Insoluble Problems Quotes

15 quotes by 13 authors

• 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
• 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
• Passion and marriage are essentially irreconcilable. Their origins and their ends make them mutually exclusive. Their co-existence in our midst constantly raises insoluble problems, and… — Denis de Rougemont
• 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.
• 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
• 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
• Democracy is finding proximate solutions to insoluble problems. — Reinhold Niebuhr
• 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
• We have this history of impossible solutions to insoluble problems. — Will Eisner
• [P]hilosophy . . .consists chiefly in suggesting unintelligible answers to insoluble problems. — Henry Adams
• There are no insoluble problems. Only time-consuming ones. — James A. Michener
• We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems. — Lee Iacocca
• We are all faced with a series of great opportunities - brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems. — John W. Gardner
• Philosophy: Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems. — Henry Adams

Who Wrote These Insoluble Problems Quotes

13 authors contributed a total of 15 Insoluble Problems Quotes as follows:

• 3 Insoluble Problems Quotes by Henry Adams
• 1 Insoluble Problems Quote by E F Schumacher
• 1 Insoluble Problems Quote by Jiddu Krishnamurti
• 1 Insoluble Problems Quote by Denis de Rougemont
• 1 Insoluble Problems Quote by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
• 1 Insoluble Problems Quote by Simone Weil
• 1 Insoluble Problems Quote by Theodore Zeldin
• 1 Insoluble Problems Quote by Reinhold Niebuhr
• 1 Insoluble Problems Quote by Paul Tournier
• 1 Insoluble Problems Quote by Will Eisner
• 1 Insoluble Problems Quote by James A. Michener
• 1 Insoluble Problems Quote by Lee Iacocca
• 1 Insoluble Problems Quote by John W. Gardner