Jeanette Winterson Quotes

There are sometimes problems for which there is no immediate solution, and there are sometimes problems for which there is no solution.

Non-technical questions sometimes don't have an answer at all.

We like to think we can solve everything, but we can't always.

There is no practical question on which anything more than an approximate solution can be had.

If you come from mathematics, as I do, you realize that there are many problems, even classical problems, which cannot be solved by computation alone.

The problems for which I could find no solution in fact had no solution.

We know a great deal, but our ignorance is sobering and boundless. With each step forward, with each problem which we solve, we not only discover new and unsolved problems, but we also discover that where we believed that we were standing on firm and safe ground, all things are, in truth, insecure and in a state of flux.

It does not matter that we cannot fathom this mystery. The only real problem comes when we think that we have.

There are lots of things we never understand, no matter how many years we put on, no matter how much experience we accumulate.

I guess it never is what you worry over that comes to pass in the end. The real catastrophes are always different—unimagined, unprepared for, unknown.

The more one thinks, the more one feels the hopeless immensity of man's ignorance.

Politics is more difficult than physics.

The education is the answer to everything, really, and on so many different levels. The minutiae of life require analytical skills that you learn in being educated, an ability to navigate the very systems that constitute life. They all require some degree of education, and if you don't get it, you're at a real disadvantage.

If the universe is everything, and scientists say that the universe is expanding, what is it expanding into?

We think that the point is to pass the test or to overcome the problem, but the truth is that things don't really get solved. They come together and they fall apart.

The real universe is always one step beyond logic.

Sometimes plans don't translate smoothly from paper to real life.

The news is challenging right now. One hard thing about it is that often things don't lend themselves to good explanations or we don't have enough information. So we are sometimes in pretty murky waters, as everyone is. But it's an era where people's anxiety about what's going on and need to understand what's happening around them has created a real demand for news coverage that's dedicated to filling that need.

That's what I love about poetry. The more abstract, the better. The stuff where you're not sure what the poet's talking about. You may have an idea, but you can't be sure. Not a hundred percent. Each word, specifically chosen, could have a million different meanings.

The real nature of our predicament is completely opaque to us.

You'll never know everything about anything, especially something you love.

With our human limitations we're not always able to understand the explanations.

All beginnings are very troublesome things.

A door opens to me. I go in and am faced with a hundred closed doors.

Intelligence is like four-wheel drive. It only allows you to get stuck in more remote places.