Gertrude Stein Quotes

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

A novel should be a book of questions, not a book of answers.

For every answer, I like to bring up a question. Maybe I'm related to Alfred Hitchcock or maybe I got to know him too well, but I think life should be that way.

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.

Mystery is underrated, and understanding is overrated.

I wonder why. I wonder why. I wonder why I wonder.

I cannot exaggerate the effect of this marvelous sight on my childish imagination. Day after day I asked myself what is electricity and found no answer. Eighty years have gone by since and I still ask the same question, unable to answer it.

We take comfort, however, that mystery is not a synonym for contradiction.

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.

As you yourself have said, what other explanation can there be?' Poirot stared straight ahead of him. 'That is what I ask myself,' he said. 'That is what I never cease to ask myself.

When there's an authentic mystery, as opposed to just a question being asked, that's what makes you lean forward.

I want to keep people guessing.

Try to guess my answer to that question, however temptingly you pose it.

I am really more interested in questions than in giving answers.

The scientist should treasure the riddles he can't solve, not explain them away at the outset.

Ultimately, it's a pretty confusing moment.

There are no sure answers, only better questions.

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

I want to make people think about certain things or have them ask the question of 'why.' I just want to always keep the people wondering.

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

Life would be unbearably dull if we had answers to all our questions.

Only mystery allows us to live, only mystery.

I don't think writers should write about answers. I think writers should write about questions.

Mystery is delightful, but unscientific, since it depends upon ignorance.

There are lots of questions which have to be answered.