Riddle Quotes

184 Riddle quotes by 146 unique authors

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
Man's moral nature is a riddle which only eternity can solve. — Henry David Thoreau
Human nature is full of riddles and contradictions; its very complexity engenders art-and by art I mean the search for something more than simple linear… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The riddle of the age has for each a private solution. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The love of property and consciousness of right and wrong have conflicting places in our organization, which often makes a man's course seem crooked, his… — Abraham Lincoln
Riddle of destiny, who can show What thy short visit meant, or know What thy errand here below? — Charles Lamb
Women, as they are like riddles in being unintelligible, so generally resemble them in this, that they please us no longer once we know them. — Alexander Pope
It is man's destiny to ponder on the riddle of existence and, as a byproduct of his wonderment, to create a new life on this… — Charles Kettering
It is of first-class importance that our answer to the Riddle of the Sphinx should be in step with how we conduct our civilisation, and… — Gregory Bateson
Life's perhaps the only riddle That we shrink from giving up. — W. S. Gilbert
There's a quality of legend about freaks. Like a person in a fairy tale who stops you and demands that you answer a riddle. — Diane Arbus

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