Mazes Quotes
116 quotes by 101 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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To expect that the intricacies of science will be pierced by a careless glance, or the eminences of fame ascended without labour, is to expect…
— Samuel Johnson
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The extraordinary development of modern science may be her undoing. Specialism, now a necessity, has fragmented the specialities themselves in a way that makes the…
— William Osler
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It is not that we propose a theory and Nature may shout NO; rather, we propose a maze of theories, and Nature may shout INCONSISTENT.
— Imre Lakatos
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I have tried to show why I believe that the biologist is the most romantic figure on earth at the present day. At first sight…
— John B. S. Haldane
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Knowledge is awareness, and to it are many paths, not all of them paved with logic. But sometimes one is guided through the maze by…
— Louis L'Amour
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Life is a maze in which we take the wrong turning before we have learned to walk.
— Cyril Connolly
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Modern man likes to pretend that his thinking is wide-awake. But this wide-awake thinking has led us into the mazes of a nightmare in which…
— Octavio Paz
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The fact is that relatively few photographers ever master their medium. Instead they allow the medium to master them and go on an endless squirrel…
— Edward Weston
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...the program of scientific experimentation that leads you to conclude that animals are imbeciles is profoundly anthropocentric. It values being able to find your way…
— J M Coetzee
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Too large a proportion of recent "mathematical" economics are mere concoctions, as imprecise as the initial assumptions they rest on, which allow the author to…
— John Maynard Keynes
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I wanted to go higher than Rockefeller Center, which was being erected across the street from Saks Fifth Avenue and was going to cut off…
— Jacqueline Cochran
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These bright roofs, these steep towers, these jewel-lakes, these skeins of railroad line - all spoke to her and she answered. She was glad they…
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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The deep-read is when you get gut-hooked and dragged overboard down and down through the maze of print and find, to your amazement, you can…
— Tim Wynne-Jones
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I always find myself gravitating to the analogy of a maze. Think of film noir and if you picture the story as a maze, you…
— Christopher Nolan
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The summation of human experience is being expanded at a prodigious rate, [but] the means we use for threading through the consequent maze to the…
— Vannevar Bush
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Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk…
— Gautama Buddha
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We are born into a world in which sexual possibilities are narrowly circumscribed. . . . We are programmed by the culture as surely as…
— Andrea Dworkin
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Real obstacles don't take you in circles. They can be overcome. Invented ones are like a maze.
— Barbara Sher
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There are so many things hinted at that will be fun to reveal in depth. For years, fans have made it abundantly and enthusiastically clear…
— James Dashner
Who Wrote These Mazes Quotes
101 authors contributed a total of 116 Mazes Quotes, led by these top contributors: