Pope Benedict XVI Quotes

Every time I learn the truth about something, I’m disappointed

Truth can be really powerful stuff if you're not expecting it.

I'm one of those crazy people, if I'm watching the trailer for a movie and I'm really excited by it, I'll turn it off because I don't want to know anything. I want to be surprised because I love that more than knowing anything.

People wouldn't even go into science unless there was something much bigger to be discovered, something that is transcendent.

Thou hast seen nothing yet.

I think with any movie, the more you know, it loses some of its power.

The terrible thing about the quest for truth is that you find it.

Isn't it astonishing that all these secrets have been preserved for so many years just so we could discover them!

There are more secrets, but there is not more secrecy.

Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.

Once people take time to find out who I really am you'd be surprised

Love and knowledge led upwards to the heavens.

If everybody knows all the tricks, it's no more magic.

Love is active penetration of the other person, in which my desire to know is stilled by union. In the act of fusion I know you, I know myself, I know everybody - and I "know" nothing.

Wonder is not precisely knowing.

Anything which throws light upon the Universe, anything which reveals us to ourselves, should be welcome in this world of riddles.

It is said that in death, all things become clear.

Secrets are the blood of life. Every big thing is a secret, even when you know it, because you never know all of it. If you can know everything about anything, it is not worth knowing.

The ending of sorrow is the beginning of wisdom. Knowledge is always within the shadow of ignorance. Meditation is freedom from thought and a movement in the ecstasy of truth. Meditation is explosion of intelligence.

Let us not have a computer psychology that makes us think we know it all. All answers on computers - but no surprises. The challenge of love. God reveals himself through surprises.

The part of my brain that was responsible for creating the world I lived and moved in and for taking the raw data that came in through my senses and fashioning it into a meaningful universe: that part of my brain was down, and out. And yet despite all of this, I had been alive, and aware, truly aware, in a universe characterized above all by love, consciousness, and reality. There was, for me, simply no arguing this fact. I knew it so completely that I ached.

We must have the real thing before we can have a science of a thing.

You wait for nothing if not for the word that will burst from the deep like a fruit among branches.

This is the case with thousands: they appear desirous of knowing the truth, but have not patience to wait in a proper way to receive an answer to their question.

Now that I am dead, I know everything.