Mystery Quotes
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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.
R. I. Fitzhenry
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To be conservative.....is to prefer the familiar to the unknown, to prefer the tried to the untried, fact to mystery, the actual to the possible, the limited to the unbounded, the near to the distant, the sufficient to the superabundant, the convenient to...
Michael Oakeshott
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Such is the essential mystery.
Lao Tzu
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As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.
Arthur Christopher Benson
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It is now no mystery that some quite influential ‘philosophers’ were ‘mentally’ ill.
Alfred Korzybski
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Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.
Carl Gustav Jung
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Leisure is a form of silence, not noiselessness. It is the silence of contemplation such as occurs when we let our minds rest on a rosebud, a child at play, a Divine mystery, or a waterfall.
Fulton J. Sheen
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There is a point where in the mystery of existence contradictions meet; where movement is not all movement and stillness is not all stillness; where the idea and the form, the within and the without, are united; where infinite becomes finite, yet not
Rabindranath Tagore
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The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
Oscar Wilde
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The final mystery is oneself.
Oscar Wilde
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The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
Oscar Wilde
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Melanctha Herbert was always losing what she had in all the things she saw. Melanctha was always being left when she was not leaving others. Melanctha Herbert always loved too hard and much too often. She was always full with mystery and subtle movements ...
Gertrude Stein
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Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is God`s gift, that`s why we call it the present.
Joan Rivers
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Strangers are exciting, their mystery never ends. But, there`s nothing like looking at your own history in the faces of your friends.
Ani DiFranco
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Mystery is at the heart of creativity. That, and surprise.
Julia Cameron
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Anybody can direct a picture once they know the fundamentals. Directing is not a mystery, it`s not an art. The main thing about directing is: photograph the people`s eyes.
John Ford
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On writing his first Star Trek book: "People were worried that somehow, by writing this book I was going to give up that mystery of Garak, and Garak now was going to be completely understood, but I think just the opposite happened."
Andrew Robinson
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I think mystery is kind of great. I don`t know anything about Bette Davis or Katharine Hepburn or Ava Gardner - not really - and I like that. I love watching their movies because they`re my personal movie stars. I don`t know what they eat and who their tr...
Rachel Weisz
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Ultimately the atomic physicists - [`Albert Einstein (I)`, Niels Bohr, [Prof. Dr. Martin Heisenberg] - all agreed that science couldn`t answer the mystery of the universe. So I was impressed with all that. Once it gets organized - even if it`s Buddhism or...
Harry Stanton
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As an actor, you have to admit you are a show-off. But with so many magazines like Heat, it`s diminishing the mystery of going to see somebody on the big screen. The less you know about somebody the better.
Ioan Gruffudd
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It`s better not to know so much about what things mean or how they might be interpreted or you`ll be too afraid to let things keep happening. Psychology destroys the mystery, this kind of magic quality. It can be reduced to certain neuroses or certain thi...
David Lynch
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If I`ve learned anything at all, it`s that I know nothing about women. They remain a mystery. But I`ve learned to stop trying to figure them out. There`s no end to the journey, and that`s what makes it so compelling.
Charlie Sheen
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Other comedy teams never generated anything like the hysteria that [Dean Martin] and I did, and that was because we had that X factor--the powerful feeling between us. And it really was an X factor, a kind of mystery.
Jerry Lewis
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[on improvising dialogue as Scott Evil in scenes with Mike Myers in Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997):] "[Dr. Evil`s] whole shhh! thing was made up on the spot. It`s a testament to Mike Myers` brilliance. They just keep going after the wr...
Seth Green
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It`s a really obvious thing to say, but the more people know too much about who you really are, and it`s a fundamental thing, the more the mystery is taken away from the artist, and the harder it is for people to believe that person in a particular role.
Leonardo DiCaprio
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I could become characters and to me that`s what acting was - I didn`t want to shroud it in mystery.
Eric Bana
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The eternal mystery of the universe is its comprehensibility.
Albert Einstein
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Fortunately, somewhere between chance and mystery lies imagination, the only thing that protects our freedom, despite the fact that people keep trying to reduce it or kill it off altogether.
Luis Bunuel
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It did not feel like something that was going to take over my life and destroy it. It felt like a subtle flower instead of a manipulative demon. That`s the mystery of heroin. (USA Today)
Corey Feldman
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I`d prefer to remain a mystery. I never like to give my background and, anyway, I make it all up different every time I`m asked. It`s not just that it`s part of my image not to tell everything, it`s just that I forget what I said the day before, and I hav...
Andy Warhol
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