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You can't solve problems with the same thinking that caused them.
Sep 18, 2025
You can't solve your problems by using the same thinking that got you into those problems in the first place.
The same thinking and actions that created our problems cannot be used to solve them.
The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them.
The thinking it took to get us into this mess is not the same thinking that is going to get us out of it.
The same thinking that has led you to where you are is not going to lead you to where you want to go.
One of the easiest ways to solve your problems is to look at how others have solved a similar problem. So, in this regard, we are using the same thinking of others.
One cannot deal with a problem with the same thinking that creates it.
The world will not evolve past its current state of crisis by using the same thinking that created the situation.
The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.
No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler. A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be. We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them. A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy? Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
Learn From Yesterday, Live for Today, hope for tomorrow.
Learn from yesterday, live for today.
But, to the extent that I cannot solve MY problem with the same thinking I used when I created it, you're right. We need the fresh air that comes from others to see things in other ways.
If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.
Whether your focus is on preserving and strengthening family ties in a world of increasingly unstable relationships, gaining access to a decent job, growing and evolving as a person, or guiding a company through the stormy seas of a fiercely competitive global marketplace-whether your goals are material, emotional, or spiritual-the price of success is the same: thinking, learning. To be asleep at the wheel-to rely only on the known, familiar, and automatized-is to invite disaster.
History is the same thing over and over again.
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
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