Believe Quote by Benjamin Wittes

“If writing is thinking and discovery and selection and order and meaning, it is also awe and reverence and mystery and magic....Authors arrive at…

— Toni Morrison

Vague and mysterious forms of speech, and abuse of language, have so long passed for mysteries of science; and hard or misapplied words with…

— John Locke

“This much is already known: for every sensible line of straightforward statement, there are leagues of senseless cacophonies, verbal jumbles and incoherences. (I know…

— Jorge Luis Borges

Here is my theory on this one. If you write things down, if there is a mystery and you try and explain it, once…

— Joey Santiago

The result of the mathematician's creative work is demonstrative reasoning, a proof; but the proof is discovered by plausible reasoning, by guessing.

— George Polya

“Mystery — a word we use to deceive others, to convince them we are "deeper" than they are.”

— Emil M. Cioran

The appeal of writing is primarily the investigation of mystery.

— Joyce Carol Oates

All my words are sort of shaped, all my words, my voice, my gestures, my imagination, are shaped by centuries, really. They are educated…

— Alice Rohrwacher

Scratch the surface of knowledge and mystery bubbles up like a spring. And occasionally, at certain disquieting moments in history (Aristarchus, Galileo, Plank, Einstein),…

— Chet Raymo

A great part of its theories derives an additional charm from the peculiarity that important propositions, with the impress of simplicity on them, are…

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

There is always the danger in scientific work that some word or phrase will be used by different authors to express so many ideas…

— Gilbert N. Lewis

“It is remarkable how often the first interpretations of new evidence have confirmed the preconceptions of its discoverers.”

— John Reader