124 Unsolved Quotes

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Famous Unsolved Quotes

Impossible means that you haven't found a solution yet . — Henry Ford

There are no solved problems; there are only problems that are more or less solved. — Henri Poincare

The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown. — Carl Jung

The greatest unsolved mysteries are the mysteries of our existence as conscious beings in a small corner of a vast universe. — Freeman Dyson

Focus on problems that cannot be solved today at all. — Jensen Huang

We are caught inside a mystery, veiled in an enigma, locked inside a riddle — Terence McKenna

Some problems are just too complicated for rational, logical solutions. They admit of insights, not answers. — Jerome Wiesner

Pure mathematicians just love to try unsolved problems - they love a challenge. - Andrew Wiles

Pure mathematicians just love to try unsolved problems - they love a challenge. — Andrew Wiles

You can't solve a problem? Well, get down and investigate the present facts and [the problem's] past history! When you have investigated the problem thoroughly, you will know how to solve it. — Mao Zedong

Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle. — Lewis Carroll

Life is a mystery to be lived, not a problem to be solved. — Soren Kierkegaard

Problems are often stated in vague terms... because it is quite uncertain what the problems really are. — John Von Neumann

The mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience. — Frank Herbert

Unprovable theorems vastly outnumber the provable ones. — Naval Ravikant

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

Short Unsolved Quotes

  • The person across the table is never the problem. The unsolved issue is. So focus on the issue. — Chris Voss
  • Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart. — Rainer Maria Rilke
  • We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as unsolvable problems. — John W. Gardner
  • Every solution of a problem raises new unsolved problems. — Karl Popper
  • New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved. — Johnny Carson
  • 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
  • Turbulence is the most important unsolved problem of classical physics. — Richard P. Feynman
  • The world is not an unsolved problem for scientists or sociologists. The world is a living mystery. — Terence McKenna
  • The past is an unsolved mystery and the truth a moving target. — Edna Buchanan

Unsolvable Quotes

Nausea is an unsolved problem of medicine and marijuana is the finest anti-nausea medication known to science. — Peter McWilliams

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

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

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

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

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 Quotes

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

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

Unsolved Mysteries Quotes

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 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

Unanswered 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

Be sure that someday you'll praise and thank God for your unanswered prayers that once you had wept for them. — Shams Tabrizi

The greatest tragedy of life is not unanswered prayer, buy unoffered prayer. - F.B. Meyer

The greatest tragedy of life is not unanswered prayer, buy unoffered prayer. — F.B. Meyer

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

Character is both developed and revealed by tests, and all of life is a test... You will be tested by major changes, delayed promises, impossible problems, unanswered prayers, undeserved criticism, and even senseless tragedies. — Rick Warren

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

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

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

Unresolved Quotes

I just always wanted to study human behavior because every psychologist that I would talk to would tell me I was bipolar, and I know I'm not bipolar, so I had to perform a psychoanalysis on myself to find out that I have unresolved grief. — Kevin Gates

Love brings up our unresolved feelings . One day we are feeling loved , and the next day we are suddenly afraid to trust love . The painful memories of being rejected begin to surface when we are faced with trusting and accepting our partner's love . — John Gray

It is important not to allow ever wider coalition-building to become an end in itself. As we saw in the Gulf War of 1990, international pressures, particularly those exerted from within an alliance, can result in the failure to follow actions through and so leave future problems unresolved. — Margaret Thatcher

When it comes down to it, if you feel crappy it’s because your brain is telling you that there’s a problem that’s unaddressed or unresolved. — Mark Manson

I find in all the artists that I admire most a disturbing element, a distortion, giving evidence of a struggle . . . . In great art, this conflict is hidden, it is unresolved. All that is bursting with energy is disturbing - not perfect. — Henry Moore

It is brave to be involved. To be not fearful to be unresolved. — Gwendolyn Brooks

The feeling of being 'offended' is a warning indicator that is showing you where to look within yourself for unresolved issues. — Bryant H. McGill

What lingers from the parent's individual past, unresolved or incomplete, often becomes part of her or his irrational parenting. — Virginia Satir

Any pain entailed in repentance will always be far less than the suffering required to satisfy justice for unresolved transgression. — D. Todd Christofferson

A good marriage is not one where perfection reigns: it is a relationship where a healthy perspective overlooks a multitude of "unresolvables." — James Dobson

Unexplained Quotes

Weird itself, even in the dictionary, is just something that is different and unexplainable. A weirdo is someone who follows their heart. Im definitely weird, aint nothing wrong with that. — Kid Cudi

The person who will give you unexplained happiness, will also be the reason for your unexplained sadness. — Zayn Malik

We should not assume; however, that just because something is unexplainable by us, it is unexplainable. — Neal A. Maxwell

There is no definition of beauty, but when you can see someone's spirit coming through, something unexplainable, that's beautiful to me. — Liv Tyler

It's an unexplainable feeling, an expression. It's a touch, it's a feel. Once you feel it, it's like no other thing in the world. — Snoop Dogg

Confusion is the best form of communication. It's left to be unexplained. — Twiggy

Papa continually emphasizes how much remains unexplained. With the other psychoanalytic writers, everything is always so known and fixed. — Anna Freud

The walk of Faith is to live according to the revelation we have received, in the midst of the mysteries we can't explain. — Bill Johnson

Learning is by nature curiosity... prying into everything, reluctant to leave anything, material or immaterial, unexplained. — Philo

Deposits of unfinished grief reside in more American hearts that I ever imagined. Until these pockets are opened and their contents aired openly, they block unimagined amounts of human growth and potential. They can give rise to bizarre and unexplained behavior which causes untold internal stress. — Robert Kavanaugh

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More Unsolved Quotes

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

Standard mathematics has recently been rendered obsolete by the discovery that for years we have been writing the numeral five backward. This has led to reevaluation of counting as a method of getting from one to ten. Students are taught advanced concepts of Boolean algebra, and formerly unsolvable equations are dealt with by threats of reprisals. — Woody Allen

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

I've always been fascinated, obsessed even, with books and TV shows about unsolved murders, cold cases, forensic science, mysteries, and so on. Many times when I get inspiration for my work, it's from something in one of these books or TV shows, or perhaps some newspaper article about a specific case. — Scott Heim

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

The human brain is the only object in the known universe that can predict its own future and tell its on fortune. The fact that we can make disastrous decisions even as we foresee their consequences is the great, unsolved mystery of human behavior. When you hold your fate in your hands, why would you ever make a fist? — Daniel Gilbert

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

My spiritual pain is unbearable. I keep having the same unsolved question: if my rifle claimed people's lives, then can it be that I a Christian and an Orthodox believer, was to blame for their deaths? — Mikhail Kalashnikov

Be patient with all that is unsolved in your life. Learn to love the questions themselves, until some distant day, without your knowing, you will have lived into the answers. — Rainer Maria Rilke

Why make yourself miserable saying things like, "Why do we have such bad luck? What has God done to us? What have we done to deserve this?" - all of which, if you understand reality and take it completely into your heart, are irrelevant and unsolvable. They are just things that nobody can know. Your situation is just an accident of life. — Richard P. Feynman

I think there are some in the Democratic Party - not all - but I think there are some people in the Democratic Party that think that the immigration issue is more valuable to them unsolved. That it gives them something to talk about, that they can go back to Hispanic communities and make unrealistic promises every two years and win votes. — Marco Rubio

Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Try to love the questions themselves...At present you need to live the question. Perhaps you will gradually, without even noticing it, find yourself experiencing the answer. — Rainer Maria Rilke

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