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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.
Author: Albert Einstein
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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.
Author: Loren Eiseley
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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.
Author: James Arthur Baldwin
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The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
Author: Eden Phillpotts
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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.
Author: Leonard Bernstein
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No object is mysterious. The mystery is in your eye.
Author: Elizabeth Bowen
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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.'
Author: George Washington Carver
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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.
Author: Sissela Bok
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Religion points to that area of human experience where in one way or another man comes upon mystery as a summons to pilgrimage.
Author: Frederick Buechner
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The workings of the human heart are the profoundest mystery of the universe. One moment they make us despair of our kind, and the next we see in them the reflection of the divine image.
Author: Charles W. Chesnutt
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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.
Author: Rachel Louise Carson
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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.
Author: Tennessee Williams
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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.
Author: Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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Life consists in penetrating the unknown, and fashioning our actions in accord with the new knowledge thus acquired.
Author: Leo Tolstoy
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It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.
Author: Diane Ackerman
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All is mystery; but he is a slave who will not struggle to penetrate the dark veil.
Author: Benjamin Disraeli
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Every human life involves an unfathomable mystery, for man is the riddle of the universe, and the riddle of man in his endowment with personal capacities.
Author: Harry Emerson Fosdick
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Uncertainty and mystery are energies of life. Don't let them scare you unduly, for they keep boredom at bay and spark creativity.
Author: R. I. Fitzhenry
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Mystery is the wisdom of blockheads.
Author: Horace Walpole
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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.
Author: Harry Emerson Fosdick
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You know my method. It is founded upon the observance of trifles.
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle
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The ultimate mystery is one's own self.
Author: Sammy Davis, Jr.
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When you have solved all the mysteries of life you long for death, for it is but another mystery of life.
Author: Kahlil Gibran
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Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand.
Author: Neil Armstrong
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After seven years of marriage, I'm sure of two things -- first, never wallpaper together, and second, you'll need two bathrooms . . . both for her. The rest is a mystery, but a mystery I love to be involved in.
Author: Dennis Miller
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We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount.
Author: Omar Bradley
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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.
Author: The Divine Pymander
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As we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible, but more mysterious.
Author: Albert Schweitzer
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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.
Author: Mickey Spillane
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It is the dim haze of mystery that adds enchantment to pursuit.
Author: Antoine Rivarol
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Mystery is another name for our ignorance; if we were omniscient, all would be perfectly plain.
Author: Tryon Edwards
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What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end.
Author: Jean Paul Richter
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Mystery and innocence are not akin.
Author: Hosea Ballou
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It is hard to say whether the doctors of law or divinity have made the greater advances in the lucrative business of mystery.
Author: Edmund Burke
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All is mystery; but he is a slave who will not struggle to penetrate the dark veil.
Author: Benjamin Disraeli
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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.
Author: Albert Einstein
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