Comparison Quote by Benjamin Whichcote

There is no greater mystery to me than that of light traveling through darkness.

— Anonymous

As we acquire knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible, but more mysterious.

— Albert Schweitzer

Mystery is more important than knowledge.

— J. J. Abrams

Mystery is not the absence of meaning, but the presence of more meaning than we can comprehend.

— Dennis Covington

Yet mystery and imagination arise from the same source. This source is called darkness ... Darkness within darkness, the gateway to all understanding.

— Laozi

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

— Thomas Paine

The more unknowable the mystery, the more beautiful it is.

— David Lynch

But though every created thing is, in this sense, a mystery, the word mystery cannot be applied to moral truth, any more than obscurity…

— Thomas Paine

In mysteries what we know, and our realization of what we do not know, proceed together; the larger the island of knowledge, the longer…

— Huston Smith

The more we chase away the false mysteries - those things we think we know about ourselves and others - the more mysterious our…

— Sam Keen

Mystery is but another name for ignorance; if we were omniscient, all would be perfectly plain!

— Tryon Edwards

The world is darkness; knowledge is light; but knowledge without truth is a mere shadow.

— Ali ibn Abi Talib