Quotes about Puzzle

My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. I can dispense with artificial stimulants. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation.

Think that it is quite clear that there must be more than one of them.

While the individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty.

On what he thinks about all day "Women. They are a complete mystery.

I do not know the difference between them, for the politics of the Yankees is a puzzle I cannot solve, study it as I may. But as far as seeing through a grindstone goes, I am afraid— Susan shook her head dubiously, that they are all tarred with the same brush.

Where do the noses go? I always wondered where the noses would go.

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!

Dear, dear! How queer everything is to-day! And yesterday things went on just as usual. I wonder if I've been changed in the night? Let me think: was I the same when I got up this morning? I almost think I can remember feeling a little different. But if I'm not the same, the next question is, Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle!

Life is a Mystery, not a problem waiting to be solved.

Intellectual activity is perhaps the greatest pleasure of life; chess is one of the forms of intellectual activity.

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.