Norman Vincent Peale Quotes

If you are unable to understand the cause of a problem it is impossible to solve it.

When I want to understand a problem, I want to understand it from the ground level.

You cannot solve a problem unless you diagnose the problem.

You can't solve a problem? Well, get down and investigate the present facts and [the problem's] past history! When you have investigated the problem thoroughly, you will know how to solve it.

If your project doesn't work, look for the part that you didn't think was important.

When I first came to Washington, what I admired most was that people were just really, really smart with a tremendous amount of intellectual horsepower and the ability to look at an issue and say something fresh.

Economists who have studied the relationship between education and economic growth confirm what common sense suggests: The number of college degrees is not nearly as important as how well students develop cognitive skills, such as critical thinking and problem-solving ability.

The scientific mind does not so much provide the right answers as ask the right questions.

To be intellectual does not require one to be alienated and oppositional.

As an engineer I'm constantly spotting problems and plotting how to solve them.

The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions.

All the business of war, and indeed all the business of life, is to endeavour to find out what you don't know by what you do; that's what I called 'guess what was at the other side of the hill'.

If you don’t understand how problems came to be, how are you going to know how to fix them?

It only takes a day to change someone from an anti-intellectual to an intellectual by persuading him that he might be one!

I am interested in finding solutions to problems.

Science is a way of getting knowledge. It's a method. It's a method that really relies on making mistakes. We propose ideas, they are usually wrong, and we test them against the data. Scientists do this in a formal way. It's a way that everyone can go through life; that's how we should be teaching science from a very young age.

What I knew was I liked math and science, and I never wanted to memorize everything. I wanted to understand where it came from.

Intellectuals are people who manage the world in their head. They look at life and try to see some kind of truth, and if they cannot find it, they attempt to create it.

I'm the kid that tried to take Latin in school because I felt if I could understand the root of everything, then I could understand why it worked. That was what took me into engineering. And the reason I stayed is, engineering teaches you to solve problems. It teaches you to think.

Education is far less about a set of facts than a way of thinking, than learning how to critically think. And therefore, what I always think should be the basis of education is not answers but questions.

I like to consider myself a problem solver. I don't like to spend a lot of time talking about the problem, stressing out or being dramatic about it. I like to try and figure out how I can fix it.

I just love to read, learn, and think through complex things.

What I love about research is when I'm having a bad day and I can't write, I'll just research some more, I'll learn some more and I'll have better command of the world of the film.

My philosophy is that we should ask the most important question that's capable of being solved.

Always make the choice to learn. What Princeton taught me was whatever mess you are studying, pull a thread with great persistence 'til you have clarity of thought. Princeton taught me how to solve a problem. How to think - that's what we pull out of this place.