112 Problems With Famous Quotes

In a world where words have the power to inspire, provoke, and resonate, famous quotes often serve as guiding lights. But what happens when these powerful snippets are met with scrutiny? Some quotes, despite their widespread acclaim, pose unintended contradictions, paradoxes, or even invite misinterpretations. In this exploration of "112 Problems With Famous Quotes," we delve into the complexities and controversies surrounding some of the most celebrated sayings. Join us as we uncover the nuances and challenges these iconic phrases present—revealing that even words of wisdom are not immune to criticism and debate.

1. “The problems are solved, not by giving new information, but by arranging what we have known since long.” - Ludwig Wittgenstein

2. “The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.” - Bertrand Russell

3. “The best way out is always through.” - Robert Frost

4. “If a problem is fixable, if a situation is such that you can do something about it, then there is no need to worry. If it's not fixable, then there is no help in worrying. There is no benefit in worrying whatsoever.” - Dalai Lama XIV

5. “I think that little by little I'll be able to solve my problems and survive.” - Frida Kahlo

6. “Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.” - Ernest Benn

7. “The difficult problems in life always start off being simple. Great affairs always start off being small.” - Lao Tzu

8. “Every problem comes with a baggage of solutions.” - Santosh Kalwar

9. “The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or by duplication” - Susan Sontag

10. “Problems are only opportunities with thorns on them.” - Hugh Miller

11. “A heart has problems which mind cannot understand.” - Santosh Kalwar

12. “Sometimes I get so caught up in my own problems that I forget how amazing the world is.” - Wendelin Van Draanen

13. “I finally faced the fact that it isn`t a crime not having friends. Being alone means you have fewer problems.” - whitney houston

14. “And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.” - Haruki Murakami

15. “We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluable problems.” - Lee Iacocca

16. “We tend to be preoccupied by our problems when we have a heightened sense of vulnerability and a diminished sense of power. Today, see each problem as an invitation to prayer.” - John Ortberg

17. “Si al final mis problemas no eran solubles, cuando menos serían adulterables.” - Xavier Velasco

18. “Sometimes life knocks you on your ass... get up, get up, get up!!! Happiness is not the absence of problems, it's the ability to deal with them.” - Steve Maraboli

19. “The universe is so well balanced that the mere fact that you have a problem also serves as a sign that there is a solution.” - Steve Maraboli

20. “It was a strange feeling going into a church I did not know for a service that I did not really believe in, but once inside I couldn't help a feeling of warmth and security. Outside there were wars and road accidents and murders, striptease clubs and battered babies and frayed tempers and unhappy marriages and people contemplating suicide and bad jokes, but once in St. Martin's there was peace. Surely people go to church not to involve themselves in the world's problems but to escape from them.” - Michael Palin

21. “I don't see much future for the Americans ... it's a decayed country. And they have their racial problem, and the problem of social inequalities ... my feelings against Americanism are feelings of hatred and deep repugnance ... everything about the behaviour of American society reveals that it's half Judaised, and the other half negrified. How can one expect a State like that to hold together?” - Adolf Hitler

22. “The Whites have carried to these (colonial) people the worst that they could carry: the plagues of the world: materialism, fanaticism, alcoholism, and syphilis. Moreover, since what these people possessed on their own was superior to anything we could give them, they have remained themselves... The sole result of the activity of the colonizers is: they have everywhere aroused hatred.” - Adolf Hitler

23. “Our problems stem from our acceptance of this filthy, rotten system.” - Dorothy Day

24. “It turned out this man worked for the Dalai Lama. And she said gently-that they believe when a lot of things start going wrong all at once, it is to protect something big and lovely that is trying to get itself born-and that this something needs for you to be distracted so that it can be born as perfectly as possible.” - Anne Lamott

25. “I don't want to be a genius-I have enough problems just trying to be a man.” - Albert Camus

26. “The greater part of the world's troubles are due to questions of grammar.” - Michel de Montaigne

27. “Once you become aware that the main business that you are here for is to know God, most of life's problems fall into place of their own accord.” - J.I. Packer

28. “Maybe you don't just have one Goliath. Maybe you have his whole family!” - Joyce Meyer

29. “That's what I love about Aibileen, she can take the most complicated things in life and wrap them up so small and simple, they'll fit right in your pocket.” - Kathryn Stockett

30. “Maybe some folks are alcoholics and others are just voluntary drunks. Maybe some folks drink due to body chemistry and others due to their lazy characters. Maybe some have drinking problems, while others have problems enough to drink.” - George Jones

31. “Life is not easy. We all have problems-even tragedies-to deal with, and luck has nothing to do with it. Bad luck is only the superstitious excuse for those who don't have the wit to deal with the problems of life. ” - Joan Lowery Nixon

32. “Generally speaking, books don't cause much harm. Except when you read them, that is. Then they cause all kinds of problems.” - Pseudonymous Bosch

33. “Die Judenfrage,' it used to be called, even by Jews. 'The Jewish Question.' I find I quite like this interrogative formulation, since the question—as Gertrude Stein once famously if terminally put it—may be more absorbing than the answer. Of course one is flirting with calamity in phrasing things this way, as I learned in school when the Irish question was discussed by some masters as the Irish 'problem.' Again, the word 'solution' can be as neutral as the words 'question' or 'problem,' but once one has defined a people or a nation as such, the search for a resolution can become a yearning for the conclusive. Endlösung: the final solution.” - Christopher Hitchens

34. “Many people pray to be kept out of unexpected problems. Some people pray to be able to confront and overcome them.” - Toba Beta [Betelgeuse Incident]

35. “Look, I know you meant well creating the world and all, but how could you let it get away from you like this? How come you couldn't stick with your original idea of paradise? People's lives were a mess.” - Sue Monk Kidd

36. “The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them.” - Albert Einstein

37. “Sandry: "There has to be something we can do." Lark: "We're mages. We do what we can, but some problems are too big to fix." Sandry: "Then I wish I weren't a mage. What good is magic, if you can't use it to help people.” - Tamora Pierce

38. “And that is how Goodwin problems were always fixed. Fix them on the surface but don't go to the root, always ignoring the elephant in the room. I think that morning was when I realized I'd grown up with an elephant in every room of my life. It was practically our family pet.” - Cecelia Ahern

39. “Velké problémy neexistují. Jsou jen malí lidé.” - Laurent Gounelle

40. “Hard is trying to rebuild yourself, piece by piece, with no instruction book, and no clue as to where all the important bits are supposed to go.” - Nick Hornby

41. “If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience.” - Robert Fulghum

42. “In everybody’s life there’s a point of no return. And in a very few cases, a point where you can’t go forward anymore. And when we reach that point, all we can do is quietly accept the fact. That’s how we survive.” - Haruki Murakami

43. “Never cry because you have mountains of problem in your hands to solve. Always smile because each problems will someday resolve.” - Santosh Kalwar

44. “My mother used to tell me, “Things always look worse at night.” For the most part, I believe her. But some of the troubles that keep me from sleeping look just as bad in the morning.” - Carolyn Custis James

45. “People like to think the worst. They like to have hushed gossip sessions and point their fingers at someone's problems that are more obvious than their own.” - Marcia Lynn McClure

46. “It's always me, isn't it? I'm not really a very nice person, but for some reason it's always me that they come to with their problems.” - Jeff Lindsay

47. “Any problems that may occur have ultimately been caused by you, because you are responsible for where you are and what you are doing there.” - Garth Stein

48. “Yeah. I'm the fly in the soup. I don't like it any better than you do. Flies don't like being swamped in soup, especially when it's hot.” - Rex Stout

49. “The huge problems we deal with every day are actually really small. We’re so focused on what bothers usthat we don’t even try to see our lives from a clearer perspective.” - Susane Colasanti

50. “Love begets wisdom, thus it is, as often misconceived, more than vain layers of tenderness; it is inherently rational and comprehensive of the problem within the problem: for instance, envy is one of the most excused sins in the media of political correctness. Those you find most attractive, or seem to have it all, are often some of the most insecure at heart, and that is because people assume that they do not need anything but defamation.” - Criss Jami

51. “Be confident in your approach to success in having a better future. Take risks, try new things, become diligent, and find new techniques because in the end you will develop a compelling emotional element.” - Jonathan Anthony Burkett

52. “There are two dilemmas that rattle the human skull: How do you hang onto someone who won't stay? And how do you get rid of someone who won't go?” - Danny De Vito

53. “Did you have a rough month? I did :( but, you know what? There’s no time to dwell on a missed opportunity or worry about what I should’ve done or said, beating myself up & making myself miserable about my mistakes. That doesn’t work. So will take notes from that, put it behind me, move on & finish the year STRONG” - Pablo

54. “People often ask, "What is the single most important environmental population problem facing the world today?" A flip answer would be, "The single most important problem is our misguided focus on identifying the single most important problem!” - Jared Diamond

55. “Many of our problems are broadly similar to those that undermined ... Norse Greenland, and that many other past societies also struggled to solve. Some of those past societies failed (like the Greenland Norse) and others succeeded ... The past offers us a rich database from which we can learn in order that we may keep on succeeding.” - Jared Diamond

56. “A good problem is something you don't know how to solve. That's what makes it a good puzzle and a good opportunity.” - Paul Lockhart

57. “There are always answers. We just have to be smart enough.” - John Green

58. “This worldthat was our homefor a brief spellnever brought us anythingbut pain and grief;its a shame that not one of our problemswas ever solved.We departwith a thousand regretsin our hearts.” - Omar Khayyám

59. “Every solution to every problem is simple. It's the distance between the two where the mystery lies.” - Derek Landy

60. “I've never met a problem a proper cupcake couldn't fix.” - Sarah Ockler

61. “Snow and adolescence are the only problems that disappear if you ignore them long enough.” - Earl Wilson

62. “No one has a problem with the first mile of a journey. Even an infant could do fine for a while. But it isn't the start that matters. It's the finish line.” - Julien Smith

63. “I told her running away from your problems doesn't solve anything. Really it just hurts the people who count on you.” - Kyle Beachy

64. “Why hasn't someone lassoed a few teenagers and had them sit down and write out all the supposed answers they have so we can solve the world's problems already?” - Richelle E. Goodrich

65. “One way to get high blood pressure is to go mountain climbing over molehills.” - Earl Wilson

66. “I believe in political solutions to political problems. But man's primary problems aren't political; they're philosophical. Until humans can solve their philosophical problems, they're condemned to solve their political problems over and over and over again. It's a cruel, repetitious bore.” - Tom Robbins

67. “Well, if it can be thought, it can be done, a problem can be overcome,” - E.A. Bucchianeri

68. “Sometimes problems don’t require a solution to solve them; instead they require maturity to outgrow them.” - Steve Maraboli

69. “When I feel the heat, I see the light.” - Everett Dirksen

70. “But perhaps there are in us forces other than mind and heart, other even than the senses - mysterious forces which take hold of us in the moments when the others are asleep; and perhaps it was such forces that Melchior had found in the depths of those pale eyes which had looked at him so timidly one evening when he had accosted the girl on the bank of the river, and had sat down beside her in the reeds - without knowing why - and had given her his hand.” - Romain Rolland

71. “Usually, the main problem with life conundrums is that we don't bring to them enough imagination” - Thomas Moore

72. “Give serious thought to why your company should care about your strategy. Specifically, find problems that the board wants to be solved. What are senior managers scared of? Part of becoming a credible strategic thinker is learning effective approaches to selling ideas for your situation. You’ll know that you’re getting better at selling (or pitching) strategy when managers start coming to you when there is strategic thinking to be done.” - Max Mckeown

73. “Είμαστε εξαιρετικά ανώτεροι και υποχωρητικοί στα προβλήματα όταν δε μας τσούζουν προσωπικά” - Μάρω Βαμβουνάκη

74. “It might be depressing, but it's also the truth that no one has the power, the money, or the resources to save everyone on the planet from going hungry, living in poverty or allowed basic human rights. But consider the other side of this: there are people in this world who truly WOULD do all of these things for everyone if only they could. There is hope after all.” - Ashly Lorenzana

75. “Life is full of signs. The trick is to know how to read them. Ghosh called this heuristics, a method for solving a problem for which no formula exists.” - Abraham Verghese

76. “What a pity human beings can't exchange problems. Everyone knows exactly how to solve the other fellow's.” - Olin Miller

77. “I have heard all that you have had to say to me on your problems.You ask me what to do about them.It is my view that your real problem is that you are a member of the human race.Face that one first.” - Idries Shah

78. “We both liked children; we just didn't want any ourselves. There were children everywhere, and we saw no reason to start our own brand. Young couples plunge into parenthood and about half the time they end up with some ghastly problem on their hands. We thought we'd leave that to others.” - Thomas McGuane

79. “Whenever you don't know someone and you overhear their problems they always sound so trivial.” - Cat Agonis

80. “The art of being wise is the art of knowing that solutions don’t come from individuals, but rather experiences.” - Shannon L. Alder

81. “On an important decision one rarely has 100% of the information needed for a good decision no matter how much one spends or how long one waits. And, if one waits too long, he has a different problem and has to start all over. This is the terrible dilemma of the hesitant decision maker.” - Robert K. Greenleaf

82. “If you continue to dig the same hole in the same place in your life, eventually you will be standing in a grave.” - Shannon L. Alder

83. “Our lives, as short as they may be, are a test. And one of the biggest tests we can endure is how we respond to those moments when we don’t feel the presence of God in our lives. I believe deeply that one of God’s greatest gifts is to teach us there is a purpose behind every single one of our trials or problems.Treat them as a gift, an opportunity to move forward and draw closer to God. Problems often times compel us to look to God and count on him, rather than ourselves.” - Matt Patterson

84. “I’ve got a question for you… Are you the person who you thought you’d be by now? I know I am not. The fact is that life may not be what you thought it would be by now (If It is, I congratulate you & applaud you) You may feel stuck in a job you don’t like, not making enough money, jobless, or maybe you are in a bad relationship/marriage, or unhappy because you are out of shape…but don’t let that get you down.The key is 2 focus on what you have (Health,Fam,friends etc) instead of what you don’t have. And also in the things that you have done (Finished a Race-College/Got that Diploma/Raise a Family etc) Instead of the things you haven’t done. yetIF where you are now, it’s not where you want to be…know that where you’re going is far more important than where you are now or where you’ve been.Forgive yourself, Accept the current situation & MOVE ON, knowing that from now on you will focus your time & energy on the possibilities & opportunities that lie ahead 4 you in the near future.” - Pablo

85. “There is no problem too large that God can’t handle,” Mamm assured. “Besides, God showed me a wonderful verse from His Word. Romans chapter eight verse twenty-eight: And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.” - J.E.B. Spredemann

86. “The smallest issues can become the most important things in life and reality slips away.” - David Millar

87. “It seems only easier when money is involved.” - Anthony Liccione

88. “People that have trust issues only need to look in the mirror. There they will meet the one person that will betray them the most.” - Shannon L. Alder

89. “...one can't avoid the storms and calamities of life, but one can at least find the right partner to face them with.” - Lisa Kleypas

90. “I had to learn what my grandfather and mother knew about some of this journey’s problems. My job was to sit back and let the Lord work it out according to His will. That’s the best way —always!” - Deborah L. Parker

91. “I hate to admit this, but some days hearing about other people's problems actually cheers me up.” - Susan Elizabeth Phillips

92. “The reason everything falls apart around me, but I don’t is because my angels keep me standing up.” - Shannon L. Alder

93. “The theatre is a place where one has time for the problems of people to whom one would show the door if they came to one's office for a job.” - Tennessee Williams

94. “Give life long enough and it will solve all your problems, including the one of being alive.” - colum mccann

95. “We can fix that. We can fix anything. So the real question remains whether every problem is worth fixing.” - Kaya McLaren

96. “For every evil under the sun,There is a remedy, or there is none.If there be one, try and find it;If there be none, never mind it.” - Mother Goose Rhymes

97. “Sometimes in life there's no problem and sometimes in there is no solution. In this space - between these apparent poles - life flows.” - Rasheed Ogunlaru

98. “We try to fix the outside so much, but our control of the outer world is limited, temporary, and often, illusory.” - Matthieu Ricard

99. “A hundred pounds! He couldn't remember ever having seen a hundred pounds, all at one time. He found himself envying his father, who had nothing to worry about except the future of mankind.” - John Mortimer

100. “Pain is pain...Just because one person's problem is less traumatic than another's doesn't mean they're required to hurt less.” - J.A. Redmerski The Edge of Never

101. “Sometimes I think if we didn’t have these problems the whole world would stop spinning on her axis, we’d all stop spinning on our axises, axes, or whatever you want to call them, and then we’d have to settle into the nasty business of finding a way to be happy.” - Daniel Clausen

102. “Sometimes, the only way to solve your problems in life, the only way to conquer your fears, is if you face them. If you face your problems, they just flee. But if you flee instead, run away from them, they only get bigger, and they can totally destroy you.” - Elizabeth Newton

103. “God doesn't take away the problem. He gives you a different solution, and that solution lies in the power only He can give you.” - Nancy Rue

104. “Every violent storm will eventually give way to sunshine; every dark night will finally fade into dawn.” - Steve Goodier

105. “Q: What is wrong with the world?A: Everybody pays attention to pictures of things. Nobody pays attention to things themselves.” - Kurt Vonnegut

106. “An idle tongue is the mother of all conflicts.” - Dennis E. Adonis

107. “All of us had problems, it seemed, whose sources were untraceable, crossing over one another like the trajectories of countless raindrops in a storm, blending to create a fog of delusion and counter-delusion. Powerful forces and connections were undoubtedly at play, yet they seemed to have no faces and no names, and it was anybody's guess what we - a crowd of deluded no-talents - could have possibly done to offend them. We had been caught up in a season of hideous magic from which nothing could offer us deliverance.("Gas Station Carnivals")” - Thomas Ligotti

108. “Oh, Clay darling, if you had told me you were feeling irritated because of your...problems, I wouldn't have made a fuss." She knew very well the changelings around her could hear every whispered word."Tally." It was a warning growl."I mean it must be embarrassing for you...being that you're such a big man." her tone implied all sorts of things. "Last night was an aberration, I'm sure. And if not, there are always the pills.” - Nalini Singh

109. “Our problems may tower over us, but God towers over our problems.” - Dillon Burroughs

110. “It is not the size of our problems but the size of our God that matters most.” - Dillon Burroughs

111. “We may not understand why certain things occur in our lives, but we understand who to run to when they do.” - Dillon Burroughs

112. “In Shahid's view, the best way through difficult times, as through life in general, was just to go along with things. It was a rare problem that couldn't be solved by being ignored.” - John Lanchester