Riddle Quotes

184 Riddle quotes by 146 unique authors

We cannot understand what happens in the universe. What is glorious in it is united with what is full of horror. What is full of… — Albert Schweitzer
A major difficulty is that the answer to the Riddle of the Sphinx is partly a product of the answers that we already have given… — Gregory Bateson
There are more riddles in a stone than in a philosopher's head — Damon Knight
The Phoenix riddle hath more wit By us, we two being one, are it. So to one neutral thing both sexes fit, We die and… — John Donne
Thy word remaineth for ever, which word now appeareth unto us in the riddle of the clouds, and through the mirror of the heavens, not… — Saint Augustine
Physically the Celts are terrifying in appearance, with deep sounding and very harsh voices. In conversation they use few words and speak in riddles, for… — Diodorus Siculus
The Sphinx-riddle. Solve it, or be torn to bits, is the decree. — D. H. Lawrence
Every human life involves an unfathomable mystery, for man is the riddle of the universe, and the riddle of man in his endowment with personal… — Harry Emerson Fosdick
It is, I think, particularly in periods of acknowledged crisis that scientists have turned to philosophical analysis as a device for unlocking the riddles of… — Thomas Kuhn
Some cities, like wrapped boxes under Christmas trees, conceal unexpected gifts, secret delights. Some cities will always remain wrapped boxes, containers of riddles never to… — Truman Capote
It's about time you admitted that you are a miraculous work of art. You came into this world as a radiant bundle of exuberant riddles.… — Rob Brezsny
He [Zampano] probably would of insisted on corrections and edits, he was his own harshest critic, but I've come to believe errors, especially written errors,… — Mark Z. Danielewski
'It only put me in Gryffindor,' said Harry in a defeated voice, 'because I asked not to go in Slytherin...' 'Exactly' said Dumbledore, beaming once… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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
We are caught inside a mystery, veiled in an enigma, locked inside a riddle — Terence McKenna
Until we reflect basic kindness in everything we do, our political gestures will be fleeting and fragile. Simple kindness may be the most vital key… — Bo Lozoff
The Big Bang is our modern scientific creation myth. It comes from the same human need to solve the cosmological riddle [Where did the universe… — Carl Sagan
I'm a regular at a hospital in Pennsylvania. The Riddle Hospital in Media, Pennsylvania. — Bam Margera
It was long before I got at the maxim, that in reading an old mathematician you will not read his riddle unless you plough with… — Augustus De Morgan
Herein lies a riddle: How can a people so gifted by God become so seduced by naked power, so greedy for money, so addicted to… — Philip Berrigan
The article goes on later to say, "Hope is not then something for the future alone, a sort of wishful thinking aout what might be;… — Raymond J. de Souza
No; but you came, and found the riddles waiting for you! Indeed you are yourself the only riddle. What you call riddles are truths, and… — George MacDonald
For an answer which cannot be expressed the question too cannot be expressed. The riddle does not exist... — Paul Watzlawick
Our approach to reality, our sense of reality, cannot assume that the text of nature, the book of life, is a cryptogram concealing just a… — Peter Redgrove
I have damaged my intellect trying to imagine why a man should want to invent a repeating clock, and how another man could be found… — Mark Twain

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