If one looks at a thing with the intention of trying to discover what it means, one ends up no longer seeing the thing itself, but thinking of the question that has been raised. One cannot speak about mystery; one must be seized by it.

—René Magritte

I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.

—Harry Emerson Fosdick

In the moment you are most in awe about all there is in life that you don’t understand, you are closer to understanding it than at any other time.

 —Jane Wagner

There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.

—Douglas Adams

What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?

—Bertolt Brecht

The most beautiful emotion we can experience is the mysterious. It is the power of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead. To know that what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty, which our dull faculties can comprehend only in their most primitive forms — this knowledge, this feeling is at the center of true religiousness. In this sense, and in this sense only, I belong to the rank of devoutly religious men.

—Albert Einstein

The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

 —Oscar Wilde

Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.

—Rumi

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

 –Sir Francis Bacon

Only a fool tests the water with both feet.

–African proverb

Miracles do not happen in contradiction to nature, but only in contradiction to that which is known to us of nature.

—Saint Augustine

At the still point of the turning world…/ Neither from nor towards; / At the still point, there the dance is.

 —T.S. Eliot

When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries of life disappear and life stands explained.

—Mark Twain