“A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.”
“A problem can't be solved with the same level of thinking that created it.”
“You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created.”
“Problems cannot be solved with the same mind set that created them.”
“We can not solve our problems with the same level of thinking that created them”
“If I had an hour to solve a problem I'd spend 55 minutes thinking about the problem and 5 minutes thinking about solutions.”