Top 39 Quotes About Enigmas
#1. There is a ... matter - much more valuable and divine than natural philosophy ... On this matter I must speak to you in enigmas.
Plato
#2. A stunning survey of the latest evidence for intelligent life on Mars. Mac Tonnies brings a thoughtful, balanced and highly accessible approach to one of the most fascinating enigmas of our time.
Herbie Brennan
#3. Biffy didn't like enigmas - they were out of fashion.
Gail Carriger
#4. Women are one of the Almighty's enigmas to prove to men that He knows more than they do.
Ellen Glasgow
#5. Artwork is not thought up in consciousness and then, as a separate phase, executed by the hand. The hand surprises us creates and solves problems on its own. Often, enigmas that baffle our brains are dealt with easily, unconsciously, by the hand.
Stephen Nachmanovitch
#6. Ibrahim shook his head. "Women. You are enigmas."
"No, we're just always waiting for men to say the proper thing. Now and then you do. And upon such occasion, we rejoice.
Leanna Renee Hieber
#7. For her, reading was directly linked to pleasure, not to knowledge or enigmas or constructions or verbal labyrinths ...
Roberto Bolano
#8. I've put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that is the only way of insuring one's immortality.
James Joyce
#9. If we understood the enigmas of life there would be no need for art.
Albert Camus
#10. CALM is the bottom of my sea: who would guess that it hides droll monsters!
Unmoved is my depth: but it sparkles with swimming enigmas and laughters.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#11. With the strength of his spiritual sight and insight the distance, and as it were the space, around man continually expands: his world grows deeper, ever new stars, ever new images and enigmas come into view.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#12. Is it possible, after all, that in spite of bricks and shaven faces, this world we live in is brimmed with wonders, and I and all mankind, beneath our garbs of commonplaceness, conceal enigmas that the stars themselves, and perhaps the highest seraphim, can not resolve?
Herman Melville
#13. Women were supposed to be the enigmas, but men? Moody, brooding bastards, the lot of them. A woman with PMS had nothing on a man. Where women might get hormonal once a month, men suffered their own brand of PMS on a daily basis.
- Faith
Maya Banks
#14. If knowing answers to life's questions is absolutely necessary to you, then forget the journey. You will never make it. For this is a journey of unknowables
of unanswered questions, enigmas, incomprehensibles, and most of all, things unfair.
Jeanne Marie Bouvier De La Motte Guyon
#15. He is fond of enigmas, of conundrums, of hieroglyphics; exhibiting in his solutions of each a degree of acumen which appears to the ordinary apprehension praeternatural.
Edgar Allan Poe
#16. Pattern-finding is the purpose of the mind and the construct of the universe. There are an infinite number of patterns, some of which are known; those still unknown hold the key to unresolved enigmas and paradoxes.
Agnes Denes
#17. Society bristles with enigmas which look hard to solve. It is a perfect maze of intrigue.
Honore De Balzac
#19. Mystique is rare now, isn't it? There aren't that many enigmas in this modern world.
Benedict Cumberbatch
#20. The possibility of one particular photographer's pictures lying around the corner is never realized until the photographer is there. It's one of the enigmas of photography.
Alex Webb
#21. Were he supreme, were he mighty, were he just, were he good, this God you tell me about, would it be through enigmas and buffooneries he would wish to teach me to serve and know him?
Marquis De Sade
#22. ...the perfect enigmas, the ones that, at first glance, were inexplicable. I liked to see how - in a disorganized but predictable world - an organized but totally unpredictable way of reasoning emerged.
Pablo De Santis
#23. There's something in the human personality which resents things that are clear, and conversely, something which is attracted to puzzles, enigmas, and allegories.
Stanley Kubrick
#24. I am always wandering around in enigmas. There are young people who constantly come to tell me: you, too, are making Op Art. I haven't the slightest idea what that is, Op Art. I've been doing this work for thirty years now.
M.C. Escher
#25. Hamlet, Kiekegaard, Kafka are ironists in the wake of Jesus. All Western irony is a repetition of Jesus' enigmas/riddles, in amalgam with the ironies of Socrates.
Harold Bloom
#26. True affection is a body of enigmas, mysteries and riddles, wherein two so become one that they both become two.
Thomas Browne
#27. The more you gaze into her eyes, the more you will see what you want, what is actually inside your heart. And then she will suddenly vanish and you will wonder how you lost her. So you must close the door on your emotions. Eros is not a painter and he often spoils our work.
Michael Harrington
#28. The newspaper warns us about terrorist anthrax bombs and virulent new strains of meningitis, and the only comfort newspapers can offer is a coupon for 20 cents off on underarm deodorant.
Chuck Palahniuk
#29. The knots in the wood can't be untied.
Marty Rubin
#30. I would rather trust a woman's instinct than a man's reason.
Stanley Baldwin
#31. The Ego uses the mind as a means of spiritual search. It is through the mind that the Ego intends to understand what is beyond mind and forms. The mind in this way prepares the mental image of enlightenment, seeking, happiness etc.
Frank M. Wanderer
#32. He's so powerful. Who knows maybe he's advanced past eating
Priya Ardis
#34. Yes. My mother was and still is a Folk Singer. She was very involved in the political movements for Unions and Civil rights. She sang with Pete Seeger among others. My father was an Actor.
Vicki Sue Robinson
#35. Ye werena the first lass I kissed," he said softly. "But I swear you'll be the last.
Diana Gabaldon
#36. Honestly, he blamed Jace and Colt for that little nagging feeling in his heart that insisted something was missing. Was he lonely? Hell, he didn't know.
Kindle Alexander
#37. There are a lot of bottlenecks to getting published. Publishers are only one of them. Having the time is another one. Feeling entitled is another one.
Denise Mina
#38. What if you have all the pieces and puzzle still doesn't fit?
Marty Rubin
#39. However great a man's natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
