英语格言警句_Mystery_(M19)

Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery, like the idle, curved tunnels of leaf miners on the surface of a leaf. We must somehow take a wider view, look at the whole landscape, really see it, and describe what's going on here. Then we can at least wail the right question into the swaddling band of darkness, or, if it es to that, choir the proper praise.

- Annie Dillard

The mystery of existence is the connection between our faults and our misfortunes.

- Madame de Stael

If you are lucky and work very hard, you may someday get to experience freedom from the known.

- Jiddu Krishnamurti

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

- Mark Twain

Man is manifestly not the measure of all things. This universe is shot through with mystery. The very fact of its being, and of our own, is a mystery absolute, and the only miracle worthy of the name.

- Sam Harris

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 prehend it.

- Harry Emerson Fosdick

Humanism is the creed of those who believe that in the circle of enwrapping mystery, men's fates are in their own hands, a faith that for modern man is being the only possible faith.

- John Galsworthy

The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.

- Frank Herbert

Courage, it would seem, is nothing less than the power to overe danger, misfortune, fear, injustice, while continuing to affirm inwardly that life with all its sorrows is good; that everything is meaningful even if in a sense beyond our understanding; and that there is always tomorrow.

- Dorothy Thompson

What is this talked-of mystery of birthBut being mounted bareback on the earth?

- Robert Frost