Best Mystery Proverbs
2563 Mystery quotes by 1632 unique authors
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In a bygone era, penalty-takers would put their laces through the ball and threaten to put a permanent bulge in the netting. For reasons that…
— Pete Gill
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Leaving aside the mysteries and the inequities of human talent, brains, taste, and reputations, the matter of art in photography may come down to this:…
— Walker Evans
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Mysteries lie all around us, even in the most familiar things, waiting only to be perceived.
— Wynn Bullock
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...Nature-the word that stands for the baffling mysteries of the Universe. Steadily, unflinchingly, we strive to pierce the inmost heart of Nature, from what she…
— William Crookes
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Every blade of grass, every insect, ant, and golden bee, all so amazingly know their path, though they have not intelligence, they bear witness to…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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The wooing of the Earth thus implies much more than converting the wilderness into humanized environments. It means also preserving natural environments in which to…
— Rene Dubos
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At the beginning of each lecture I say, 'Here's a set of events unexplainable by common sense, and I promise you'll be able to solve…
— Robert Cialdini
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There's a difference between a mystery and a question. Questions demand answers, but a mystery demands something more valuable-explanation.
— Robert Cialdini
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Name me any liquid except our own blood that flows more intimately and incessantly through the labyrinth of symbols we have conceived to make our…
— Clifton Fadiman
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I would sooner pluck one single brand from the burning than explain all mysteries.
— Charles Spurgeon
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Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery.
— Annie Dillard
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The intellectual's hostility to the businessman presents no mystery, as the two have, by function, wholly different standards. While the businessman's motto is the customer…
— Bertrand de Jouvenel
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The sources of deflation are not a mystery. Deflation is in almost all cases a side effect of a collapse of aggregate demand.. a drop…
— Ben Bernanke
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That is the mystery of grace: it never comes too late.
— Francois Mauriac
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Mysteries are not to be solved. They eye goes blind when it only wants to see why.
— William Blake
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Businesses just want to increase their profits; it's up to the government to make sure they distribute enough of those profits so workers have the…
— Jose Mujica
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God must be very great to have created a world that leaves a mystery as to whether he created it.
— Richard Wurmbrand
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To have the ability to withdraw into oneself and forget everything around one when one is creating - What, I think is the only requirement…
— Edvard Grieg
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Eternal Trinity... mystery deep as the sea, You could give me no greater gift than the gift of Yourself. For You are a fire ever…
— St. Catherine of Siena
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The Mother of Christ, who stands at the very center of this mystery...is given as mother to every single individual and all mankind.
— Pope John Paul II
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At one level inspiration is the ability to see beauty and mystery in everything men and women do.
— Ellen Gilchrist
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For a stalk to grow or a flower to open there must be time that cannot be forced; nine months must go by for the…
— Pope John Paul II
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We must open our eyes to admire God who hides and at the same time reveals himself in things and introduces us into the realms…
— Pope John Paul II
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The piercing nail has become a key to unlock the door, that I may see the good will of the Lord. And what can I…
— Bernard of Clairvaux
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In the context of the "great mystery" of Christ and of the Church, all are called to respond - as a bride - with the…
— Pope John Paul II
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