Pete Seeger Quotes

Truth is the torch that gleams through the fog without dispelling it.

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

Give me a mystery - just a plain and simple one - a mystery which is diffidence and silence, a slim little bare-foot mystery: give me a mystery - just one!

The color of truth is gray.

Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece.

Something unknown is doing we don't know what.

Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.

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

The more things remain obscure and mysterious, the more they interest me. I even try to find mystery in things that have none.

I find it very interesting to keep people uncertain about what is what and figure it out as they go.

In my long experience, one thing I know is that truth is elusive.

I don't want people to know what is true all the time and that's what keeps the mystery.

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.

In physics the truth is rarely perfectly clear, and that is certainly universally the case in human affairs. Hence, what is not surrounded by uncertainty cannot be the truth.

I see a lot of fog and a few lights. I like it when life's hidden. It gives you a chance to imagine nice things, nicer than they are.

Being in darkness and confusion is interesting to me.

Truth is a woman. That is why it is enigmatic.

The Sonnets of Shakespeare have the fascination of an autobiography, without its clarity. It is like reading an important document in a cave by the light of matches which keep blowing out.

No question about it: potential is wrapped in great mystery. Like rainbows, which are really circles-we see only the upper halves, the horizon hides the rest-potential never reveals its entirety.

Life is like that. We don't know anything. We call something bad; we call it good. But really we just don't know.

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

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

Mystery hovers over all things here below.

My favorite symbols were those which I didn't understand.

The incomprehensible pleases us, the inexplicable is our friend.