Mary H.K. Choi Quotes

The first thing you should know about people is that you don’t know the first thing about them.

Each of us assumes everyone else knows what HE is doing. They all assume we know what WE are doing. We don't...Nothing is going on and nobody knows what it is. Nobody is concealing anything except the fact that he does not understand anything anymore and wishes he could go home.

Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.

The more you explain it, the more I don't understand it.

Chekhov understood that people are mysterious and can't be reduced to what we nowadays call 'motivation.'

Part of what confuses people in times of upheaval is that you're getting so many different points of view and directions and so and so, how to do this and do that. And a lot of it is written in a language that honestly most people cannot understand.

It's like our relationship is always about the other side that isn't the obvious side.

Any order that can be misunderstood, will be misunderstood

I think, when I meet a person, in general, it's not my habit to conclude anything about people. Not completely. Even people you know well constantly remain open.

I think the things that are most intimate are nameless and shapeless.

It's very human to try to put things into boxes, and it's hard for us to reconcile with grey areas, and yet somehow, that's the area I find the most poetic, the juiciest.

Life is a mystery,but man wants to reduce it to a problem!

Things are really weird around here, and most of us don't know everything. Half of everything.

Mysteries simply are a feast for an active mind. And while in my lifetime I've seen science make extraordinary inroads into solving the most complex questions of life, after all this time I admit that I am thrilled that there are some things that forever will remain a mystery. For example, do I wear a toupee?

Creativity helps us realize that we don't have to understand everything. We can enjoy something -feel it and use it- without ever fully comprehending it.

In the long term everyone traffics in foregone conclusions, and in the short term they just get drunk. This is the way it has always been. Some half-assed ambiguity masquerading as mystery is all anybody's really looking for.

We should not assume; however, that just because something is unexplainable by us, it is unexplainable.

As soon as you think you know Clint Eastwood, you don't know Clint Eastwood.

It was best to believe in all possibilities...there were more mysteries in the world than a man could ever hope to understand.

If it had and answer, it wouldn't really be love, would it?

Because it is so hard, in any life, to believe in what you can’t fully understand.

Our ignorance can be divided into problems and mysteries. When we face a problem, we may not know its solution, but we have insight, increasing knowledge, and an inkling of what we are looking for. When we face a mystery, however, we can only stare in wonder and bewilderment, not knowing what an explanation would even look like.

There are some things that defy explanation- kind of like. . . you know, you.

The sea is an idiom I cannot decipher.