Richard Matheson Quotes

When something exceeds your ability to understand how it works, it sort of becomes magical.

It's as simple as something that nobody knows.

What is divine? It is simply that which man has not been able to understand. Once you do, it loses its divinity.

Just because we don't understand doesn't mean that the explanation doesn't exist.

Some things are beyond human understanding.

Anyone who isn't confused really doesn't understand the situation.

The future is hidden by a dark impenetrable veil, and yet we struggle to pierce through it.

What is divine? Simply that which man has not yet been able to understand. Once understood, it ceases to be divine.

I'm an enigma, an unknown. You can't really figure out what I'm going to do next. I like it like that.

For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all.

In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance.

We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand.

I'm a walking, talking enigma.

There are many things that I don't understand.

The thing I find really scary about ghosts and demons is that you don't really know what they are or where they are. They're not very well understood. You don't know what they want from you. So it's the kind of thing you don't even know how to defend yourself against. Anything that's unknown and mysterious is very scary.

It's a disease we have that we think that everything is explainable. It's a merchandising idea because you can sell explanations and cures for everything, but it doesn't work like that. It's very hard to understand everything.

What is imponderable in the world is greater than what we can handle.

I don't feel it incumbent on me to make sense of everything.

Whoever believes he knows why everything is as it is has hold of nothing.

I begin to see an object when I cease to understand it.

They understand but a little who understand only what can be explained.

I do not know everything; still many things I understand.

Understanding that rests in what it does not understand is the finest.

It is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.

Unexplained, obscure matters are regarded as more important than explained, clear ones.