Jim James Quotes

Some things are beyond human understanding.

Nothing important is completely explicable.

When something exceeds your ability to understand how it works, it sort of becomes magical.

Genius is another word for magic, and the whole point of magic is that it is inexplicable.

Art is a mystery. A mystery is something immeasurable.

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

Penetrating so many secrets, we cease to believe in the unknowable. But there it sits nevertheless, calmly licking its chops

There are some things that defy explanation- kind of like. . . you know, you.

A mystery is not a puzzle waiting to be solved, but rather something for which there is no human solution. Mystery's offspring is not frustration but awe, and that sense of awe grows in tandem with knowledge.

The explicable requires the inexplicable. Experience requires the nonexperienceable. The obvious requires the mystical.

Your trouble is, you keep trying to unscrew the unscrutable.

His mind of man, a secret makes I meet him with a start he carries a circumference in which I have no part.

There isnt always an explanation for everything.

My idea of magic doesn't have much to do with stage tricks and illusions. The whole world abounds in magic.

The incomprehensible pleases us, the inexplicable is our friend.

Life is a mystery; that means it cannot be solved. And when all efforts to solve it prove futile, the mystery dawns upon you. Then the doors are open; then you are invited. As a knower, nobody enters the divine; as a child, ignorant, not knowing at all- the mystery embraces you. With a knowing mind you are clever, not innocent. Innocence is the door.

It doesn't stop being magic just because you know how it works.

Some things were beyond understanding.

It was one of those things that had to be experienced to be understood

Most of us can't even begin to imagine.

Humanity is never more sphinxlike than when it is expressing itself.

Just because we don't understand doesn't mean that the explanation doesn't exist.

We live in a world where we think the mysterious is retreating farther and farther from our lives and eventually we will know all there is to know. I love the idea that somehow, there are still things that can be magical.

The secret life of women is to men what the universe is to NASA - unimaginably infinite and completely undiscoverable.

Golf tough guys - like movie tough guys - are almost always inscrutable, just beyond our full understanding.