Inscrutable Quotes

Quotations list about inscrutable, abstruse and arcane citing I Ching, Matthew Arnold and David Riesman

  • The quiet and solitary man apprehends the inscrutable.

    He seeks nothing, holds to the mean, and remains free from entanglements.

    — I Ching
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  • Cruel, but composed and bland,Dumb, inscrutable and grand,So Tiberius might have sat,Had Tiberius been a cat.

    — Matthew Arnold
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  • America is not only big and rich, it is mysterious;

    and its capacity for the humorous or ironical concealment of its interests matches that of the legendary inscrutable Chinese.

    — David Riesman
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  • We have our little theory on all human and divine things.

    Poetry, the workings of genius itself, which, in all times, with one or another meaning, has been called Inspiration, and held to be mysterious and inscrutable, is no longer without its scientific exposition. The building of the lofty rhyme is like any other masonry or bricklaying: we have theories of its rise, height, decline and fall -- which latter, it would seem, is now near, among all people.

    — Thomas Carlyle
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  • To expect that the intricacies of science will be pierced by a careless glance, or the eminences of fame ascended without labour, is to expect a peculiar privilege, a power denied to the rest of mankind; but to suppose that the maze is inscrutable to diligence, or the heights inaccessible to perseverance, is to submit tamely to the tyranny of fancy, and enchain the mind in voluntary shackles.

    — Samuel Johnson
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  • One pits his wits against apparently inscrutable nature, wooing her with ardor but nature is blind justice who cannot recognize personal identity.

    — Charles Brenton Huggins
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  • This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it.

    — Thomas Carlyle
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  • Boy, there's nothing worse than an inscrutable omen.

    — Bill Watterson
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  • This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle;

    wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it.

    — Thomas Dekker
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