False Solutions Quotes

In the life of a nation, few ideas are more dangerous than good solutions to the wrong problems.

The easy solution isn't the solution, it's the problem.

We will not try to out-Ukip Ukip. Labour is not going to offer false solutions, such as leaving Europe.

For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.

The fact that I have no remedy for all the sorrows of the world is no reason for my accepting yours. It simply supports the strong probability that yours is a fake.

The principle of Sturgeon's Razor states that the simplest answer to any problem is 90% crap.

The very concept of sin comes from the Bible. Christianity offers to solve a problem of its own making! Would you be thankful to a person who cut you with a knife in order to sell you a bandage?

The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.

The actual Blue Rose murders, which lie at the core of the three novels, yield various incorrect solutions which assume the status of truth.

It's hard to look at [Donald] Trump as a hopeful sign because, in his own way, he is offering false solutions to many problems.

When a banana gets rotten people love to tell you that you can make banana bread out of it. I have never seen anyone actually do it.

Like all religions, Reason presents itself as the solution to the problems it has created

We need to confront our real problems, not indulge in false solutions that make them worse.

Many an injustice is presented as solution and gift.

Television screens saturated with commercials promote the utopian and childish idea that all problems have fast, simple, and technological solutions. You must banish from your mind the naive but commonplace notion that commercials are about products. They are about products in the same sense that the story of Jonah is about the anatomy of whales.

The greatest gift of God to us today is right guidance. The enemy has money that he can throw at problems but the problems never get solved because we're violating the good guidance and warning that God sent to us through the Honorable Elijah Muhammad.

Drugs are delusive; they do not adjust anything.

If studying the periodic table taught me nothing else, it's that the credulity of human beings for periodic table panaceas is pretty much boundless.

To multiply the harbors does not reduce the sea.

People act as though the hybrid could solve all of our problems - which is certainly not the case.

True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to 'principles,' and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular solution.

The disease having been caused by allowing cleverness to displace wisdom, no amount of clever research is likely to produce a cure.

We know that no algorithm can solve global poverty; no pill can cure a chronic illness; no box of chocolates can mend a broken relationship; no educational DVD can transform a child into a baby Einstein; no drone strike can end a terrorist conflict. Sadly, there is no such thing as 'One Tip to a Flat Stomach.'

Politicians, ideologists, theologians and philosophers try time and again to provide solutions with nothing remaining: prefab solved problems.

Just saying no prevents teenage pregnancy the way 'Have a nice day' cures chronic depression.