Neal A. Maxwell Quotes

Some things are beyond human understanding.

Nothing important is completely explicable.

We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.

Why you do something is always kind of a mystery to me.

Life has its dimensions in the mysterious.

Everything is a mystery, ourselves, and all things both simple and humble.

All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed wastepaper baskets, unless we are in touch with that which laughs at all our knowing.

We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.

It is unwise to wish everything explained.

The known is finite, the unknown is infinite.

Our ignorance will always remain greater than our knowledge.

I accept that there may be things far grander and more incomprehensible than we can possibly imagine.

I'll never know everything. My life would be a lot worse if there was nothing I knew the answers about - and if there was nothing I didn't know the answers about.

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

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

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

Let us seek to fathom those things that are fathomable and reserve those things which are unfathomable for reverence in quietude.

You know, we have little bits of understanding, glimpses, a little bit of light here and there, but there's a tremendous amount of darkness, which is a challenge. I think life would be pretty boring if we understood everything. It's better if we don't understand anything and know that we don't, that's the important part.

Our conjectures pass upon us for truths; we will know what we do not know, and often, what we cannot know: so mortifying to our pride is the base suspicion of ignorance.

The world is not always ours to understand.

Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?

There isnt always an explanation for everything.

It is beyond my apprehension.

There could be something incredibly grand and incomprehensible and beyond our present understanding.

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?