Enigma Quotes

103 Enigma quotes by 90 unique authors

Society bristles with enigmas which look hard to solve. It is a perfect maze of intrigue. — Honore de Balzac
We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself. — Jean Baudrillard
Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. — Winston Churchill
A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know. — Diane Arbus
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
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
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
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
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
It may well be doubted whether human ingenuity can construct an enigma... which human ingenuity may not, by proper application, resolve. — Edgar Allan Poe
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
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… — Unknown Author
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
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. It's… — Kanye West
The absurd and legendary devil is the enigma of the Church. — L. Frank Baum
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… — Unknown Author
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
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
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
I'm tired of being this solemn poet of the masses, the enigma shrouded in a mystery. — Michael Stipe
True affection is a body of enigmas, mysteries and riddles, wherein two so become one that they both become two. — Thomas Browne
I am always wandering around in enigmas. There are young people who constantly come to tell me: you, too, are making Op Art. I haven't… — M.C. Escher
The child is an enigma… He has the highest potentialities, but we do not know what he will be. — Maria Montessori
The freedom of patient speech is necessary if the doctor is to get clues about the medical enigma before him. If the patient is inhibited,… — Jerome Groopman
A choice which confronts every one of us at every moment is this: Shall we permit our fellow men to know us as we now… — Sidney Jourard

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