Enigma Quotes
103 quotes by 90 authors
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True affection is a body of enigmas, mysteries and riddles, wherein two so become one that they both become two.
— Thomas Browne
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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
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The child is an enigma… He has the highest potentialities, but we do not know what he will be.
— Maria Montessori
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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
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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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In Náhuatl, the language of the Aztec world, one key word for poet was 'tlamatine,' meaning 'the one who knows,' or 'he who knows something.'…
— Edward Hirsch
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Each person is an enigma. You're a puzzle not only to yourself but also to everyone else, and the great mystery of our time is…
— Theodore Zeldin
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A stunning survey of the latest evidence for intelligent life on Mars. Mac Tonnies brings a thoughtful, balanced and highly accessible approach to one of…
— Herbie Brennan
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Women are one of the Almighty's enigmas to prove to men that He knows more than they do.
— Ellen Glasgow
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If Murakami's novels are grand enigmas, his stories are bite-sized conundrums. (...) The great pleasure of the new story collection, Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman, is…
— Unknown Author
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It is not science which leads to unbelief but rather ignorance. The ignorant man thinks he understands something provided that he sees it every day.…
— Jan Potocki
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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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This book is unique. I know of no other which so artfully tackles two of the greatest mysteries of modern science, quantum mechanics, and consciousness.…
— George Greenstein
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Ah, woman. She is an enigma. An anomaly of perfection & irony. She can lure angels into her arms & give birth to a nation…
— Ace Antonio Hall
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If we understood the enigmas of life there would be no need for art.
— Albert Camus
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He makes me laugh, Mick! He tended to turn up when we were having lunch and entertain us all. He bought an Enigma machine! I've…
— Saffron Burrows
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No power of genius has ever yet had the smallest success in explaining existence. The perfect enigma remains.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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A turkey is more occult and awful than all the angels and archangels. In so far as God has partly revealed to us an angelic…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma: but perhaps there is a…
— Winston Churchill
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We are caught inside a mystery, veiled in an enigma, locked inside a riddle
— Terence McKenna
Who Wrote These Enigma Quotes
90 authors contributed a total of 103 Enigma Quotes, led by these top contributors: