Insoluble Quotes

55 quotes by 45 authors

Refugee problems may often seem intractable but they are not insoluble. In our experience there are two basic prerequisites for solution: the political will of… — Sadako Ogata
A way of life that ever more rapidly depletes the power of the Earth to sustain it and piles up ever more insoluble problems for… — E F Schumacher
After Gibbs, one the most distinguished [American scientists] was Langley, of the Smithsonian. ... He had the physicist's heinous fault of professing to know nothing… — Henry Adams
The real achievement in discoveries ... is seeing an analogy where no one saw one before. .. The essence of discovery is that unlikely marriage… — Arthur Koestler
Human beings, each one, right through the world, go through great agonies, the more sensitive, the more alert, the more observant, the greater the suffering,… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
"It is against their own insoluble problem of being human that the dull and base in humanity are in revolt in anti-Semitism. Judaism, nevertheless, together… — Hermann Rauschning
The greatest and most important problems of life are all in a certain sense insoluble. They can never be solved, but only outgrown. This 'outgrowing',… — Carl Jung
When someone really hears you without passing judgment on you, without trying to take responsibility for you, without trying to mold you, it feels damn… — Carl Rogers
The larger the percentage of the national income taken by taxes the greater the deterrent to private production and employment. When the total tax burden… — Henry Hazlitt
While the individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty. You can, for example, never foretell what any one… — Arthur Conan Doyle
We are not here in this world to find elegant solutions, pregnant with initiative, or to serve the ways and modes of profitable progress. No,… — Michael Foot
It is an occupational risk of biologists to claim, towards the end of their careers, that the problems which they have not solved are insoluble. — John Maynard Smith
Problems will always torment us because all important problems are insoluble: that is why they are important. The good comes from the continuing struggle to… — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
It is astonishing how elements which seem insoluble become soluble when someone listens. How confusions which seem irremediable turn into relatively clear flowing streams when… — Carl Rogers
It could be that the total scenario for human beings is an insoluble mystery until we die, followed by nothing at all. — Bryan Magee
If a problem is insoluble, it is Necessity. Leave it alone. — Mason Cooley
All problems are divided into two classes, soluble questions, which are trivial and important questions which are insoluble. — Arnold Beichman
The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us. — Theodor Adorno
I have a deep-seated bias against hate and intolerance. I have a bias against racial and religious bigotry. I have a bias that leads me… — Ralph Bunche
The most ordinary things are to philosophy a source of insoluble puzzles. With infinite ingenuity it constructs a concept of space or time and then… — Ludwig Boltzmann

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