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1. "Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves."

Rainer Maria Rilke

2. "Obstacles are what a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal."

Henry Ford

Quotations about: Dreams and Desires

3. "Poor people have problems; rich people have challenges."

Anon.

Quotations about: Richness and Money

4. "Let problems make you better, not bitter."

Anon.

Quotations about: Good and Evil

5. "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever."

Chinese proverb

Quotations about: Wisdom and Stupidity

6. "Why do people always expect authors to answer questions? I am an author because I want to ask questions. If I had answers, I'd be a politician."

Eugene Ionesco

Quotations about: Politics and Diplomacy

7. "The human race never solves any of its problems. It merely outlives them."

David Gerrold

Quotations about: Human

8. "Information can tell us everything. It has all the answers. But they are answers to questions we have not asked, and which doubtless don't even arise."

Jean Baudrillard, "Cool Memories"

Quotations about: Science and Technology -:- Knowledge, Ignorance

9. "That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent answer."

Jacob Bronowski, "The Ascent of Man"

Quotations about: Science and Technology

10. "We are continually faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems."

John W. Gardner

Quotations about: Various

11. "The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he is one who asks the right questions."

Claude Lévi-Strauss

Quotations about: Science and Technology

12. "Adversity is another way to measure the greatness of individuals. I never had a crisis that didn't make me stronger."

Louis Leo Holtz

Quotations about: Various

13. "After all, life is really simple; we ourselves create the circumstances that complicate it."

Anon.

Quotations about: Life and Death

14. "Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab. We're all trying to experiment to find a way to live, to solve problems, to fend off madness and chaos."

David Cronenberg, "Cronenberg on Cronenberg"

Quotations about: Life and Death -:- Science and Technology

15. "When life's problems seem overwhelming, look around and see what other people are coping with. You may consider yourself fortunate."

Ann Landers

Quotations about: Various

16. "By doubting we come at truth."

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Quotations about: Truth and Falsity

17. "God may be in the details, but the goddess is in the questions. Once we begin to ask them, there's no turning back."

Gloria Steinem, "Moving Beyond Words"

Quotations about: God and Religion

18. "Stop thinking, and end your problems."

Lao-tse

Quotations about: Intellect, Judgement

19. "When the solution is simple, God is answering."

Albert Einstein

Quotations about: God and Religion

20. "It's so much easier to suggest solutions when you don't know too much about the problem."

Malcolm Forbes

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21. "It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it."

Jacob Bronowski

Quotations about: Education

22. "If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate."

Henry J. Tillman

23. "The trouble with foreign languages is, you have to think before your speak."

Swedish proverb

Quotations about: Intellect, Judgement -:- Oration and Silence

24. "When man meets an obstacle he can't destroy, he destroys himself."

Ryszard Kapusciński, "A Warsaw Diary"

Quotations about: Human

25. "No matter what side of the argument you are on, you always find people on your side that you wish were on the other."

Jascha Heifetz

26. "When is a crisis reached? When questions arise that can't be answered."

Ryszard Kapusciński, "A Warsaw Diary"

27. "Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster. Otherwise, why do so many people walk upright and with open eyes into their misfortune?"

Elias Canetti, "The Secret Heart Of The Clock"

Quotations about: Defeates and Mistakes

28. "The shortest answer is doing."

English proverb

Quotations about: Work and Laziness

29. "Art is an experience, not the formulation of a problem."

Lindsay Anderson

Quotations about: Art and Culture

30. "Whatever creativity is, it is in part a solution to a problem."

Brian W. Aldiss

Quotations about: Talent and Genius

31. "Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems."

Rene Descartes

32. "Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems."

Henry Brooks Adams, (about philosophy)

Quotations about: Science and Technology

33. "You mustn't always believe what I say. Questions tempt you to tell lies, particularly when there is no answer."

Pablo Picasso

Quotations about: Truth and Falsity

34. "When I disagree with a rational man, I let reality be our final arbiter; if I am right, he will learn; if I am wrong, I will; one of us will win, but both will profit."

Ayn Rand, "Atlas Shrugged"

Quotations about: Wisdom and Stupidity -:- Reality and Imagination

35. "The most important questions in life can never be answered by anyone except oneself."

John Fowles

Quotations about: Life and Death

36. "If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them."

Isaac Asimov

Quotations about: Knowledge, Ignorance

37. "What worries you masters you."

Haddon W. Robinson

Quotations about: Various

38. "There's a 50 percent chance of anything - either it happens or it doesn't."

Michael R. Barnes

Quotations about: Reality and Imagination

39. "It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers."

James Thurber

40. "[...] so many things are possible just as long as you don't know they're impossible. "

Norton Juster, "The Phantom Tollbooth"

Quotations about: Various

41. "The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible."

Arthur C. Clarke, "The Lost Worlds of 2001"

Quotations about: Various

42. "So many men so many questions."

Terence

Quotations about: Human

43. "There are years that ask questions and years that answer."

Zora Neale Hurston

Quotations about: Time and Passing

44. "[Hypothesis] Something murdered by facts."

Anon.

Quotations about: Science and Technology

45. "It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem."

Gilbert Keith Chesterton, "The Father Brown Omnibus"

46. "No answer is also an answer."

German proverb

47. "Most problems have either many answers or no answer. Only a few problems have a single answer."

Edmund C. Berkeley, "Computers and Automation"

Quotations about: Science and Technology

48. "Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy."

Saadi

Quotations about: Work and Laziness

49. "I have had many troubles, but the worst of them never came."

James A. Garfield

50. "We may need to solve problems not by removing the cause but by designing the way forward even if the cause remains in place."

Edward de Bono

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