Quotes About Enigma

El hombre necesita del misterio como del pan y el aire, necesita de las casas embrujadas, de las personas innombrables, de las calles sin retorno que hay que esquivar.

Oh, Strange! It's always strange the heart is: only it's the skin we ever know.

For the essence of a riddle is to express true facts under impossible combinations.

Overhead, without any fuss, the stars were going out.

He left the unspoken question hanging in the air. How did one annoy a two- kilometre-long black rectangular slab? And just what form would its disapproval take

a real danger by giving it an absurd name, the designations were often facetious: the Godel Gremlin, the Mandelbrot Maze, the Combinatorial Catastrophe, the Transfinite Trap, the Conway Conundrum, the Turing Torpedo, the Lorenz Labyrinth, the Boolean Bomb, the Shannon Snare, the Cantor Cataclysm…

You are rather too fond of talking in riddles,' complained Jeserac.

Magic is just science we don't understand yet

All these potentialities, all these latent powers—we do not possess them, nor do we understand them. Our intellects are far more powerful than yours, but there is something in your minds that has always eluded us.

mystery was piling upon mystery, and that for all his efforts he was getting further and further from any understanding of the truths he sought.

The truth, as always, will be far stranger.

My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplaces of existence. These little problems help me to do so.

I know, my dear Watson, that you share my love of all that is bizarre and outside the conventions and humdrum routine of daily life.

As a rule, the more bizarre a thing is, the less mysterious it proves to be.

To Sherlock Holmes she is always the woman. I have seldom heard him mention her under any other name.

When a man does a queer thing, or two queer things, there may be a meaning to it, but when everything he does is queer, then you begin to wonder

It seems to leave the darkness rather blacker than before.

A hound it was, an enormous coal-black hound, but not such a hound as mortal eyes have ever seen.

I should prefer that you do not mention my name at all in connection with this case, as I choose to be only associated with those crimes which present some difficulty in their solution.

The more outre and grotesque an incident is the more carefully it deserves to be examined, and the very point which appears to complicate a case is, when duly considered and scientifically handled, the one which is most likely to elucidate it.

It is a mistake to confound strangeness with mystery.

You remind me of Edgar Allan Poe's Dupin. I had no idea that such individuals did exist out of stories.

We give you best, Holmes. I believe you are the devil himself.

Yes, the setting (Dartmoor) is a worthy one. If the devil did desire to have a hand in the affairs of men. Sherlock Holmes