First place Quote by Thomas Pynchon

“The Masons are not a secret society... they are a society with secrets”

— Dan Brown

“Some mysteries are meant to stay that way.”

— Truth Devour

“I have a secret handshake, like the Masons. Except mine is like a true secret in that nobody else knows about it, which is…

— Jarod Kintz

“If it were not so, why all the need for secret societies? If we are ruled by an open system run by democratically elected…

— John Coleman

“Oh, how many mysteries there are around us! How wonderful, how absorbingly interesting it will be, when the time comes, to hear the explanation…

— Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey

“We all contain mysteries, especially when seen from the outside.”

— David Levithan

Mysteries, like the Masonic rites, are ones parents and elders are sworn not to reveal to the uninitiated, which include all children. And so…

— Anthony Hecht

“We are caught in a secret history, in a forest of symbols.”

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty

“we have given up our sense of wonder at secrets left to be discovered.”

— Peter Thiel

“These things are mysteries—not because they can’t be explained, but because they only come to us a bit at a time.”

— D.P. Prior

“Perceptions of the modern masons ranged from their being a group of harmless old men who liked to play dress-up... all the way to…

— Dan Brown

“I don't have great mysteries to tell,all I have is a simple path that I try to follow in a dignified manner.”

— Kabir Shah