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Category: Question and Problem

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

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Other categories: Richness and Money

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

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Other categories: Good and Evil

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

Chinese proverb

Other categories: Wisdom and Stupidity

4. "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

Other categories: Politics and Diplomacy

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

David Gerrold

Other categories: Human

6. "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"

Other categories: Science and Technology -:- Knowledge, Ignorance

7. "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"

Other categories: Science and Technology

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

John W. Gardner

Other categories: Various

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

Claude Lévi-Strauss

Other categories: Science and Technology

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

Louis Leo Holtz

Other categories: Various

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

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Other categories: Life and Death

12. "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"

Other categories: Life and Death -:- Science and Technology

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

Ann Landers

Other categories: Various

14. "By doubting we come at truth."

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Other categories: Truth and Falsity

15. "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"

Other categories: God and Religion

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

Lao-tse

Other categories: Intellect, Judgement

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

Albert Einstein

Other categories: God and Religion

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

Malcolm Forbes

19. "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

Other categories: Education

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

Henry J. Tillman

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

Swedish proverb

Other categories: Intellect, Judgement -:- Oration and Silence

22. "When man meets an obstacle he can’t destroy, he destroys himself."

Ryszard Kapusciński, "A Warsaw Diary"

Other categories: Human

23. "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

24. "When is a crisis reached? When questions arise that can’t be answered."

Ryszard Kapusciński, "A Warsaw Diary"

25. "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"

Other categories: Defeates and Mistakes

26. "The shortest answer is doing."

English proverb

Other categories: Work and Laziness

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

Lindsay Anderson

Other categories: Art and Culture

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

Brian W. Aldiss

Other categories: Talent and Genius

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

Rene Descartes

30. "Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems."

Henry Brooks Adams, (about philosophy)

Other categories: Science and Technology

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

Pablo Picasso

Other categories: Truth and Falsity

32. "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"

Other categories: Wisdom and Stupidity -:- Reality and Imagination

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

John Fowles

Other categories: Life and Death

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

Isaac Asimov

Other categories: Knowledge, Ignorance

35. "What worries you masters you."

Haddon W. Robinson

Other categories: Various

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

Michael R. Barnes

Other categories: Reality and Imagination

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

James Thurber

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

Norton Juster, "The Phantom Tollbooth"

Other categories: Various

39. "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"

Other categories: Various

40. "So many men so many questions."

Terence

Other categories: Human

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

Zora Neale Hurston

Other categories: Time and Passing

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

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Other categories: Science and Technology

43. "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"

44. "No answer is also an answer."

German proverb

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

Edmund C. Berkeley, "Computers and Automation"

Other categories: Science and Technology

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

Saadi

Other categories: Work and Laziness

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

James A. Garfield

48. "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

49. "A solved problem creates two new problems, and the best prescription for happy living is not to solve any more problems than you have to."

Russell Baker

Other categories: Happiness

50. "If you owe your bank a hundred pounds, you have a problem. But if you owe a million, it has."

John Maynard Keynes

Other categories: Richness and Money

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