Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes

Only when one thinks even much more madly than the philosophers can one solve their problems.

We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question which divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct. My own feeling is that it is not crazy enough.

The best way to get people to think outside the box is not to create the box in the first place.

Being a professional philosopher is, I would say, feeling natural to think about small and great problems. It is the only pleasure.

If you can't solve a problem, it's because you're playing by the rules

Complacency with our traditional judgement based thinking methods is not enough. Our existing thinking habits are excellent just as the rear wheel of a motor car is excellent but not enough. We need to put far more emphasis on creative and design thinking. Judgement and analysis are not enough.

I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.

Discovery is seeing what everybody else has seen, and thinking what nobody else has thought.

I had an immense advantage over many others dealing with the problem inasmuch as I had no fixed ideas derived from long-established practice to control and bias my mind, and did not suffer from the general belief that whatever is, is right.

I'm good at thinking outside the box, so much that you realise it's not a box to begin with.

We're always looking for candidates that have new approaches to problems.

I often try to think about, What sounds like a bad idea, but if you find the right plan of attack, it's actually a really good idea? I spend a lot of time really trying to systematically tackle problems from different angles.

The secret of innovation is to see what all see but think what none think

It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical

To be a philosopher... is to solve some of the problems of life, not only theoretically, but practically.

A philosophy is characterized more by the formulation of its problem than by its solution of them.

In The 3rd Alternative, Stephen Covey urges us to chart a course beyond the suboptimal solutions to all our crises - beyond left and right, and beyond the many false choices in front of us. The 3rdAlternative is a wise and welcome echo of Einstein's warning that the problems we're facing today cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them.

Man owes his success to his creativity. No one doubts the need for it. It is most useful in good times and essential in bad.

The problem with this world is not enough problem solvers. So, if you become a problem solver you become rich.

By not caring too much about what people think, I'm able to think for myself and propagate ideas which are very often unpopular. And I succeed with them because, again, I don't care too much what other people think.

For uncommon solutions, you have to look in uncommon places.

Those single-track military minds never think to ask their cleaning staff for help in giant lethal marauding creature matters.

Instead of seeking wisdom, liberals desire to be seen as clever by being counterintuitive, crazy, and outre.

Creative people are often considered crazy but I believe crazy can be a good thing.

If you can talk brilliantly about a problem