Riddle Quotes

184 quotes by 147 authors

Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. — Winston Churchill
At no period of [Michael Faraday's] unmatched career was he interested in utility. He was absorbed in disentangling the riddles of the universe, at first… — Abraham Flexner
Religious leaders and men of science have the same ideals; they want to understand and explain the universe of which they are part; they both… — Arthur Keith
Molecular genetics, our latest wonder, has taught us to spell out the connectivity of the tree of life in such palpable detail that we may… — Max Delbruck
...Never tell a ticket agent, "As a matter of fact, I DID accept items from persons unknown to me! A nice man in a chadar… — Seanbaby
Finally, two days ago, I succeeded - not on account of my hard efforts, but by the grace of the Lord. Like a sudden flash… — Carl Friedrich Gauss
Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but,… — Ludwig Wittgenstein
Chaos of thought and passion, all confused; Still by himself abused or disabused; Created half to rise, and half to fall; Great lord of all… — Alexander Pope
Riddle me this, riddle me that. Who's afraid of the big black bat? — Jim Carrey
Beauty is a terrible and awful thing! It is terrible because it has not been fathomed, for God sets us nothing but riddles. Here the… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
London is a riddle. Paris is an explanation. — Ernest Hemingway
Everything about woman is a riddle, and everything about woman has a single solution: that is, pregnancy — Friedrich Nietzsche
You cannot put a rope around the neck of an idea: you can not put an idea up against a barracks-square wall and riddle it… — Sean O'Casey
Of course, China is a key to the North Korea if we're going to solve that riddle, but they could also be helpful on Iraq,… — Frank Carlucci
It may be said that myths give to the transcendent reality an immanent, this-worldly objectivity. Myths speak about gods and demons as powers on which… — Rudolf Bultmann
The causes of life's history [cannot] resolve the riddle of life's meaning. — Stephen Jay Gould
It is to the Riddle of the Sphinx that I have devoted fifty years of professional life as an anthropologist. — Gregory Bateson
On what can we now place our hopes of solving the many riddles which still exist as to the origin and composition of cosmic rays? — Victor Francis Hess
Of course the sands of Present Time are running out from under our feet. And why not? The Great Conundrum: 'What are we here for?'… — Brion Gysin
I could say I believe in every drop of rain that . . . Well, I believe life is a Zen koan, that is, an… — Tom Robbins

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