Enigma Quotes
103 quotes by 92 authors
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Society bristles with enigmas which look hard to solve. It is a perfect maze of intrigue.
— Honore de Balzac
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We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself.
— Jean Baudrillard
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Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.
— Winston Churchill
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A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.
— Diane Arbus
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I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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With the strength of his spiritual sight and insight the distance, and as it were the space, around man continually expands: his world grows deeper,…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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If knowing answers to life's questions is absolutely necessary to you, then forget the journey. You will never make it, for this is a journey…
— Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon
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By keenly confronting the enigmas that surround us, and by considering and analyzing the observations that I had made, I ended up in the domain…
— M.C. Escher
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The definitive resolution of the UFO enigma will not come about unless and until the problem is subjected to open and extensive scientific study by…
— Peter A. Sturrock
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It may well be doubted whether human ingenuity can construct an enigma... which human ingenuity may not, by proper application, resolve.
— Edgar Allan Poe
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It has been my firm belief, based on my research and investigations over the past half century, that UFOs and their occupants, which I have…
— George Fawcett
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The abstraction, ostensibly, is simply for me the penetration of something that is more profound in many ways than rigidity of a form. A form…
— Beauford Delaney
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I like to think of myself as the Rutger Hauer of this show Star Trek: The Next Generation. But then I like to think of…
— Brent Spiner
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I'm a pop enigma. I live and breathe every element in life. I rock a bespoke suit and I go to Harold's for fried chicken.…
— Kanye West
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The absurd and legendary devil is the enigma of the Church.
— L. Frank Baum
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Time is an ethereal and sometimes cruel goddess. In her relentless passing, she steals away our youth and vitality, often in ways that seem insignificant…
— Michael Kelleher
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There's something in the human personality which resents things that are clear, and conversely, something which is attracted to puzzles, enigmas, and allegories.
— Stanley Kubrick
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My duty as a member of the Council of the Twelve is to protect what is most unique about the LDS church, namely the authority…
— Dallin H. Oaks
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God knows instantly and effortlessly all matter and all matters, all mind and every mind, all spirit and all spirits, all being and every being,…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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I'm tired of being this solemn poet of the masses, the enigma shrouded in a mystery.
— Michael Stipe
Who Wrote These Enigma Quotes
92 authors contributed a total of 103 Enigma Quotes, led by these top contributors: