Without mysteries, life would be very dull indeed. What would be left to strive for if everything were known?

Eventually all things are known. And few matter.

nothing would have meaning, because the knowing was itself the meaning; beyond that there was nothing to know.

To understand everything is to hate nothing.

We understand everything; that is why we understand nothing.

When you understand one thing through and through, you understand everything. When you try to understand everything, you will not understand anything.

We learn nothing of very much importance when it can be explained entirely in terms of past experience. If it were possible to understand all things in terms of what we know already, we could convey the sense of color to a blind man with nothing but sound, taste, touch, and smell.

For those who understand, no explanation is needed. For those who do not understand, no explanation is possible.

There is too little mystery in the world; too many people say exactly what they feel or want.

I found everything perfectly clear, and I really understood absolutely nothing.

If if's and and's were pots and pans, there'd be no need for tinkers.

If you have a comprehensive explanation for everything then it decreases uncertainty and anxiety and reduces your cognitive load. And if you can use that simplifying algorithm to put yourself on the side of moral virtue then you’re constantly a good person with a minimum of effort.

Love cannot be explained, yet it explains all.

It’s always easy to explain the unknown by postulating a superhuman and arbitrary will.