Iris Apfel Quotes

Savor the mystery, Stephen, we don't get enough of them.

The job is to seek mystery, evoke mystery, plant a garden in which strange plants grow and mysteries bloom. The need for mystery is greater than the need for an answer.

I'm naturally attracted to something I don't understand because when you try to deal with something you don't understand, it opens a door into another world.

The unknown is always interesting.

Science is not about control. It is about cultivating a perpetual condition of wonder in the face of something that forever grows one step richer and subtler than our latest theory about it. It is about reverence, not mastery.

I like the unknown. I like mystery.

Without mysteries, life would be very dull indeed. What would be left to strive for if everything were known?

The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.

It is good to love the unknown.

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.

Anything can make me stop and look and wonder, and sometimes learn.

I think we're always intrigued by things we're not familiar with.

Those who do not know the torment of the unknown cannot have the joy of discovery.

Having wandered some distance among gloomy rocks, I came to the entrance of a great cavern ... Two contrary emotions arose in me: fear and desire--fear of the threatening dark cavern, desire to see whether there were any marvelous things in it.

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

One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge.

I just wish the world was twice as big and half of it was still unexplored.

Most writers are drawn to what is unknown, rather than what is clear in any tale.

Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand.

It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.

The process of delving into the black abyss is to me the keenest form of fascination.

From an early age I was very, very fascinated by uncertainty.

I love the unknown. I love the discovery of what will be happening and just kind of sitting back and not knowing.

We don't know all the answers. If we knew all the answers we'd be bored, wouldn't we? We keep looking, searching, trying to get more knowledge.

If there were no mystery left to explore life would get rather dull, wouldn't it?