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Quotes About Puzzles

Ask many questions. Life is a learning process. You are learner. Seek answers to the puzzles of your life.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
Our dreams are little stories or puzzles that we must solve to be free, Sebastian said. He was reading out loud from Wilson's notebook. My dream is me offering me a solution to the conundrum of my life. My dream is me offering me something that I need and my responsibility to myself is to try to understand what it means. Our dreams are a thin curtain between survival and extinction.
~ Miriam Toews
When I was 12 years old, I was obsessed with codes, conspiracies, and secret messages.
~ Alex Hirsch
It isn't just you. It's the whole Galaxy. Pirenne heard Lord Dorwin's idea of scientific research. Lord Dorwin thought the way to be a good archaeologist was to read all the books on the subject—written by men who were dead for centuries. He thought that the way to solve archaeological puzzles was to weigh the opposing authorities. And Pirenne listened and made no objections. Don't you see that there's something wrong with that?
~ Isaac Asimov
Nothing puzzles me more than time and space; yet nothing troubles me less.
~ Charles Lamb
Twentieth-century philosophy is not unique in its ability to confuse puzzles with problems.
~ Susan Neiman
An adventure game is nothing more than a good story set with engaging puzzles that fit seamlessly in with the story and the characters, and looks and sounds beautiful.
~ Roberta Williams
It was used for decades to describe talented computer enthusiasts, people whose skill at using computers to solve technical problems and puzzles was - and is - respected and admired by others possessing similar technical skills.
~ Kevin Mitnick
Children with the growth mindset, on the other hand, couldn't tear themselves away from the hard problems. These were their favorites and these were the ones they wanted to take home. "Could you write down the name of these puzzles," one child asked, "so my mom can buy me some more when these ones run out?
~ Carol S. Dweck
From this, one can make a deduction which is quite certainly the ultimate truth of jigsaw puzzles: despite appearances, puzzling is not a solitary game: every move the puzzler makes, the puzzlemaker has made before; every piece the puzzler picks up, and picks up again, and studies and strokes, every combination he tries, and tries a second time, every blunder and every insight, each hope and each discouragement have all been designed, calculated, and decided by the other.
~ Georges Perec
Here a hint, there a clue, and ever more unanswered questions.
~ Tamara Leigh
A doctor has a stethoscope up to a man's chest. The man asks, "Doc, how do I stand?" The doctor says, "That's what puzzles me!"
~ Henny Youngman
what kind of sociopathic fuck-weasel would do all the puzzles in Highlights in pen.
~ Christopher Moore
Estar ávido en los gatos, nunca sabes cuando encontrarás la respuesta en ellos.
~ Christopher Paolini
And to add confusion to confusion, there was the servant, an unceasing menace, that appeared noiselessly at his shoulder, a dire Sphinx that propounded puzzles and conundrums demanding instantaneous solution.
~ Jack London
He had long since discovered that peaceful sleep could provide the answer to most puzzles, and if not, what did it really matter? Wasn't life just a dewdrop within a dewdrop?
~ James Clavell
You know, people call mystery novels or thrillers 'puzzles.' I never understood that, because when I buy a puzzle, I already know what it is. It's on the box. And even if I don't, if it's a 5,000-piece puzzle of the 'Mona Lisa', it's not like I put the last piece in and go, 'I had no idea it's the 'Mona Lisa'!'
~ Harlan Coben
Women are like puzzles because prior to 1920 neither had the right to vote. Puzzles still don't.
~ Bo Burnham
But it is impossible to divide a cube into two cubes, or a fourth power into fourth powers, or generally any power beyond the square into like powers; of this I have found a remarkable demonstration. This margin is too narrow to contain it.
~ Pierre de Fermat
Mathematical problems, or puzzles, are important to real mathematics (like solving real-life problems), just as fables, stories and anecdotes are important to the young in understanding real life
~ Terence Tao
Between the shadows of the earth and the dark depths of the sky, human life lay slumbering, with all its unsolved puzzles.
~ Theodor Storm
Men were sometimes comforters and often brutes but they were always puzzles
~ Noah Gordon
Georgina hailed from Delaware and had that vexing way of Delaware ladies, delighting in puzzles.
~ Colson Whitehead
collecting secrets was and is crucial to solving foreign policy puzzles.
~ Gregory F. Treverton