A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.

No problem can be solved from the same consciousness that created it.

The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problem.

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.

It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.

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.

If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.

Modern Society will find no solution to the ecological problem unless it takes a serious look at its lifestyles.

Thousands of salespeople are pounding the pavements today, tired, discouraged and underpaid. Why? Because they are always thinking only of what they want. They don't realize that neither you nor I want to buy anything. If we did, we would go out and buy it. But both of us are eternally interested in solving our problems. And if salespeople can show us how their services or merchandise will help us solve our problems, they won't need to sell us. We'll buy. And customers like to feel that they are buying - not being sold.

Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems.

Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.

At 7 a.m. all my voices start talking inside my head, and when it reaches a certain pitch I jump out and trap them before they're gone. Or I shower and then the voices talk. You solve problems not by thinking directly of them but allowing them to ferment in their own time.

I'm Winston Wolfe. I solve problems.

If I found any new truths in the sciences, I can say that they follow from, or depend on, five or six principal problems which I succeeded in solving and which I regard as so many battles where the fortunes of war were on my side.