Enigma Quotes

The child is an enigma… He has the highest potentialities, but we do not know what he will be.

There's something in the human personality which resents things that are clear, and conversely, something which is attracted to puzzles, enigmas, and allegories.

It may well be doubted whether human ingenuity can construct an enigma... which human ingenuity may not, by proper application, resolve.

Ajihad: You are an enigma, Eragon, a quandary that no one knows how to solve.

Establish enigmas, not explanations.

The inner machinations of my mind are an enigma.

I am a mystery wrapped in an enigma wrapped in a pita. Why the pita? That counts as another mystery.

Mystique is rare now, isn't it? There aren't that many enigmas in this modern world.

Ma vie est une énigme dont ton nom est le mot. (My life is an enigma, of which your name is the word.)

I'm an enigma, an unknown. You can't really figure out what I'm going to do next. I like it like that.

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.

It is the anonymous "they," the enigmatic "they" who are in charge. Who is "they"? I don't know. Nobody knows. Not even "they" themselves.

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

Failure is an enigma. You worry about it, and it teaches you something.

Were he supreme, were he mighty, were he just, were he good, this God you tell me about, would it be through enigmas and buffooneries he would wish to teach me to serve and know him?

I'm an enigma, an unknown.

I get interested in writers who are enigmatic.

I don't consider myself enigmatic, but I don't spend a lot of time thinking about my public persona.

I'm a conundrum. Or an enigma. I forget which.

Aren't you an enigma wrapped in a thick coating of contradictions.

Truth is a woman. That is why it is enigmatic.

Good photographs aren't just complex. They are enigmatic. Images are beguiling. And the way they play into our psychology, into our visual cortex, is something we still don't understand.

I have this theory, bands with enigmatic lyrics attract crazies.

I'm a walking, talking enigma. We're a dying breed.

Biffy didn't like enigmas - they were out of fashion.