Underlying Issue Quotes

You can't change the fruit without changing the root.

Microsoft is not the problem. Microsoft is the symptom.

You can't sweeten the well by painting the pump.

Just cause you got the monkey off your back doesn't mean the circus has left town.

The addiction isn't your problem - it is what you use to cope with your problem.

You may help a lame dog over a stile but he is still a lame dog on the other side.

You want to put a band-aid on something that needs stitches.

Is he mad? Anyway there's something on his mind, as sure as there must be something on a deck when it cracks.

We can't get at crime unless we know what language it speaks. Otherwise, we are just suppressing the cough, not curing the disease.

I think cheating can inherently mean a deeper problem, someone is acting out.

You can't judge an internal injury by the size of the hole.

I have to keep going to find out ultimately what is the matter with it in the end.

We all have the same problem as human beings. And it's something that we are born with, and we just see it manifest in different ways. And in this situation, it's racial. It's brutality. It's people breaking the law. It's the smoke, but the underlying fire is something that we all have to deal with, and that's our sin.

It's important to note that aggression isn't the problem. It's the outcome of a problem.

People have to see that there is a high degree of complexity about belonging to a gang. It's a symptom, not a problem.

I think when people are abusing drugs it is probably a symptom of a bigger problem that they need to address.

There is a means to every end. A root to any cause. Sometimes the root is more evil than any cause, though it's the cause that is usually most vilified.

For these cultures, getting rid of the pain without addressing the deeper cause would be like shutting off a fire alarm while the fire's still going.

Drugs, were a symptom - they weren't the cause of anything.

He also didn't like a lock of my hair and said that he couldn't get into the moment without the hair being just right. I quietly knew that he was anxious and that the hairdo wasn't the real issue. But we all let it go and came back to the scene sometime later.

Cake is not the issue here.

When you hire a plumber because no hot water is coming out of the kitchen sink faucet, you need to go to the water heater, not the faucet.

The ugliness can sometimes be super ugly, but also a warning sign of something down below.