mystery is the antagonist of truth. It is a fog of human invention, that obscures truth, and represents it in distortion. ~ Thomas Paine

The mystery of the Bible should teach us, at one and the same time, our nothingness and our greatness; producing humility and animating hope. ~ Henry Melvill

Whoever believes in a God at all, believes in an infinite mystery; and if the existence of God is such an infinite mystery, we can very well expect and afford to have many of His ways mysterious to us. ~ Ichabod Smith Spencer

Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it. ~ Rabindranath Tagore

The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible. ~ Oscar Wilde

A proper secrecy is the only mystery of able men; mystery is the only secrecy of weak and cunning ones. ~ Philip Dormer Stanhope

Mystery such as is given of God is beyond the power of human penetration, yet not in opposition to it. ~ Madame de Stael

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known. ~ Carl Sagan

It is the dim haze of mystery that adds enchantment to pursuit. ~ Antoine de Rivarol

The greatest mystery of existence is existence itself. ~ Deepak Chopra

It's always wonderful to get to know women, with the mystery and the joy and the depth. If you can make a woman laugh, you're seeing the most beautiful thing on God's Earth. ~ Keanu Reeves

All is mystery; but he is a slave who will not struggle to penetrate the dark veil. ~ Benjamin Disraeli

No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye. ~ Elizabeth Bowen

Mystery is not profoundness. ~ Charles Caleb Colton

Mysteries are not necessarily miracles. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Mystery has great charms for womanhood. ~ Sir Walter Scott

There is no religion without mystery. God Himself is the great secret of Nature. ~ Francois August Rene de Chateaubriand,

All things unrevealed belong to the kingdom of mystery. ~ Josiah Gilbert Holland

Mystery is a resource, like coal or gold, and its preservation is a fine thing. ~ Tim Cahill

Mysteries are due to secrecy. ~ Francis Bacon

Mystery is the wisdom of blockheads. ~ Horace

Mystery magnifies danger, as a fog the sun, the hand that warned Belshazzar derived its horrifying effect from the want of a body. ~ Charles Caleb Colton

There is a profound charm in mystery. ~ Paul Chatfield