“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.”
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
“We cannot solve life's problems except by solving them.”
Source: The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth
Last update April 19, 2025. History
Help us to complete the source, original and additional information
Do you have more details about the quote "We cannot solve life's problems except by solving them." by M. Scott Peck?
M. Scott Peck26
American psychiatrist 1936–2005Related quotes
“If you cannot solve the proposed problem, try to solve first a simpler related problem.”
George Pólya (1887–1985) Hungarian mathematician
Mathematical Methods in Science (1977), p.164
“We cannot solve the problems using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them”
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
"Einstein's famous saying in Copenhagen", as quoted in a FBIS Daily Report https://books.google.de/books?id=DfQTAQAAMAAJ&q=%22We+cannot+solve%22: East Europe (4 April 1995), p. 45 <br class="br">Disputed
“If a problem cannot be solved, enlarge it.”
Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890–1969) American general and politician, 34th president of the United States (in office from 1953 to 1961)
As quoted in Baseball's Greatest Quotes (1992) by Paul Dickson; cited in "Game Day in the Majors" at the Library of Congress http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/robinson/jrgmday.html
Angus King (1944) United States Senator from Maine
Stating that he was considering a run as an Independent for US Senate after Olympia Snowe's surprise announcement that she would be retiring from it, as quoted in "Olympia Snowe Retirement Causes Maine Scramble" in the Associated Press (29 February 2012) http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/29/olympia-snowe-retirement-maine_n_1310524.html <br class="br">Context: I'm giving it some thought for the very reason that Olympia quit. It's just not working down there and maybe we need to try something different. … We have serious problems in this country but we can't begin to solve them until we solve this shrill deadlock.
Theodore Roosevelt The Strenuous Life
1900s, The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses (1900), The Strenuous Life
“Given that we cannot know all the elements in a problem, we never can solve it.”
Fernando Pessoa book The Book of Disquiet
Ibid., p. 282
The Book of Disquiet
Original: Como nunca podemos conhecer todos os elementos de uma questão, nunca a podemos resolver.