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Mystery Quotes - Page 6

There are places, just as there are people and objects... whose relationship of parts creates a mystery.

Paul Nash, Clare Colvin, South Bank Centre, Towner Art Gallery (1989). “Paul Nash places”

There is no religion without mysteries. God Himself is the great secret of Nature.

"Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 421, 1895.

I think there's something so attractive about mystery.

Seventeen Interview, www.seventeen.com. April 26, 2009.

Plant a garden in which strange plants grow and mysteries bloom.

"The Art of Fiction". The Paris Review No. 130, Spring 1994.

Mystery is more important than knowledge.

"My mysterious, inspiring J. J. Abrams Mystery Box" by John Baichtal, www.wired.com. July 14, 2009.

Knowledge is an island surrounded by a sea of mystery.

Chet Raymo (2005). “Honey from Stone: A Naturalist's Search for God”, p.184, Cowley Publications

Without mysteries, life would be very dull indeed. What would be left to strive for if everything were known?

"The Ivory and the Horn". Book by Charles de Lint, "Where Desert Spirits Crowd the Night", 1996.

We don't have an explanation for everything that happens. We don't control almost anything. And if we are not open to that mystery, life becomes so small.

"Isabel Allende: Despite Terrorism, the World Is a Better Place Now Than Ever Before". Interview with Michael Skafidas, www.huffingtonpost.com.

If our hearts are ready for anything, we are touched by the beauty and poetry and mystery that fill our world.

Tara Brach (2013). “True Refuge: Finding Peace and Freedom in Your Own Awakened Heart”, p.280, Bantam

It's the moon that makes it so still, weaving some mystery.

Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jane Austen, Lewis Carroll, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “The 10 Greatest Books of All Time”, p.274, Google Publishing