“When we mistake what we can know for all there is to know, a healthy appreciation of one's ignorance in the face of a mystery like soil fertility gives way to the hubris that we can treat nature as a machine. Once that leap has been made, one input follows another, so that when the synthetic nitrogen fed to plants makes them more attractive to insects and vulnerable to disease, as we have discovered, the farmer turns to chemical pesticides to fix his broken machine.” KnowsWayGivingHas BeensMadeFacesTurnsMistakeMysteryLandIgnoranceBrokenHealthyDiseaseMachinesTreatsPlantAppreciationVulnerableAttractiveSoilFedsLeapChemicalsFarmersInsectsInputHubrisFertilitySyntheticPesticidesNitrogen Author:Michael Pollan
“make no mistake about it, the detective-story is part of the literature of escape, and not of expression.” StoriesLiteratureMistakeNovelMysteryExpressionDetectivesMystery NovelsDetective Stories Author:Dorothy L. Sayers
“It is a mistake to confound strangeness with mystery.” MistakeMysteryStrangeness Author:Arthur Conan Doyle
“We have fools in all sects, and impostors in most; why should I believe mysteries no one can understand, because written by men who chose to mistake madness for inspiration and style themselves Evangelicals?” MenShouldBelieveInspirationI BelieveMistakeWrittenMysteryAtheismStyleFoolMadnessPositive AtheismShould ISects Book:Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)
“Yesterday is history, but if you don't learn from your past mistakes you will continue to make the same mistakes. Tomorrow isn't a mystery. Go after your goals with every breathe you take, and the future is far from being a mystery. Today isn't a gift. You have to earn it every day.” IfsTodayPastGoalMistakeMysteryTomorrowBreatheYesterdayOur PastYour PastSame MistakesPast MistakesYesterday Is History Author:Steve Kaufman
“If I'm writing by intuition, generally that calculation works itself out. But if I'm writing a mystery, and somebody has to have a reason for doing what he's doing, and it's not anything I can imagine myself wanting to do, things get a little more difficult to write, and careless mistakes are made.” WritingReasonDifficultMistakeImagineMysteryIntuition Author:Cynthia Voigt
“There was a smile dancing on his lips, although it was a wary smile, for the world is a bigger place than a little graveyard on a hill; and there would be dangers in it and mysteries, new friends to make, old friends to rediscover, mistakes to be made and many paths to be walked before he would, finally, return to the graveyard or ride with the Lady on the broad back of her great grey stallion.” WorldLittlesMadeWould BeMistakePathMysteryDangerReturnBiggerDancingSmileLipsHillsBroadsGreyOld FriendsGraveyardNew FriendsMany PathsStallions Book:The Graveyard Book Source: The Graveyard Book
“It is a mistake to confound strangeness with mystery. The most commonplace crime is often the most mysterious because it presents no new or special features from which deductions may be drawn. This murder would have been infinitely more difficult to unravel had the body of the victim been simply found lying in the roadway without any of those outré and sensational accompaniments which have rendered it remarkable. These strange details, far from making the case more difficult, have really had the effect of making it less so.” MayHas BeensBodyLyingFoundDifficultMistakeCasesMysterySpecialEffectsCrimeStrangeMurderVictimDetailsMysteriousFeaturesRemarkableCommonplaceStrangenessDeductionsSensational Author:Arthur Conan Doyle