Unsolvable Problems Quotes

In human affairs the solution to every problem contains within it the seeds of a new problem.

For as long as I can remember, we've been having debates about the foreign policy disasters and seemingly unsolvable problems around the world. Dinner conversations are replayed over generations - nothing seems to get better, and in some aspects, it seems dramatically worse, and that is especially true for women.

Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.

Most of my problems have no answer or else the answer is worse than the problem.

There are mysteries which men can only guess at, which age by age they may solve only in part.

I think there are some things that just cannot be fixed.

There are no explanations, there are no answers.

A real scientist solves problems, not wails that they are unsolvable.

In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every age has consisted of crises that seemed intolerable to the people who lived through them.

Your trouble is, you keep trying to unscrew the unscrutable.

... the most insoluble problems are those which by their very nature can have no space within them for dreams.

It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand, and what those things are

The marvelous thing is that for thousands of years people have continued questioning and searching and ultimately concluding that reasons for certain occurrences are not given to man to know.

There are some problems on this planet that seem to be intractable.

In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.

We are trying to make the world a better place, but that is not necessarily what we accomplish. Many of the problems which preoccupy us are basically insoluble.

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

Usually the first problems you solve with the new paradigm are the ones that were unsolvable with the old paradigm.

One room is always enough for one person. Two rooms is not enough for two people. That is one of the conundrums in life.

Life involves maintaining oneself between contradictions that can't be solved by analysis.

It strikes me as gruesome and comical that in our culture we have an expectation that man can always solve his problems. This is so untrue that it makes me want to cry — or laugh.

By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him at all.

There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer.

There are doubts, sir, which, if man have them, it is not man that can solve them.

One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.