If I, like some people, believed that the success and the future of the Christian Church was dependent upon human ability and power and organization, if I believed that organized campaigns and so on were really going to solve the problem, I would be entirely hopeless.
—Martyn Lloyd-Jones
When the only tool you own is a hammer, every problem begins to resemble a nail.
In a word if you tell me you have a personality problem I am not certain until I know you better whether to say ‘Good!’ or ‘I’m sorry.’ It depends on the reasons. And these, it seems, may be good reasons, or they may be good reasons.
— Abraham Maslow
Every age but ours has had its model, its ideal. All of these have been given up by our culture; the saint, the hero, the gentleman, the knight, the mystic. About all we have left is the well-adjusted man without problems, a very pale and doubtful substitute.
— Abraham Maslow
“Think forwards and backwards—invert, always invert. Many hard problems are best solved when they are addressed backward.”
I gave up caring about anything, and all the problems disappeared.
And it was after that that I found out the truth.
I learnt the truth last November on the third of November, to be precise and I remember every instant since.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
This world’s problems can never be solved by those who make this world the object of their desires.
—J. Gresham Machen
External thinks are not the problem. It’s your assessment of them. Which you can erase right now.
—Marcus Aurelius
Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems.
I usually solve problems by letting them devour me.
—Franz Kafka
Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.
—Henry Ford
The idea of 10 dimensions might sound exciting, but they would cause real problems if you forget where you parked your car.
—Stephen Hawking
The meaning and design of a problem seem not to lie in its solution, but in our working at it incessantly.
—Carl Jung
Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science
—Charles Darwin
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
—Pablo Picasso
One is always a long way from solving a problem until one actually has the answer.
—Stephen Hawking
I gave up caring about anything, and all the problems disappeared.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
So the problem is not so much to see what nobody has yet seen, as to think what nobody has yet thought concerning that which everybody sees.
—Arthur Schopenhauer
All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone.
—Blaise Pascal
The scope of one’s personality is defined by the magnitude of that problem which is capable of driving a person out of his wits.
—Sigmund Freud
Worry more about your conscience than your reputation. Because your conscience is what you are, your reputation is what others think of you. And what others think of you is their problem.
—Charlie Chaplin
I have many problems in my life. But my lips don’t know that. They just keep smiling.
—Charlie Chaplin
A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.
—Albert Einstein
If you take your problem to God, leave it with God.
—Martyn Lloyd-Jones
If you told God on your knees that you had reached an impasse, and that you could not solve your problem, and that you were handing it over to Him, then leave it with Him.
—Martyn Lloyd-Jones
If I, like some people, believed that the success and the future of the Christian Church was dependent upon human ability and power and organization, if I believed that organized campaigns and so on were really going to solve the problem, I would be entirely hopeless.
—Martyn Lloyd-Jones
Looking to God means not dealing with a problem yourself, not consulting other people, but depending entirely upon God, and ‘waiting’ only upon Him.
—Martyn Lloyd-Jones
Get up into your watch-tower and just keep looking up to God. Look at nothing else, least of all your problem.
—Martyn Lloyd-Jones
I gave up caring about anything, and all the problems disappeared.
And it was after that that I found out the truth.
I learnt the truth last November on the third of November, to be precise and I remember every instant since.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science
—Charles Darwin