Philosophy: Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.

“Philosophy . . .consists chiefly in suggesting unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.”

— Henry Adams

[P]hilosophy . . .consists chiefly in suggesting unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.

— Henry Adams

“The true meaning of our philosophy will be unintelligible to the arrogant, the boastful and the mocking. Beware of those who exhibit such traits.”

— Joanne Owen

“Difficulty is a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.”

— Anonymous

“He's the unintelligible one, the unpredictable one. He's the one who doesn't do things for sensible, predictable reasons. I'm going to survive, and once…

— Anonymous

For democracy is a method of finding proximate solutions for insoluble problems.

— Reinhold Niebuhr

“it was the insoluble problems—the false leads and the cold cases—that reflected the true nature of things.”

— Michael Chabon

... the most insoluble problems are those which by their very nature can have no space within them for dreams.

— Colleen McCullough

We are all faced with a series of great opportunities - brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.

— John W Gardner

Democracy is finding proximate solutions to insoluble problems.

— Reinhold Niebuhr

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

— James A. Michener

We have this history of impossible solutions to insoluble problems.

— Will Eisner

We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.

— Lee Iacocca

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

— John W. Gardner

All lyrical work must, as a whole, be perfectly intelligible, but in some particulars a little unintelligible.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe