Problems are often stated in vague terms... because it is quite uncertain what the problems really are. — John Von Neumann
Mathematicians aren't satisfied because they know there are no solutions up to four million or four billion, they really want to know that there are no solutions up to infinity. — Andrew Wiles
Impossible means that you haven't found a solution yet . — Henry Ford
The greatest unsolved mysteries are the mysteries of our existence as conscious beings in a small corner of a vast universe. — Freeman Dyson
Problems are challenges to creative minds. Without problems, there would be little reason to think at all. — Earl Nightingale
If there is a problem you can't solve, then there is an easier problem you can't solve: find it. — George Polya
The problems of puzzles are very near the problems of life. — Erno Rubik
There are no small problems. Problems that appear small are large problems that are not understood — Santiago Ramon y Cajal
Science, in the very act of solving problems, creates more of them. — Abraham Flexner
Short Unsolved Problems Quotes
The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution. — Bertrand Russell
The first law of computer science: Every problem is solved by yet another indirection. — Bjarne Stroustrup
The computer was born to solve problems that did not exist before. — Bill Gates
If you can't solve a problem, it's because you're playing by the rules — Paul Arden
Problems are the price you pay for progress. — Branch Rickey
Happily, none of those theorems that we cannot prove at the moment are inherently interesting. — Naval Ravikant
The impossible exists only until we find a way to make it possible — Mike Horn
There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves. — Lyndon B. Johnson
Can’t be starting all these problems if you cannot solve them. — Cardi B
Unsolved Problems Image Quotes
Sometimes the easiest way to solve a problem is to stop participating in the problem.
Unresolved Issues Quotes
The feeling of being 'offended' is a warning indicator that is showing you where to look within yourself for unresolved issues. — Bryant H. McGill
The act of focusing our mightiest intellectual resources on the elusive goal of goto-less programs has helped us get our minds off all those really tough and possibly unresolvable problems and issues with which today's professional programmer would otherwise have to grapple. — Unknown Author
I never told my father I loved him before he died, and I have a lot of issues about that. They're all swimming around in my head, in my heart, unresolved, and in a way it felt fitting to dedicate the film to him. — Gary Oldman
The biggest communication problem is we do not listen to undrstand. We listen to reply.
On the other hand, at some level the mass of unresolved issues in Northern Ireland does influence the fact that there are so many good writers in the place. — Paul Muldoon
I didn't grow up with my mother, and so losing her for real was like, some sort of latent childhood, some sort of unresolved issue. When she left for real, it was sort of like, I was done. — Billy Corgan
When adults come together to form an intimate relationship, each person releases into it unresolved issues from their trans-generational pool of unconscious fantasies. Partners are often chosen to actualize certain potentialities for each other, and the unborn baby becomes party to their drama. — Joan Raphael-Leff
The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts while the stupid ones are full of confidence.
The gun issue is a big, unresolved issue in this country right now. I think it's out of control — Nora Dunn
Though race-related issues continue to occupy a significant portion of our political discussion, and though there remain many unresolved racial issues in this nation, we, average Americans, simply do not talk enough with each other about things racial. — Eric Holder
I find anger so comforting. It's like a blanket made of unresolved issues, but it's a blanket none the less. — Dov Davidoff
Unsolved Quotes
The person across the table is never the problem. The unsolved issue is. So focus on the issue. — Chris Voss
Nausea is an unsolved problem of medicine and marijuana is the finest anti-nausea medication known to science. — Peter McWilliams
Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart. — Rainer Maria Rilke
Be selective in your battles, don't make every problem a war.
Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Do not despair if the answers don't come immediately. Some answers are only revealed with the passage of time. — Rainer Maria Rilke
If the lesser mind could measure the greater as a foot-rule can measure a pyramid, there would be finality in universal suffrage. As it is, the political problem remains unsolved. — George Bernard Shaw
This whole universe, with all its vastness, grandeur and beauty, is nothing but sheer imagination. In spite of so many discoveries, researches and scientific knowledge, the creation remains a great unsolved riddle. — Meher Baba
Life is a journey to be experienced, not a problem to be solved.
Play permits the child to resolve in symbolic form unsolved problems of the past and to cope directly or symbolically with present concerns. It is also his most significant tool for preparing himself for the future and its tasks. — Bruno Bettelheim
Every solution of a problem raises new unsolved problems. — Karl Popper
Theorems are fun especially when you are the prover, but then the pleasure fades. What keeps us going are the unsolved problems. — Carl Pomerance
The bus scares me. Way too many gross people on the bus. Sixty-five people on the bus and I was the last one on. I felt like calling Unsolved Mysteries. 'Yeah, I found everybody. — Kathleen Madigan
Unsolvable Quotes
New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved. — Johnny Carson
Life is also a mixture of unsolved problems, ambiguous victories and vague defeats-with very few moments of clear peace. — Hugh Prather
In the middle of the night, things well up from the past that are not always cause for rejoicing--the unsolved, the painful encounters, the mistakes, the reasons for shame or woe. But all, good or bad, give me food for thought, food to grow on. — May Sarton
If it can be solved, theres no need to worry, and if it can't be solved, worry is of no use.
We live in a time when the words impossible and unsolvable are no longer part of the scientific community's vocabulary. Each day we move closer to trials that will not just minimize the symptoms of disease and injury but eliminate them. — Christopher Reeve
Unsolved problems, that's one of the great signs of progress in my opinion. — Kenneth Arrow
The question of the value of nationality in art is perhaps unsolvable. — Edward Hopper
Be grateful for small things, big things, and everything in between. Count your blessings, not your problems.
Turbulence is the most important unsolved problem of classical physics. — Richard P. Feynman
40% of homicides go unsolved. You know, it's not a very good record. And, also, 95% of convictions in America come from plea bargaining, which is often coerced. It's like we have the worst of both worlds. We don't convict the guilty enough, and we coerce the innocent too much. — Bill Maher
A capacity, and taste, for reading, gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. It is the key, or one of the keys, to the already solved problems. And not only so. It gives a relish, and facility, for successfully pursuing the [yet] unsolved ones. — Abraham Lincoln
Unsolvable problems do not exist. Any crisis is a combination of specific tasks to be worked on. The government has the experience and reserves to overcome the economic downturn — Dmitry Medvedev
Unsolved Mysteries Quotes
The world is not an unsolved problem for scientists or sociologists. The world is a living mystery. — Terence McKenna
Everything we do, every thought we've ever had, is produced by the human brain. But exactly how it operates remains one of the biggest unsolved mysteries, and it seems the more we probe its secrets, the more surprises we find. — Neil deGrasse Tyson
The past is an unsolved mystery and the truth a moving target. — Edna Buchanan
Anyone can run away, it's super easy. Facing problems and working through them, that's what makes you strong.
The fundamental difference between the mystery story and the ghost story is the fact that a mystery demands a solution for its effectiveness; a ghost story is necessarily unsolvable; the reader must be willing to accept the fact that nothing is proved. — Bennett Cerf
Marvelous as may be the power of my dog to understand my moods, deathless as his affection and fidelity, his mental state is as unsolved a mystery to me as it was to my remotest ancestor. — William James
Life itself is an unsolved mystery", said the clergyman gravely. — Agatha Christie
Problems Can Be Solved Quotes
You may not always have a comfortable life and you will not always be able to solve all of the world's problems at once but don't ever underestimate the importance you can have because history has shown us that courage can be contagious and hope can take on a life of its own. — Michelle Obama
No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it. — Albert Einstein
If the problem can be solved why worry? If the problem cannot be solved worrying will do you no good. — Shantideva
Running from your problems is just adding another one to the list.
The best thing that can happen to a human being us to find a problem, to fall in love with that problem, and to live trying to solve that problem, unless another problem even more lovable appears. — Karl Popper
The world we have created is a product of our thinking; it cannot be changed without changing our thinking. If we want to change the world we have to change our thinking...no problem can be solved from the same consciousness that created it. We must learn to see the world anew. — Albert Einstein
As much as 95% of quality related problems in the factory can be solved with seven fundamental quantitative tools. — Kaoru Ishikawa
If you only focus on your problems, that's all you'll ever see.
At this very moment enormous numbers of intelligent men and women of goodwill are trying to build a better world. But problems are born faster than they can be solved. — B. F. Skinner
In the coming years, we must perfect the system and be able to use it in a more personalized way. It’s the future… the study of microbes can solve some of the biggest problems facing humanity. — Emmanuelle Charpentier
If a problem can be solved with money, then it’s not a problem but a cost. — Jewish Proverbs
We all want a United Africa, United not only in our concept of what unity connotes, but united in our common desire to move forward together in dealing with all the problems that can best be solved only on a continental basis. — Kwame Nkrumah
Unanswered Questions Quotes
Hope is willing to leave unanswered questions unanswered and unknown futures unknown. Hope makes you see God's guiding hand not only in the gentle and pleasant moments but also in the shadows of disappointment and darkness. — Henri Nouwen
If knowing answers to life's questions is absolutely necessary to you, then forget the journey. You will never make it, for this is a journey of unknowables - of unanswered questions, enigmas, incomprehensibles, and, most of all, things unfair. — Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon
Would you know my name, if I saw you in Heaven? — Eric Clapton
How many times can a man turn his head, and pretend that he just doesn't see? — Bob Dylan
Please... tell me who you are and what you want. And if you think those are simple questions, keep in mind that most people live their entire lives without arriving at an answer. — Gary Zukav
Waiting on God requires the willingness to bear uncertainty, to carry within oneself the unanswered question, lifting the heart to God about it whenever it intrudes upon one's thoughts. — Elisabeth Elliot
Stay away from negative people. They have a problem for every solution,
I wish to fill in the gaps which have so far always remained unanswered in the souls of men as burning questions, and which never leave any serious thinker in peace, if he honestly seeks the Truth. — Abd-ru-shin
Does anyone know where the love of God goes when the waves turn the minutes to hours? — Gordon Lightfoot
All Nature bristles with the marks of interrogation-among the grass and the petals of flowers, amidst the feathers of birds and the hairs of mammals, on mountain and moorland, in sea and sky-everywhere. It is one of the joys of life to discover those marks of interrogation, these unsolved and half-solved problems and try to answer their questions. — J. Arthur Thomson
It is impressive to see a person who has been battered by life in many ways, who is torn by a variety of unsolved problems, who may be alienated from many aspects of the self-but who is still fighting, still struggling, still striving to find the path to a fulfilling existence, moved by the wisdom of knowing, "I am more than my problems." — Nathaniel Branden
All the more recent work on alkaptonuria has... strengthened the belief that the homogentisic acid excreted is derived from tyrosin, but why alkaptonuric individuals pass the benzene ring of their tyrosin unbroken and how and where the peculiar chemical change from tyrosin to homogentisic acid is brought about, remain unsolved problems. — Archibald Garrod
We know a great deal, but our ignorance is sobering and boundless. With each step forward, with each problem which we solve, we not only discover new and unsolved problems, but we also discover that where we believed that we were standing on firm and safe ground, all things are, in truth, insecure and in a state of flux. — Karl Popper
For me, consciousness is the most interesting unsolved problem of science, and, in fact, we may never know what it is about a particular arrangement of neurons that gives rise to consciousness. Our consciousness, like the air we breathe or like the passage of time, is central to our existence as intelligent beings. — Alan Lightman
As long as we have unsolved problems, unfulfilled desires, and a mustard seed of faith, we have all we need for a vibrant prayer life. — John Ortberg
Empathic listening takes time, but it doesn't take anywhere near as much time as it takes to back up and correct misunderstandings when you're already miles down the road; to redo; to live with unexpressed and unsolved problems; to deal with the results of not giving people psychological air. — Stephen Covey
When the sea goes down, there will come from the mainland boats and men. And they will find ten dead bodies and an unsolved problem on Indian Island. — Agatha Christie
In virtually every organization, regardless of mission and function, people are frustrated by problems that seem unsolvable. — Margaret J. Wheatley
Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems. — Virginia Woolf
Most successful businesses in the country were started on a kitchen table. As long as people have needs unmet or problems unsolved, there are business opportunities. — Brian Tracy
It is one of our most exciting discoveries that local discovery leads to a complex of further discoveries. — Richard Buckminster Fuller
When one's own problems are unsolvable and all best efforts frustrated, it is lifesaving to listen to other people's problems. — Suzanne Massie
God left the world unfinished for man to work his skill upon. He left the electricity in the cloud, the oil in the earth. He left the rivers unbridged and the forests unfelled and the cities unbuilt. God gives to man the challenge of raw materials, not the ease of finished things. He leaves the pictures unpainted and the music unsung and the problems unsolved, that man might know the joys and glories of creation. — Thomas S. Monson
There is no such thing as an unsolvable problem. — Sergei Korolev
It is not enough that you should understand about applied science in order that your work may increase mans blessings. Concern for the man himself and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors; concern for the great unsolved problems of the organization of labor and the distribution of goods in order that the creations of our mind shall be a blessing and not a curse to mankind. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations. — Albert Einstein
God gave man the challenge of raw materials -- not the ease of finished things. He left the pictures unpainted and the music unsung and the problems unsolved, that man might know the joys and glories of creation. — Unknown
I am not a disbeliever in those who have told me they went to bed in the evening with an unsolved problem on their mind and woke up in the morning to find, waiting for them there in their consciousness, the correct answer. — Dr. Jean Hanson
Death and taxes are unsolved engineering problems — Romana Machado
If you've got a problem and you multiply it by 50-million people, it becomes unsolvable, but if you've got a problem and you divide it by 50-million people, it becomes solvable. — Lewis Pugh
God left the world unfinished; the pictures unpainted, the songs unsung, and the problems unsolved, that man might know the joys of creation. — Thomas S. Monson
Never carry things on from the past. The past is gone. Every moment be rid of it, solved or unsolved. Drop it - and don't carry parts because those parts won't allow you to solve new problems that live in this moment. Live in this moment as totally as possible, and suddenly you will come to realized, that if you live it totally, it is solved. There is no need to solve it. Life is not a problem to be solved, it's a mystery to be lived. — Osho
Modern problems proliferate and remain unsolved because we spend so much time trying to deal with societal and world problems without first dealing with family and community problems. If we organized for normal families and communities - if these two groups provided the functions they are designed for - world problems would diminish and fade out in two or three generations. — Ralph Borsodi
We are to find God in what we know, not in what we don't know. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
We have all the information in the universe at our fingertips, while our most basic problems go unsolved year after year...All around, we see dazzling technological change, but no progress. — George Packer
The child knows only that he engages in play because it is enjoyable. He isn't aware of his need to play--a need which has its source in the pressure of unsolved problems. Nor does he know that his pleasure in playing comes from a deep sense of well-being that is the direct result of feeling in control of things, in contrast to the rest of his life, which is managed by his parents or other adults. — Bruno Bettelheim
America is an unsolvable problem: a nation divided and deeply in hate with itself. If it was a startup, wed understand how unfixable the situation is; most of us would leave for a fresh start, and the company would fall apart. America is MySpace. — Michael Arrington
The thinking person has the strange characteristic to like to create a fantasy in the place of the unsolved problem, a fantasy that stays with the person even when the problem has been solved and truth made its appearance. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Only unsolvable problems are worthy of artificial intelligence. — Saul Gorn
I believe that each young person is different from any other who has ever lived, as different as his fingerprints: that he could bring to the world a wonderful and special way of solving unsolved problems, that in his special way, he can be great. — Edwin Land
There is no counting the unsolved problems of Natural History. — J. Arthur Thomson
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