A Quote by Horace Walpole
Mystery is the wisdom of blockheads.
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The uplifters are forever running around telling blockheads they would do better if they would believe in themselves. But they already do. That is why they are blockheads.
Wisdom is not the understanding of mystery. Wisdom is accepting that mystery is beyond understanding. That's what makes it mystery.
Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.
Faced with the immensity of the universe, Job realized that there are limits to man's rationalizing, that we cannot find where the cloud of sorrow starts, that all our boasted knowledge is but an island in the vast ocean of mystery, and as the island of knowledge grows larger, the shore line of mystery becomes longer. At the end of his wits, he surrendered in trust to a Higher Wisdom.
Wisdom and deep intelligence require an honest appreciation of mystery.
Wisdom requires not only the investigation of many things, but contemplation of the mystery.
Blame-all and Praise-all are two blockheads.
Good sex is a mystery. Perhaps humping and pumping is not a mystery, but good sex is a mystery, and how human beings become truly intimate remains a mystery.
None but blockheads copy each other.
What the word God means is the mystery really. It's the mystery that we face as humans the mystery of existence, of suffering and of death.
Life is a mystery - mystery of beauty, bliss and divinity. Meditation is the art of unfolding that mystery.
Mystery is in the morning, and mystery in the night, and the beauty of mystery is everywhere; but still the plain truth remains, that mouth and purse must be filled.
The most annoying of all blockheads is a well-read fool.
Clergymen and people who use phrases without wisdom sometimes talk of suffering as a mystery. It is really a revelation.
Your heart's desire is to be told some mystery. The mystery is that there is no mystery.
Wisdom always makes men fortunate: for by wisdom no man could ever err, and therefore he must act rightly and succeed, or his wisdom would be wisdom no longer.
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