Quotes about Mystery
Holmes glanced at me and raised his eyebrows sardonically. "With two such men as yourself and Lestrade upon the ground, there will not be much for a third party to find out," he said.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
His tastes leaned toward the marvellous and the monstrous, and I have heard that his experiments in the direction of the unknown have passed all the bounds of civilization and of decorum.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
The question now was, who was the man, and who was it brought him the coronet? "It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
If the government is covering up knowledge of aliens, they are doing a better job of it than they do at anything else.
— Stephen Hawking
On what he thinks about all day "Women. They are a complete mystery.
— Stephen Hawking
What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe?
— Stephen Hawking
After all, it is hard to think of a more important, or fundamental, mystery than what, or who, created and controls the universe.
— Stephen Hawking
Why is there something rather than nothing? Why do we exist? Why this particular set of laws and not some other?
— Stephen Hawking
Twice or thrice had I loved thee before I knew thy face or name, so in a voice, so in a shapeless flame, angels affect us oft, and worshiped be.
— John Donne
If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery of things.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
There are beauties that are more palpable and explicable, and there are hidden and secret beauties… These hidden beauties are commonly by far the greatest, because the more complex a beauty is, the more hidden it is.
— Jonathan Edwards
The idea that the God of the universe would humble himself to touch the lives of any of us is, in the end, far beyond our full comprehension.
— Eric Metaxas