We only think when confronted with a problem. John Dewey
The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in the relations between human beings, and in the end the communicator will be confronted with the old problem, of what to say and how to say it. Edward R. Murrow
Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one's beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses. James Baldwin
The ordinary man looking at a mountain is like an illiterate person confronted with a Greek manuscript. Aleister Crowley
But I know human nature, my friend, and I tell you that, suddenly confronted with the possibility of being tried for murder, the most innocent person will lose his head and do the most absurd things. Agatha Christie
A pessimist, confronted with two bad choices, chooses both. Jewish Proverb