Quotes about Enigma
By a curious coincidence, as each point was recalled, the black wizards of Ashantee would strike up with their hatchets, as in ominous comment on the white stranger's thoughts. Pressed by such enigmas and portents, it would have been almost against nature, had not, even into the least distrustful heart, some ugly misgivings obtruded.
— Herman Melville
That exasperating quality for which we have no name, which certainly is not accuracy, and which is quite the opposite of judgement, yet which catches the mind as brambles do our clothes.
— Hilaire Belloc
The most important part of a story is the piece of it you don't know.
— Barbara Kingsolver
Soli, let me tell you. The most important thing about a person is always the thing you don't know.
— Barbara Kingsolver
There seemed to be no end to the things that could be hiding, waiting it out, right where you thought you could see it all.
— Barbara Kingsolver
We're apt to fall in love with those who are mysterious and challenging to us.
— Helen Fisher
I bent down to read the inscription: GSS—13th Floor—Vault #42—8675309.
— Ernest Cline
GSS—13th Floor—Vault #42—8675309.
— Ernest Cline
Continue your quest by taking the test Yes, but what test? What test was I supposed to take? The Kobayashi Maru? The Pepsi Challenge? Could the clue have been any more vague?
— Ernest Cline
London is a riddle. Paris is an explanation.
— GK Chesterton
Don't you believe that there is in man a deep [spirit] so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?
— St. Augustine
The mystery of one man is too immense and too profound to be explained by another man.
— Henri Nouwen