The document contains quotes from various individuals about the importance and benefits of play and games. Many of the quotes discuss how play is essential for learning and development in both children and adults, with some specifically noting how play helps develop problem-solving skills and physical and mental abilities. Others emphasize how play can help people relax, reduce stress, and stay engaged. Overall the document suggests that play through games and other activities has many cognitive, physical, and social benefits across one's lifetime.

1. ThinkinGames“Play is the beginningof knowledge”

2. “Our whole life is solving puzzles” Erno Rubik

3. “Play is the only way the highest intelligence of humankind can unfold”Joseph Chilton Pearce

4. ” It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play without seeing the vital connection between them” Leo F. Buscaglia

5. “ It is one of man's curious idiosyncrasies to create difficulties for the pleasure of resolving them.” Joseph de Maistre

6. Games lubricate the body and the mind. Benjamin Franklin

7. “To be great we need to win games we aren't supposed to win.” Julius Erving

8. “I mean we all played as kids. You play games, you take on different characters, you imitate; the fun and the love of play has never left me.” Kevin Spacey

9. “It should be noted that children at play are not playing about; their games shouldbe seen as their most serious-minded activity.” Michel de Montaigne

10. “We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing”George Bernard Shaw

11. I became an optimist when I discovered that I wasn't going to win any more gamesby being anything else. Earl Weaver

12. “It is better to play than do nothing”Confucius

13. “Play has been man's most useful preoccupation.” CaplanFrank

14. “If animals play, this is because play is useful in the struggle for survival; because play practices and so perfects the skills needed in adult life”Susanna Miller