Karl Pilkington Quotes

Every problem solved is a problem made.

Science never solves a problem without creating ten more.

Almost every achievement contains within its success the seeds of a future problem.

We have first raised a dust and then complain we cannot see.

The remedy is worse than the disease.

I wouldn't change a single thing, because one change alters every moment that follows it.

You never know when you are doing something that is affecting someone.

Any study of a society shows that every solution creates a new situation which breeds its own new needs and problems, new demands.

Actions can have unintended adverse consequences.

Unintended Consequences

Every action we have is going to have repercussions in ways we could not anticipate.

Be careful what you wish for. There's always a catch.

What happens when you have vast legislative overreach is you don't particularly fix the problem you started out to fix but create problems for everyone else.

Every choice that we makes creates consequences, consequences in the lives of others and we experience them in ourselves, those same consequences, every choice that we make. And by the way the choices that you might think are the most important are not always the most important.

If only we could see the endless string of consequences that result from our smallest actions. But we can't know better until knowing better is useless.

If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem, but the perpetual human predicament is that the answer soon poses its own problems.

The problems we face, did not come down from the heavens. They are made, they are made by bad human decisions, and good human decisions can change them.

Like for Einstein, and for people who create nuclear weapons, the problem with the pursuit of knowledge and the pursuit of the greater good is that it invariably leads to things you weren't expecting.

Maybe if I didn't pick up that one person, I wouldn't have picked up forty-two thousand.

Our national problems usually do not cause nearly as much harm as the solutions.

Like all religions, Reason presents itself as the solution to the problems it has created

A solved problem creates two new problems, and the best prescription for happy living is not to solve any more problems.

He for himself weaves woe who weaves for others woe, and evil counsel on the counselor recoils.

Everything you do has some effect, some impact.

A Warrior knows that everything a person does has enduring consequences.