Quotes about Enigma

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.

Raffiniert ist der Herr Gott, aber boshaft ist er nicht. God is subtle, but he is not malicious.

The most incomprehensible fact is that we comprehend at all.

I don't know. There isn't always an explanation for everything.

Why is a raven like a writing desk?

But if I'm not the same, the next question is, 'Who in the world am I?' Ah, that's the great puzzle!