Quotes About Enigma

She went out slowly. The way she did it hadn't been learned at business college.

I love a question I can't answer. It keeps things interesting, even after so many years.

J. Robert Oppenheimer once remarked, "live always at the 'edge of mystery'—the boundary of the unknown.

Science doesn't reduce things, or explain mysteries away; it just discovers stranger and stranger things.

Don't think this means I'm giving you all my secrets. There is more to me than you will ever know.

Intelligence is perhaps but a malady, -a beautiful malady; the oysters's pearl.

Love is linked to the fact that in the end we know nothing about the object that attracts us in the Other, and that at the same time the Other knows nothing about this object that is in him more than himself, i.e. what makes someone attracted to him.

Elizabeth's voice had a door in it. When you opened that door you found another door, and that door opened yet another door. All the doors were nice and led out of her.

Warm fog swirled in the canyon as we gradually descended. A hundred feet in front of us everything was lost in the fog and a hundred feet behind us everything was lost in the fog. We were walking in a capsule between amnesias.

The most beautiful thing we can experience,' he said, 'is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.

The pre-eminent mystery is why anything exists at all.

Sterelny challenges us to explain 'how we can be simultaneously so smart and so dumb'.75

There are some weird things (such as the Trinity, transubstantiation, incarnation) that we are not meant to understand. Don't even try to understand one of these, for the attempt might destroy it. Learn how to gain fulfilment in calling it a mystery.

Life is full of surprises, a wise man said, and would not be worth having if it were not.

there is mystery everywhere, even in a vulgar, urine-scented, suburban depot such as this. You have only to let yourself in for it. You can never know what's coming next. Always there is the chance it will be—miraculous to say—something you want.

Mystery is at the heart of creativity.

concéntrate más en la búsqueda del misterio que en los conocimientos que te faltan.

Mystification is simple; clarity is the hardest thing of all.

Sometimes you find the panel, but it doesn't open; sometimes it opens, and your gaze meets nothing but a mouse skeleton. But at least you've looked. That's the real distinction between people: not between those who have secrets and those who don't, but between those who want to know everything and those who don't. This search is a sign of love I maintain.

Margaret used to say that there were two kinds of women: those with clear edges to them, and those who implied mystery.

From what I did and what I said Let them not seek to find who I was

His thoughts inhabit a different plane from those of ordinary men; the simplest interpretation of that is to call him crazy.

The world's full of strange things. Stuff that doesn't make sense until you really think about it. Happenings like the ones in the old tales.

When one is advised that something is black and white at the same time, it would be better to have no advice at all.