Patty Berg Quotes

But I still couldn't figure out what it all meant. The more I found out, the less I understood.

I'm up and down and round about, Yet all the world can't find me out; Though hundreds have employed their leisure, They never yet could find my measure.

I'm a walking, talking enigma.

Nothing is wholly obvious without becoming enigmatic. Reality itself is too obvious to be true .

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

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.

We live in a bewildering world.

Every clarification breeds new questions.

One mysterious person looking at another mysterious person equals what? Another mystery.

There are many things that I don't understand.

I love the unexplainable. It would be so boring to me if everything could be explained.

We are caught inside a mystery, veiled in an enigma, locked inside a riddle

Mystery is underrated, and understanding is overrated.

I want my life to be mystifying," she declared, although she didn't know what she meant.

The confusion is not my invention. We cannot listen to a conversation for five minutes without being aware of the confusion. It is all around us and our only chance now is to let it in. The only chance of renovation is to open our eyes and see the mess. It is not a mess you can make sense of.

...she looked like the sort of woman most men would want to get to know because they weren't sure what went on inside.

The advantage of the incomprehensible is that it never loses its freshness.

The mystery lies in the irrationality by which you make appearance - if it is not irrational, you make illustration.

I love mysteries. To fall into a mystery and its danger ... everything becomes so intense in those moments. When most mysteries are solved, I feel tremendously let down. So I want things to feel solved up to a point, but there's got to be a certain percentage left over to keep the dream going. It's like at the end of Chinatown: The guy says, 'Forget it, Jake, it's Chinatown.' You understand it, but you don't understand it, and it keeps that mystery alive. That's the most beautiful thing.

The answer is never the answer. What's really interesting is the mystery.

Aren't you an enigma wrapped in a thick coating of contradictions.

I have no idea,' he tells her, and there is such a spark in his eye when he says it, she can tell having no idea is exactly the way he wants it.

The more I see, the less I know.

I’m very attracted to things that I can’t define.

The more I know, the less I understand