Puzzles Quotes

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While the individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty. You can, for example, never foretell what any one… — Arthur Conan Doyle
God, we are told, is willing to render himself inconsistent and ridiculous, to confound the curiosity of those whom, we are at the same time… — Baron d'Holbach
It puzzles me how they know what corners are good for filling stations. Just how did they know gas and oil was under there? — Dizzy Dean
In a chemistry class there was a guy sitting in front of me doing what looked like a jigsaw puzzle or some really weird kind… — Jon Postel
Always wait for the trigger. The trigger is the final part of the puzzle, the reason you want to shoot. — Jay Maisel
Whatever the medium, there is the difficulty, challenge, fascination and often productive clumsiness of learning a new method: the wonderful puzzles and problems of translating… — Helen Frankenthaler
For example, both humans and chimps have a broken copy of a gene that in other mammals helps make vitamin C. ... It's hard to… — Michael Behe
Sometimes I see players that think, and you can tell they're thinking of the next phrase to play or the next thing to do, the… — Sonny Sharrock
A good problem is something you don't know how to solve. That's what makes it a good puzzle and a good opportunity. — Paul Lockhart
Shattered dreams are never random. They are always a piece in a larger puzzle, a chapter in a larger story. The Holy Spirit uses the… — Larry Crabb
Mystery writing involves solving a puzzle, but high suspense writing is a situation whereby the writer thrusts the hero/heroine into high drama. — Iris Johansen
Thinking about language, while thinking _in_ language, leads to puzzles and paradoxes. — James Gleick
The historian has before him a jigsaw puzzle from which many pieces have disappeared. These gaps can be filled only by his imagination. — Gaetano Salvemini
If you are curious, you'll find the puzzles around you. If you are determined, you will solve them. — Erno Rubik
Finding a photograph is often like picking up a piece from a jigsaw-puzzle box with the cover missing. Thereâ€™s no sense of the whole. Each… — Susan Meiselas
Well, to have some teams come at you like Montreal did, itâ€™s definitely flattering, and I think it was good for me to also set… — Brandon Prust
The greatest determinant of greatness is going to be our ability to collaborate with others who have pieces of the puzzle we don't. — Jay Abraham
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… — Theodore Zeldin
Complexity can be a trap. You can have a ball developing a phrase, inverting it, playing it in different keys and times and all. But… — Paul Desmond
Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were interesting, and fairly serene, but my eighties are passionate. I grow more… — Florida Scott-Maxwell

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