Best Insoluble Quotes
55 Insoluble quotes by 45 unique authors
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Man generally is entangled in insoluble problems; history is consequently a tragedy in which we are all involved, whose keynote is anxiety and frustration, not…
— Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
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There is no problem of human nature which is insoluble.
— Ralph Bunche
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As I worked on projects which fulfilled a real human need forces were working through me which amazed me. I would often go to sleep…
— George Washington Carver
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It is amusing to discover, in the twentieth century, that the quarrels between two lovers, two mathematicians, two nations, two economic systems, usually assumed insoluble…
— Alfred Korzybski
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The proper method of philosophy consists in clearly conceiving the insoluble problems in all their insolubility and then in simply contemplating them, fixedly and tirelessly,…
— Simone Weil
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The world is devoted to physical science, because it believes theses discoveries will increase its capacity of luxury and self-indulgence. But the pursuit of science…
— Benjamin Disraeli
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The great attraction of fashion is that it diverted attention from the insoluble problems of beauty and provided an easy way -- which money could…
— Theodore Zeldin
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If you walk along the street you will encounter a number of scientific problems. Of these, about 80 per cent are insoluble, while 19½ per…
— Hermann Bondi
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The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic.
— Charles Darwin
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The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble.
— Benjamin Disraeli
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The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.
— Carl Jung
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Democracy is finding proximate solutions to insoluble problems.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
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His very existence was improbable, inexplicable, and altogether bewildering. He was an insoluble problem. It was inconceivable how he had existed, how he had succeeded…
— Joseph Conrad
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We are nearly always longing for an easy religion, easy to understand and easy to follow; a religion with no mystery, no insoluble problems,no snags;…
— Paul Tournier
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We have this history of impossible solutions to insoluble problems.
— Will Eisner
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Sometimes, life seems to have a higher meaning. Events unfold in uncanny sequences. Long-forgotten acquaintances turn up with news that changes lives. A stranger appears…
— Dean Koontz
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Days pass when I forget the mystery. Problems insoluble and problems offering their own ignored solutions jostle for my attention, they crowd its antechamber along…
— Denise Levertov
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[P]hilosophy . . .consists chiefly in suggesting unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.
— Henry Adams
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Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.
— Alan Watts
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Nothing is insoluble. Nothing is hopeless. Not while there's life.
— Alan Moore
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In spite of death, he felt the need of life and love. He felt that love saved him from despair, and that this love, under…
— Leo Tolstoy
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...while the individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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The problem of reconciling human suffering with the existence of a God who loves, is only insoluble so long as we attach a trivial meaning…
— C.S. Lewis
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Just when the question of how to live had become clearer to him, a new insoluble problem presented itself - Death.
— Leo Tolstoy
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There are two problems in my life. The political ones are insoluble and the economic ones are incomprehensible.
— Alec Douglas-Home
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