Edward Young Quotes

How can the unknown merit reverence? In other words how can you revere that of which you are ignorant? At the same time, it would be ridiculous to propose that what we know merits reverence. What we know merits any one of a number of things, but it stands to reason reverence isn't one of them. In other words, apart from the known and the unknown, what else is there?

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

Nothing important is completely explicable.

The greatest part cannot know, and therefore they must believe.

What is the future? What is the past? What are we? What is the magic fluid that surrounds us and conceals the things we most need to know? We live and die in the midst of marvels.

I can believe things that are true and things that aren't true and I can believe things where nobody knows if they're true or not.

There's nothing like the unimaginable to make people believe.

A mystery is not a puzzle waiting to be solved, but rather something for which there is no human solution. Mystery's offspring is not frustration but awe, and that sense of awe grows in tandem with knowledge.

I wouldn't have seen it if I hadn't believed it.

Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible.

In order to be a realist you must believe in miracles.

Life is never what it seems - and that’s the great thing about it

The more you play it the less you know about it.

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

The incomprehensible pleases us, the inexplicable is our friend.

No wonder is greater than any other wonder, and if once explained ceases to be a wonder.

gravity, n. I imagine you saved my life. And then I wonder if I'm just imagining it.

We know nothing in reality; for truth lies in an abyss.

This can't be true but I remember it.

We cannot understand. The best is perhaps what we understand least.

Just because you don't understand it doesn't mean it isn't so.

Faith means believing the unbelievable.

Some things were beyond understanding.

Seeing is believing and believing is knowing and knowing beats unknowing and the unknown.