100 Puzzling Quotes
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Famous Puzzling Quotes
The world is a very puzzling place. If you're not willing to be puzzled, you just become a replica of someone else's mind. — Noam Chomsky
A good puzzle, it's a fair thing. Nobody is lying. It's very clear, and the problem depends just on you. — Erno Rubik
The problems of puzzles are very near the problems of life. — Erno Rubik
Our whole life is solving puzzles. — Erno Rubik
We are caught inside a mystery, veiled in an enigma, locked inside a riddle — Terence McKenna
There's something in the human personality which resents things that are clear, and conversely, something which is attracted to puzzles, enigmas, and allegories. — Stanley Kubrick
Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle. — Lewis Carroll
If you are curious, you'll find the puzzles around you. If you are determined, you will solve them. — Erno Rubik
Every film is a puzzle really, from an editorial point of view. — Walter Murch
Every piece of the puzzle that doesn't fit gets you closer to the answer. — Cynthia Lewis
It is one of man's curious idiosyncrasies to create difficulties for the pleasure of resolving them. — Joseph De Maistre
Paradoxical, things that seem obvious, broad consensus — Howard Marks
Mathematics began to seem too much like puzzle solving. Physics is puzzle solving, too, but of puzzles created by nature, not by the mind of man. — Maria Goeppert-Mayer
Something very satisfying about thinking very hard about complicated pieces and then suddenly understanding the simple whole. — Greg Brockman
The contradiction so puzzling to the ordinary way of thinking comes from the fact that we have to use language to communicate our inner experience, which in its very nature transcends linguistics. — D.T. Suzuki
Short Puzzling Quotes
- I wanna make a jigsaw puzzle that's 40,000 pieces. And when you finish it, it says 'go outside.' — Demetri Martin
- A healthy diet is the foundation of good health, but it’s not the only piece of the puzzle. —
- Putting the pieces of the puzzle together with each other is going to get us to the truth faster. — Cathie Wood
- I like to think of my son as having an extra puzzle piece rather than missing one. — Stuart Duncan
- Colors must fit together as pieces in a puzzle or cogs in a wheel. — Hans Hofmann
- The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity. — Doug Horton
- Missing pieces do more than complete the puzzle, they fill in an empty space. — Luanne Rice
- The British Constitution has always been puzzling and always will be. — Elizabeth II
- 'I beg your pardon?' Alice said with a puzzled air. 'I'm not offended,' said Humpty Dumpty. — Lewis Carroll
- I enjoy walking my dog and completing crossword puzzles. — Brian Jacques
Mind Puzzling Quotes
If the rose puzzled its mind over the question how it grew, it would not have been the miracle that it is. — Jack Butler Yeats
Just as dogs love to chew bones, the mind loves to get its teeth into problems. That's why it does crossword puzzles and builds atom bombs. — Eckhart Tolle
The language of art is powerful to those who understand it, and puzzling to those who do not. What we do know is that here was the modern human mind at work, spinning symbolism and abstraction in a way that only Homo sapiens is capable of doing. — Richard Leakey
I lay puzzle as I backtrack to earlier times, Nothing's equivalent to the New York state of mind — Nas
I think when I started to write The Mysterious Benedict Society that I had that kind of thing in mind - the notion of having to be able to solve puzzles and riddles because enormous stakes rode upon your ability to do that. — Trenton Lee Stewart
A logical theory may be tested by its capacity for dealing with puzzles, and it is a wholesome plan, in thinking about logic, to stock the mind with as many puzzles as possible, since these serve much the same purpose as is served by experiments in physical science. — Bertrand Russell
A mind is like a puzzle; you must unlock it to read its hidden secrets. — Melissa de la Cruz
[Nutrition] is a huge piece of the puzzle. It's not just about working hard and being physical. It's about being smart and mindful of what's going in and out of our bodies. — Kerri Walsh
Children astound me with their inquisitive minds. The world is wide and mysterious to them, and as they piece together the puzzle of life, they ask 'Why?' ceaselessly. — John C. Maxwell
For me, a garden is peace of mind. It immediately takes my mind off the thing I'm puzzling about in my work and gives me repose. — Henry Louis Gates
Puzzle Piece Quotes
Everyone carries a piece of the puzzle. Nobody comes into your life by mere coincidence. Trust your instincts. Do the unexpected. Find the others. — Timothy Leary
There are no extra pieces in the universe. Everyone is here because he or she has a place to fill, and every piece must fit itself into the big jigsaw puzzle. — Deepak Chopra
Science and art sometimes can touch one another, like two pieces of the jigsaw puzzle which is our human life, and that contact may be made across the boderline between the two respective domains. — M. C. Escher
Life is a puzzle. Every piece fits together to create who we are, what we do, how we feel. Every experience shapes us into who we will eventually become. — Kyle
Families are like puzzles. They fit together in a certain way, and if one piece is missing, it throws everything off. — Richard Schiff
The world is the geologist's great puzzle-box; he stands before it like the child to whom the separate pieces of his puzzle remain a mystery till he detects their relation and sees where they fit, and then his fragments grow at once into a connected picture beneath his hand. — Louis Agassiz
To me acting is like a jigsaw puzzle. The jigsaw puzzle is of the sky and all the pieces are blue. Out of this you have to create a human being and put it together. — Henry Winkler
The Secure Fence Act, which authorizes the construction of 700 miles of security barriers along the southwest border, has now been sent to President Bush for his signature. This piece of legislation is an important piece of the border security puzzle. — Randy Neugebauer
Finding a photograph is often like picking up a piece from a jigsaw-puzzle box with the cover missing. There’s no sense of the whole. Each image is a mysterious part of something not yet revealed. — Susan Meiselas
People may be said to resemble not the bricks of which a house is built, but the pieces of a picture puzzle, each differing in shape, but matching the rest, and thus bringing out the picture. — Felix Adler
Jigsaw Puzzles Quotes
Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits. In time, a pair invents its own commonwealth, complete with anthems, rituals, and lingos-a cult of two with fallible gods. — Diane Ackerman
I don't think any word can explain a man's life. — Orson Welles
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
Not every puzzle is intended to be solved. Some are in place to test your limits. Others are, in fact, not puzzles at all. — Vera Nazarian
So now it is time to disassemble the parts of the jigsaw puzzle or to piece another one together, for I find that, having come to the end of my story, my life is just beginning. — Conrad Veidt
My books are not about different components that fit together like pieces in a jigsaw puzzle, it's about creating the space around the components, which is almost as important as the components themselves. And that space changes and blends depending upon what the components are. — Richard Grossman
No, absolutely not, writing doesn't have to be like a jigsaw puzzle, it can be a very linear undertaking. — Guillermo Cabrera Infante
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 of thing. He told me he was writing a computer program. — Jon Postel
Doing Made In Heaven was like assembling a jigsaw puzzle, but I wouldn't have put my seal of approval on it if I hadn't thought it was up to standard. — Brian May
Have you seen the new Polish jigsaw puzzle? One piece. — Henny Youngman
People Writing About Puzzling
| Name | Quotes | Likes |
|---|---|---|
 Erno Rubik |
26 | 408 |
 Lewis Carroll |
371 | 3008 |
 Noam Chomsky |
1449 | 8118 |
 Terence McKenna |
674 | 3263 |
 Stanley Kubrick |
111 | 1172 |
 Walter Murch |
14 | 176 |
More Puzzling Quotes
I've put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that's the only way of insuring one's immortality. — James Joyce
Every two years the American politics industry fills the airwaves with the most virulent, scurrilous, wall-to-wall character assassination of nearly every political practitioner in the country - and then declares itself puzzled that America has lost trust in its politicians. — Charles Krauthammer
Transfer the point of concentration to some object outside of yourself - another person, a puzzle, a broken plate that you are gluing. — Sanford Meisner
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 pain of shattered dreams to help us discover our desire for God, to help us begin dreaming the highest dream. They are ordained opportunities for the Spirit to awaken, then to satisfy our highest dream. — Larry Crabb
It really puzzles me to see marijuana connected with narcotics dope and all of that stuff. It is a thousand times better than whiskey. It is an assistant and a friend. — Louis Armstrong
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 man will be up to, but you can say with precision what an average number will be up to. Individuals vary, but percentages remain constant. So says the statistician. — Arthur Conan Doyle
Spontaneous events are puzzles in the mind that you have to figure out on the go. It’s a part of living in the present. You have to be at your best and be alert to potential mistakes, because in that moment, the mind and its thinking process are one. You have to be ready to mold yourself to whatever life gives you. To be ready, you must be alert within. — Wim Hof
As a rule, said Holmes, the more bizarre a thing is the less mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is the most difficult to identify. — Arthur Conan Doyle
The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counterintuitive. It may contradict deeply held prejudices. It may not be consonant with what we desperately want to be true. But our preferences do not determine what's true. — Carl Sagan
To study the meaning of man and of life — I am making significant progress here. I have faith in myself. Man is a mystery: if you spend your entire life trying to puzzle it out, then do not say that you have wasted your time. I occupy myself with this mystery, because I want to be a man. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
When asked by a grumpily puzzled professor what "rules" he followed, Debussy is said to have retorted, mon plaisir "whatever I please" and he further claimed that more was to be gained by watching the sun rise than by listening to the Pastoral Symphony. Although such remarks were intended to shock, they contain a core of Debussyan verity. — Claude Debussy
What song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women, though puzzling questions, are not beyond all conjecture. — Thomas Browne
Magic is not about having a puzzle to solve. It's about creating a moment of awe and astonishment. And that can be a beautiful thing. — David Blaine
I think that at the end of the day I'm drawn to a certain level of ambiguous storytelling that requires hard thought and work in the same way that the New York Times crossword puzzle does: Sometimes you just want to put it down or throw it out the window, but there's a real rewarding sense if you feel like you've cracked it. — Damon Lindelof
By amusing myself with all these games, all this nonsense, all these picture puzzles, I became famous... I am only a public entertainer who has understood his time. — Pablo Picasso
I have long been puzzled by the entrenched mentality, and often enforced practice, of longer work hours and less sleep. — Matthew Walker
The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth, and it goes away. Puzzling. — Robert M. Pirsig
It is presentation which lifts the card trick from the level of the commonplace puzzle to the status of an unforgettable and inexplicable mystery. — Jean Hugard
The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth, and it goes away. Puzzling. — Robert M. Pirsig
Most investors are pretty smart. Yet most investors also remain heavily invested in actively managed stock funds. This is puzzling. The temptation, of course, is to dismiss these folks as ignorant fools. But I suspect these folks know the odds are stacked against them, and yet they are more than happy to take their chances. — Jonathan Clements
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
Golf is a puzzle without an answer. I've played the game for 40 years and I still haven't the slightest idea how to play. — Gary Player
You wonder what I am doing? Well, so do I, in truth. Days seem to dawn, suns to shine, evenings to follow, and then I sleep. What I have done, what I am doing, what I am going to do, puzzle and bewilder me. Have you ever been a leaf and fallen from your tree in autumn and been really puzzled about it? That’s the feeling. — T. E. Lawrence
As an artist, you've got to see the mess. That's what we do. We get a human being, and it's like putting together a puzzle. And the puzzle has got to be a mixture, a multifaceted mixture of human emotions, and not all of it is going to be pretty. — Viola Davis
What I try to do is write a story about a detective rather than a detective story. Keeping the reader fooled until the last, possible moment is a good trick and I usually try to play it, but I can't attach more than secondary importance to it. The puzzle isn't so interesting to me as the behavior of the detective attacking it. — Dashiell Hammett
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