Quotes about Enigma

have from all quarters received. Be in your chamber then at that hour, and do not take it amiss if your visitor wear a mask. "This is indeed a mystery

Holmes held out a small chip with the letters NN and a space of clear wood after them.

Women are one of the Almighty's enigmas to prove to men that He knows more than they do.

What is imponderable in the world is greater than what we can handle.

Think that it is quite clear that there must be more than one of them.

That will do," cried Holmes. "What became of him?

His tastes leaned toward the marvellous and the monstrous, and I have heard that his experiments in the direction of the unknown have passed all the bounds of civilization and of decorum.

The question now was, who was the man, and who was it brought him the coronet? "It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

For if anything in the world is desirable, so desirable that even the dull and uneducated herd in its more reflective moments would value it more than silver and gold, it is that a ray of light should fall on the obscurity of our existence, and that we should obtain some information about this enigmatical life of ours, in which nothing is clear except its misery and vanity.

On what he thinks about all day "Women. They are a complete mystery.

There are beauties that are more palpable and explicable, and there are hidden and secret beauties… These hidden beauties are commonly by far the greatest, because the more complex a beauty is, the more hidden it is.

Science can never solve one problem without raising ten more problems.