Riddles Quotes

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To say that I have found the answer to all riddles of the soul would be inaccurate and presumptuous. But in the knowledge I have… — L. Ron Hubbard
This is one of man's oldest riddles. How can the independence of human volition be harmonized with the fact that we are integral parts of… — Max Planck
You know what your problem is, it's that you haven't seen enough movies - all of life's riddles are answered in the movies. — Steve Martin
All records are riddles, and whatever you may want people to think it's about, it may just be throwing them off. And you don't want… — Tom Waits
In one thing you have not changed, dear friend," said Aragorn: "you still speak in riddles." "What? In riddles?" said Gandalf. "No! For I was… — J.R.R. Tolkien
There is one purpose to life and one only: to bear witness to and understand as much as possible of the complexity of the world-… — Anne Rice
So many things were testing his faith. There was the Bible, of course, but the Bible was a book, and so were Bleak House, Treasure… — Joseph Heller
For myself, I am interested in science and in philosophy only because I want to learn something about the riddle of the world in which… — Karl Popper
No, I won't leave the world--I'll enter a lunatic asylum and see if the profundity of insanity reveals to me the riddles of life. Idiot,… — Soren Kierkegaard
Thus we arrive at the singular conclusion that of all the information passed by our cultural assets it is precisely the elements which might be… — Sigmund Freud
Let us consider that we are all partially insane. It will explain us to each other; it will unriddle many riddles; it will make clear… — Mark Twain
That the sum of a man's life was not where he wound up but in the details that brought him there. That we made mistakes.… — Jodi Picoult
The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Truth has to be given in riddles. People can't take truth if it comes charging at them like a bull. The bull is always killed.… — Chaim Potok
The way sadness works is one of the strangest riddles of the world. — Daniel Handler
A certain person wondered why a big strong girl like me wouldn't keep a job which paid a normal salary. I took my time to… — Maya Angelou
It seems to be very hard for people to live with riddles or to let them live, although one would think that life is so… — Carl Jung
All I wanted, even when I hated you most, was some poor, barren, parched excuse to love you. But you only gave me riddles. — Patricia A. McKillip
The blood of Heaven binds you," said the Queen. "Blood calls to blood, under the skin. But love and blood are not the same." "Riddles,"… — Cassandra Clare
There!" Mars finished writing and threw the scroll at Octavian. "A prophecy. You can add it to your books, engrave it on the floor, whatever."… — Rick Riordan

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