Top 74 Quotes About Insoluble
#1. As long as it (an issue) remains invisible, it is guaranteed to remain insoluble.
Margaret Heffernan
#2. The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us.
Theodor Adorno
#3. Winwood Reade is good upon the subject," said Holmes. "He remarks that, while the individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#5. There was no answer, except the general answer life gives to all the most complex and insoluble questions. That answer is: one must live for the needs of the day, in other words, become oblivious.
Leo Tolstoy
#6. The larger the percentage of the national income taken by taxes the greater the deterrent to private production and employment. When the total tax burden grows beyond a bearable size, the problem of devising taxes that will not discourage and disrupt production becomes insoluble.
Henry Hazlitt
#7. Problems will always torment us because all important problems are insoluble: that is why they are important. The good comes from the continuing struggle to try and solve them, not from the vain hope of their solution.
Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
#8. We are continually faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.
John W. Gardner
#9. Who knows, Watson? Woman's heart and mind are insoluble puzzles to the male.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#10. All problems are divided into two classes, soluble questions, which are trivial and important questions which are insoluble.
Arnold Beichman
#12. Just when the question of how to live had become clearer to him, a new insoluble problem presented itself - Death.
Leo Tolstoy
#13. Utopian speculations ... must come back into fashion. They are a way of affirming faith in the possibility of solving problems that seem at the moment insoluble. Today even the survival of humanity is a utopian hope.
Norman O. Brown
#14. The essential property of insoluble bilayers is that they optimise their area at fixed surfactant number.
Pierre-Gilles De Gennes
#15. There was no solution," Tolstoy writes in Anna Karenina, "but the universal solution that life gives to all questions, even the most complex and insoluble. That answer is: one must live in the needs of the day - that is forget oneself.
John Irving
#16. 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.
George Soros
#17. A conscious fruit fly would have to confront exactly the same difficulties, the same kind of insoluble problems as man.
Emil Cioran
#18. It is an occupational risk of biologists to claim, towards the end of their careers, that the problems which they have not solved are insoluble.
John Maynard Smith
#19. After a short flurry of national and international concern over the "death of the Sun," the human race settled down to solving the insoluble problem in the best way that they knew - they ignored it and hoped it would go away.
Robert L. Forward
#21. He could find no answer, except life's usual answer to the most complex and insoluble questions. That answer is: live in the needs of the day, that is, find forgetfulness. He
Leo Tolstoy
#22. The world is devoted to physical science, because it believes theses discoveries will increase its capacity of luxury and self-indulgence. But the pursuit of science only leads to the insoluble.
Benjamin Disraeli
#23. There are two problems in my life. The political ones are insoluble and the economic ones are incomprehensible.
Alec Douglas-Home
#24. (M)ysteries in fiction are seldom as insoluble as those in life, as most writers can't resist the lure of omniscience.
Dennis McFadden
#25. No problem is insoluble, given a big enough plastic bag.
Tom Stoppard
#26. The proper method of philosophy consists in clearly conceiving the insoluble problems in all their insolubility and then in simply contemplating them, fixedly and tirelessly, year after year, without any hope, patiently waiting.
Simone Weil
#27. It was the insoluble problems - the false leads and the cold cases - that reflected the true nature of things.
Michael Chabon
#28. No problem is insoluble in all conceivable circumstances.
Isaac Asimov
#29. These bizarre images ... reminded her of the slides of exposed spinal levels in Travis's office. They hung on the enamelled walls like the codes of insoluble dreams, the keys to a nightmare in which she had begun to play a more willing and calculated role.
J.G. Ballard
#30. The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
William James
#31. In reality I was ever revolving round one and the same insoluble problem, which was: How to teach without knowing what to teach.
Leo Tolstoy
#32. It is astonishing how elements that seem insoluble become soluble when someone listens.
Carl Rogers
#33. Man generally is entangled in insoluble problems; history is consequently a tragedy in which we are all involved, whose keynote is anxiety and frustration, not progress and fulfilment.
Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
#34. I've always felt that copious use of the word 'something' allows anyone to solve any problem, even insoluble ones.
Joao Magueijo
#35. I have a deep-seated bias against hate and intolerance. I have a bias against racial and religious bigotry. I have a bias that leads me to believe in the essential goodness of my fellow man, which leads me to believe that no problem of human relations is ever insoluble.
Ralph Bunche
#36. Marriage: This terrible insoluble problem of civilisation, which created all the evil. This unnatural state of union in disunion which exacted impossibilities and forced together elements absolutely and inherently antagonistic to each other!
Rosa Campbell Praed
#37. Most people consider problems whose solutions don't suit them to be insoluble.
And they constantly ask questions to which they don't need truthful answers.
Sergei Dovlatov
#38. A way of life that ever more rapidly depletes the power of the Earth to sustain it and piles up ever more insoluble problems for each succeeding generation can only be called violent.
E.F. Schumacher
#39. For democracy is a method of finding proximate solutions for insoluble problems.
Reinhold Niebuhr
#40. Passion and marriage are essentially irreconcilable. Their origins and their ends make them mutually exclusive. Their co-existence in our midst constantly raises insoluble problems, and the strife thereby engendered constitutes a persistent danger for every one of our social safeguards.
Denis De Rougemont
#41. There is no problem of human nature which is insoluble.
Ralph Bunche
#42. As soon as you have a problem, it's insoluble. These things should never have been allowed to happen.
William S. Burroughs
#43. Even when a social problem is so vast as to be insoluble in its entirety, it's still worth mitigating.
Nicholas Kristof
#44. His very existence was improbable, inexplicable, and altogether bewildering. He was an insoluble problem. It was inconceivable how he had existed, how he had succeeded in getting so far, how he had managed to remain
why he did not instantly disappear.
Joseph Conrad
#45. While the individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty. You can, for example, never foretell what any one man will do, but you can say with precision what an average number will be up to. Individuals vary, but the percentages remain constant
Arthur Conan Doyle
#46. Human beings are not seamless smooth creations, they have insoluble parts, and the closer you look the more mysterious they become.
Niall Williams
#47. It could be that the total scenario for human beings is an insoluble mystery until we die, followed by nothing at all.
Bryan Magee
#48. The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic.
Charles Darwin
#49. I did not know it but I was already coming up against one of the great pitfalls of the small operator - the almost insoluble problem of when to enter the market.
Nicolas Darvas
#50. I learned, whatever you hung from my earlobes or out on my back, I was insoluble, like same in water. Stir me up, I always rest on the bottom
Janet Fitch
#51. Yakov Mikhailovich, as we have already said, believed fervently in the power of the human intellect. There are no insoluble problems, only incompetent problem solvers.
Boris Akunin
#52. Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.
Alan W. Watts
#53. It's the Hitler within us that's our problem," said the media expert Peter Boenisch. "Germans are pigheaded. The fascination of Hitler is a reaction to the complexity of the world, so complicated and so insoluble for the lower strata. There is no outlet for frustration.
Peter Wyden
#54. Democracy is finding proximate solutions to insoluble problems.
Reinhold Niebuhr
#55. The real achievement in discoveries ... is seeing an analogy where no one saw one before.. The essence of discovery is that unlikely marriage of ... previously unrelated forms of reference or universes of discourse, whose union will solve the previously insoluble problem.
Arthur Koestler
#56. Are Human Problems insoluble? Human Chaos necessary?? Answer: Personally I refuse to have problems!
Abha Maryada Banerjee
#57. It is nearly an insoluble pancake, a conundrum of inscrutable potentialities, a snorter.
Flann O'Brien
#58. Philosophy ... consists chiefly in suggesting unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.
Henry Adams
#59. The message from the moon which we have flashed to the far corners of this planet is that no problem need any longer be considered insoluble.
Norman Cousins
#60. Time and again, when member states and the governments are faced with an insoluble problem, and they're under pressure to do something, that something usually ends up being referred to the U.N.
Kofi Annan
#61. The great attraction of fashion is that it diverted attention from the insoluble problems of beauty and provided an easy way
which money could buy ... to a simply stated, easily reproduced ideal of beauty, however temporary that ideal.
Theodore Zeldin
#62. Violence may not be good, my friend, but it has a certain efficiency in the resolution of otherwise insoluble problems.
Bernard Cornwell
#63. The American people must mature. We are an adolescent lot, expecting solutions to insoluble problems and perfection in our leaders.
George Friedman
#64. Death is an antidote for this life, and it makes another more stable form of life which is insoluble in everything.
Austin O'Malley
#65. The problem of finding a collection of "wise" men and leaving the government to them is thus an insoluble one. That is the ultimate reason for democracy.
Bertrand Russell
#66. We have this history of impossible solutions to insoluble problems.
Will Eisner
#67. Nothing is insoluble. Nothing is hopeless. Not while there's life.
Alan Moore
#68. The question how to live had hardly begun to grow a little clearer to him, when a new, insoluble question presented itself - death.
Leo Tolstoy
#69. Human beings, each one, right through the world, go through great agonies, the more sensitive, the more alert, the more observant, the greater the suffering, the anxiety, the extraordinary sense of insoluble problems.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#70. The superfluity of the comforts of like destroys all joy in satisfying one's needs, while great freedom in the choice of occupation ... is just what makes the choice of occupation insoluble difficult and destroys the need and even the possibility of having an occupation. p 1209
Leo Tolstoy
#71. Dualism makes the problem insoluble; materialism denies the existence of any phenomenon to study, and hence of any problem.
John Searle
#72. The existence of poverty in the US should not be accepted as a necessary evil or insoluble problem, but should be considered a crisis requiring emergency measures. It is a matter of will and priorities, not a matter of resources.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#73. Some problems - take Ireland - were insoluble, but you would never get the Americans to admit anything was insoluble.
John Le Carre
#74. If a problem is insoluble, it is Necessity. Leave it alone.
Mason Cooley
