73 Problems Quotes

I recently had my problems on the run, but now they've re-grouped, and are making another attack.

Money is a strange business. People who haven't got it aim it strongly. People who have are full of troubles.

I've come to the realization that a lot of our problems are because of a dearth of spiritual values.

I can't be as confident about computer science as I can about biology. Biology easily has 500 years of exciting problems to work on. It's at that level.

It is characteristic of all deep human problems that they are not to be approached without some humor and some bewilderment.

There is almost no marital problem that can't be helped enormously by taking off your clothes.

The one thing that unifies men in a given age is not their individual philosophies but the dominant problem that these philosophies are designed to solve.

I find the medicine worse than the malady.

Pretend hard enough and maybe it will go away.

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today.

It isn't the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it's the pebble in your shoe.

I don't think most people associate me with leeches or how to get them off. But I know how to get them off. I'm an expert at it.

With man, most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man.

This country has far more problems than it deserves and far more solutions than it applies.

If a problem has no solution, it may not be a problem, but a fact - not to be solved, but to be coped with over time.

If you have some problem in your life and you need to deal with it then use religion it's fine. I use Google.

One of the nice things about problems is that a good many of them do not exist except in our imaginations.

No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.

I say that they can be solved; there is no problem that cannot be, but faith is necessary. Think of the faith I had to have eighteen years ago, a single man on a lonely path. Yet I have come to leadership of the German people. : Life is hard for many, but it is hardest if you are unhappy and have no faith. Have faith. Nothing can make me change my own belief.

A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.

For both the rich and the poor, life is dominated by an ever growing current of problems, most of which seem to have no real and lasting solution. Clearly we have not touched the deeper causes of our troubles. It is the main point of this book that the ultimate source of all these problems is in thought itself, the very thing of which our civilization is most proud, and therefore the one thing that is 'hidden' because of our failure seriously to engage with its actual working in our own individual lives and in the life of society.

There are no insoluble problems. Only time-consuming ones.

An optimist is a fellow who believes what's going to be will be postponed.

We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.

I wouldn't give his troubles to a monkey on a rock.

The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problem.*

Y'see, when you start to lick a national problem you have to go after the fundamentables. You want to cut down air pollution? Cut down the original source... Breathin! ~ Churchy to Howland

Problems cannot be solved by the level of awareness that created them.

You must pursue facts for their own sake, but penetrated with a vivid sense of the problems of your own time. This is not a principle of perversion, but a principle of selection. You must have some principle of selection, and you could not have a better one than to pay special attention to the history of the social problems which are agitating the world now, for you may be sure that they are problems not of temporary but of lasting importance.

If we can see our difficulties, there is a way of resolving them, or the hope of a way.

Perhaps we should warn you that there is one thing you won't read, and that is a pat answer for the problems of life. We don't pretend to make this a spiritual or psychological patent-medicine chest where one can come and get a pill of wisdom, to be swallowed like an aspirin, to banish the headaches of our times.

My biggest kick in music-playing or writing-is when I have a problem. Without a problem to solve, how much interest do you take in anything?

All problemas are unsolvable. The essence of the existence of a problem is that there is no solution. Looking for a fact means there is no fact. To think is not to know how to be.

Given that we cannot know all the elements in a problem, we never can solve it.

Jack: [poking his head through the stage curtains] Bob, will you please give me my pants back?

Youk'n hide de fier, but w'at you gwine do wid de smoke?

The problem inherent in the surface of things, and only in the surface of things, is the heart of things.

The problems are dissolved in the actual sense of the word - like a lump of sugar in water. (p.183)

Don't get involved in partial problems, but always take flight to where there is a free view over the whole single great problem, even if this view is still not a clear one.

Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by hitting back.

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

If I found any new truths in the sciences, I can say that they follow from, or depend on, five or six principal problems which I succeeded in solving and which I regard as so many battles where the fortunes of war were on my side.

It has become clear that the legacy of the past decades we have to cope with is even worse than we anticipated or could anticipate in the joyful atmosphere of those first weeks of freedom. New problems are emerging day by day, and we can see how interconnected they are, how long it takes to solve them, and how difficult it is to establish priorities.