Enigma Quotes

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 key. That key is Russian national interest. (Winston Churchill)
But now I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth. View quote
Umberto Eco
Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. View quote
Winston Churchill
I have always knocked at the door of that wonderful and terrible enigma which is life. View quote
Eugenio Montale
He makes me laugh, Mick! He tended to turn up when we were having lunch and entertain us all. He bought an Enigma machine! I've never worked with a producer who was more famous than everyone put together. View quote
Saffron Burrows
The absurd and legendary devil is the enigma of the Church. View quote
L. Frank Baum
I'm a walking, talking enigma. View quote
Larry David
Each person is an enigma. You're a puzzle not only to yourself but also to everyone else, and the great mystery of our time is how we penetrate this puzzle. View quote
Theodore Zeldin
We are very wrong to think that some fault or other can exclude virtue, or to consider the alliance of good and evil as a monstrosity or an enigma. View quote
Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues
We comprehend the earth only when we have known heaven. Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma. View quote
Joseph Joubert
Intrigued by that enigma, he dug so deeply into her sentiments that in search of interest he found love, because by trying to make her love him he ended up falling in love with her. (Gabriel García Márquez)
In such apparent accidents which finally produce such a decisive influence on one s whole life, one is inclined to recognize the tools of a higher hand. The great enigma of life never becomes clear to us here below. View quote
Carl Friedrich Gauss
There is a strange kind of tragic enigma associated with the problem of racism. No one, or almost no one, wishes to see themselves as racist; still racism persists, real and tenacious. View quote
Albert Memmi
As a single atom man is an enigma: as a whole he is a mathematical problem. As an individual he is a free agent, as a species the offspring of necessity. View quote
William Winwood Reade
Aren't you an enigma wrapped in a thick coating of contradictions. View quote
Sherrilyn Kenyon
What we have here is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. View quote
Douglas Preston
The artist needs to understand the truth that lies at the bottom of an enigma. View quote
John Maeda
I'm tired of being this solemn poet of the masses, the enigma shrouded in a mystery. View quote
Michael Stipe
A filmmaker should never assume he's superior to his subject. I often find that even the simplest topic remains an enigma. The best film portraits not only evoke that enigma but ingest it in a process that renders what's invisible visible. View quote
Damian Pettigrew
The child is an enigma... He has the highest potentialities, but we do not know what he will be. View quote
Maria Montessori
I'm an enigma, an unknown. You can't really figure out what I'm going to do next. I like it like that. (Emmitt Smith)
What I have created here in Italy is neither very big nor profound (in the old sense of the word), but formidable. This summer I painted paintings that are the most profound that exist in the absolute. Let me explain these things somewhat.. .. profoundness as I understand it, and as Nietzsche intended it, is elsewhere than where it has been searched for until now. – My paintings are small (the biggest is 50 x 70 cm), but each of them is an enigma, each contains a poem, an atmosphere (Stimmung) and a promise that you can not find in other paintings. It brings me immense joy to have painted them – when I exhibit them, possibly in Munich this spring, it will be a revelation for the whole world. View quote
Giorgio de Chirico
It may well be doubted whether human ingenuity can construct an enigma ... which human ingenuity may not, by proper application,resolve. View quote
Edgar Allan Poe
The enigma I will not explain – its "dark saying" must be left unguessed, and I warn you that the apparent connection between the variations and the theme is often of the slightest texture. View quote
Edward Elgar
We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself. View quote
Jean Baudrillard