“All scientists have found that preconceived notions, dogmas, and all personal prejudice and bias, must be set aside, listening patiently, quietly and reverently to the lessons, one by one, which Mother Nature has to teach, shedding light on that which was before a mystery, so that all who will may see and know. She conveys her truths only to those who are passive and receptive.” KnowsMayLightMotherFoundNatureTeachMysteryListeningLessonsScientistPrejudiceNotionDogmaPassiveBiasMother NatureReceptivePreconceived NotionsShedding Light Author:Luther Burbank
“You can approach 'The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death' in a variety or combination of ways: as a startlingly eccentric hobby; as a series of unresolved murder mysteries; as the manifestation of one woman's peculiar psychic life; as a lesson in forensics; as a metaphor for the fate of women; as a photographic study.” WayStudyFateMysteryLessonsApproachMurderSeriesMetaphorVarietyCombinationManifestationPeculiarHobbiesPsychicsEccentricOne WomanUnexplainedForensicsMurder Mysteries Author:Robert Gottlieb
“life is a tragic mystery. We are pierced and driven by laws we only half understand, we find that the lesson we learn again and again is that of accepting heroic helplessness.” LifeLawLife IsHalfAcceptingMysteryLessonsDrivenTragicHeroicAgain And AgainHelplessness Book:Measure of My Days Source: Measure of My Days
“I am always impressed by the fact that even the tiniest amount of being listened to, the barest suggestion of the possibility of kind treatment, can bring such an immediate rush of emotion. I think this is because we are almost never really listened to. In my work as a psychologist, I am reminded every day of how infrequently we are heard, any of us, or our actions even marginally understood. And one of the ironies of my "listening profession" is its lesson that, in many ways, each of us ultimately remains a mystery to everyone else.” ThinkingWayKindFactsActionEmotionHeardMysteryPossibilityListeningAmountLessonsUnderstoodRemainsProfessionIronyTreatmentImpressedSuggestionsOur ActionsPsychologist Book:The Sociopath Next Door Source: The Sociopath Next Door
“Nothing excites men's curiosity so much as Mystery, concealing things which they desire to know; and nothing so much increases curiosity as obstacles that interpose to prevent them from indulging in the gratification of their desires. Of this the Legislators and Hierophants took advantage, to attract the people to their sanctuaries, and to induce them to seek to obtain lessons from which they would perhaps have turned away with indifference if they had been pressed upon them.” PeopleIfsKnowsMenDesireMysteryLessonsAdvantageIncreaseCuriosityObstaclesIndifferenceGratificationSanctuaryLegislatorsConcealing Book:Morals and Dogma Source: Morals and Dogma
“I want the strangeness and weirdness and incomprehensibility of life that art can reflect so well, but I want it to feel like a mystery that is inviting us in. Sagan's great art lesson for me was generosity of wonder and making curiosity contagious.” WantFeelsWellsArtWonderMysteryLessonsCuriosityGenerosityGreat ArtContagiousInvitingWeirdnessStrangenessSagan Author:Dario Robleto
“The past was nothing to her; offered no lesson which she was willing to heed. The future was a mystery which she never attempted to penetrate. The present alone was significant.” PastMysteryWillingLessonsAwakeningSignificantPenetrateHeed Book:The Awakening Source: The Awakening
“He nodded toward the sub. "This is going to be a blow-off day." I dragged my mind away from magical intrigue. After being homeschooled for most of my life, some parts of the "normal" school world was a mystery. "What does that mean, exactly." "Usually teacher leave subs a lesson plan, telling them what to do. I saw Ms. Terwilliger left. It said, 'Distract them.” WorldMindMeanDoeSaidSchoolLeftSawsTeacherPlansMysteryLessonsNormalBlowIntrigue Author:Richelle Mead