Quotes on Answers

Philosophy: Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.

Author: Henry Adams

I question myself every day. That's what I still find motivating about this. I don't have the answers, I don't pretend that I do just because I won the match. Just keep fighting and maybe something good happens.

Author: Andre Agassi

I am very excited to be supporting one of the world's most visionary efforts to seek basic answers to some of the fundamental question about our universe and what other civilisations may exist elsewhere.

Author: Paul Allen

Questions structure and, so, to some extent predetermine answers.

Author: A. Ammons

The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose.

Author: Margaret Atwood

You don't want a million answers as much as you want a few forever questions. The questions are diamonds you hold in the light. Study a lifetime and you see different colors from the same jewel.

Author: Richard Bach

Hypothetical questions get hypothetical answers.

Author: Joan Baez

The great thing about The Clash of course is that they keep searching for answers beyond that.

Author: Lester Bangs

Scare answers to scare, and force begets force, until at length it comes to be seen that we are racing one against another after a phantom security which continually vanishes as we approach.

Author: Henry Bannerman

There are no pat answers - we're pushing through some new frontiers, and lessons of the past don't always apply.

Author: Jim Barksdale

As I walk'd by myself, I talk'd to myself, And myself replied to me; And the questions myself then put to myself, With their answers I give to thee.

Author: Bernard Barton

A major difficulty is that the answer to the Riddle of the Sphinx is partly a product of the answers that we already have given to the riddle in its various forms.

Author: Gregory Bateson

I was asking Charlie the most important questions, and you heard the answers.

Author: Edgar Bergen

The liberally educated person is one who is able to resist the easy and preferred answers, not because he is obstinate but because he knows others worthy of consideration.

Author: Allan Bloom

Shakespeare has no answers for us at all.

Author: Edward Bond

Real answers need to be found in dialogue and interaction and, yes, our shared human condition. This means being open to one another instead of simply fighting to maintain a prescribed position.

Author: Malcolm Boyd

In the past, I always used to be looking for answers. Today, I know there are only questions. So I just live.

Author: Sarah Brightman

When I photograph, what I'm really doing is seeking answers to things.

Author: Wynn Bullock

Libraries allow children to ask questions about the world and find the answers. And the wonderful thing is that once a child learns to use a library, the doors to learning are always open.

Author: Laura Bush

The reason I talk to myself is that I'm the only one whose answers I accept.

Author: George Carlin

We'd like to have immediate answers to all of our questions. I think medicine in particular. I found it frustrating as a physician sometimes to not be able to tell someone exactly why something was happening to them. There are still so many mysteries in medicine.

Author: Laurel Clark

I don't pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about.

Author: Arthur Clarke

We have no right to express an opinion until we know all of the answers.

Author: Kurt Cobain

The questions don't do the damage. Only the answers do.

Author: Sam Donaldson

If I wasn't Bob Dylan, I'd probably think that Bob Dylan has a lot of answers myself.

Author: Bob Dylan

I tried to use the questions and answers as an armature on which to build a sculpture of genuine conversation.

Author: Clifton Fadiman

Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers - six if one went to Harvard.

Author: Edgar Fiedler

Answers are not obtained by putting the wrong question and thereby begging the real one.

Author: Felix Frankfurter

The weeping voices rise straight up and strike the clouds. A passer-by at the roadside asks a conscript why, The conscript answers only that drafting happens often.

Author: Du Fu

The critics tend to forget their own answers after a while.

Author: Gina Gershon

The boldness of asking deep questions may require unforeseen flexibility if we are to accept the answers.

Author: Brian Greene

To play a good guy is nice because in a way, he is so open for answers.

Author: Joel Gretsch

There are no right answers to wrong questions.

Author: Ursula Guin

I like to write about things about which I have no answers, questions that trouble me. These things trouble me.

Author: Paul Haggis

I don't think it's the job of filmmakers to give anybody answers. I do think, though, that a good film makes you ask questions of yourself as you leave the theatre.

Author: Paul Haggis

Asking the right questions takes as much skill as giving the right answers.

Author: Robert Half

Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation.

Author: Elbert Hubbard

The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions.

Author: Antony Jay

And what I wanted to do was, I wanted to explore problems and areas where we didn't have answers. In fact, where we didn't even know the right questions to ask.

Author: Donald Johanson

Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.

Author: Janis Joplin

We have a world that is searching for answers, that is searching for a way back to spirituality.

Author: Moira Kelly

There are no explanations, there are no answers.

Author: Jessica Lange

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

Author: Claude Levi-Strauss

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

Author: Claude Levi-Strauss

The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he is one who asks the right questions.

Author: Claude Levi-Strauss

If you ask questions that interest you, you'll get answers that interest your audience.

Author: Kurt Loder

You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.

Author: Naguib Mahfouz

Conversely, beware the man who does nothing but ask you questions about yourself and offers no information about himself. Not only is he keeping you at bay, he is probably not listening to your answers.

Author: Merrill Markoe

Questions are a burden to others; answers are a prison for oneself.

Author: Patrick McGoohan

I have to laugh internally when I'm asked in interviews what nightspots I like to hit. I just don't have answers... so sometimes I make them up.

Author: Wentworth Miller

We hear only those questions for which we are in a position to find answers.

Author: Friedrich Nietzsche

All you have to do is know where you're going. The answers will come to you of their own accord.

Author: Earl Nightingale

I don't think you want to give all the answers, but I think every answer you do give should bring up another question, and not all questions should be answered.

Author: Kim Novak

Everyone has the answers.

Author: Robin Penn

You never have to know all the answers because you won't be asked all the questions.

Author: Herbert Prochnow

If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers.

Author: Thomas Pynchon

We owe it to the flood victims of New Orleans to give them truthful answers as to why this event took place and to assure our citizens that tragedies like this will never happen again.

Author: Charles Rangel

They say the world has become too complex for simple answers. They are wrong.

Author: Ronald Reagan

Ask the right questions if you're to find the right answers.

Author: Vanessa Redgrave

Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.

Author: Rainer Rilke

When you finally accept that it's OK not to have answers and it's OK not to be perfect, you realize that feeling confused is a normal part of what it is to be a human being.

Author: Winona Ryder

Good questions outrank easy answers.

Author: Paul Samuelson

It is possible to be different and still be all right. There can be two - or more - answers to the same question, and all can be right.

Author: Anne Schaef

It's most presumptuous to believe we already know all the answers and will never get any more big surprises.

Author: Stanley Schmidt

I still don't have all the answers. I'm more interested in what I can do next than what I did last.

Author: Charlie Sheen

A diploma only proves that you know how to look up answers.

Author: Solomon Short

The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.

Author: Susan Sontag

In order for answers to become clear, the questions have to be clear.

Author: Abdolkarim Soroush

An expert knows all the answers - if you ask the right questions.

Author: Levi Strauss

It is characteristic of the epistemological tradition to present us with partial scenarios and then to demand whole or categorical answers as it were.

Author: Avrum Stroll

It is the answers, not the questions, that are embarrassing.

Author: Helen Suzman

It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.

Author: James Thurber

My opposition to Interviews lies in the fact that offhand answers have little value or grace of expression, and that such oral give and take helps to perpetuate the decline of the English language.

Author: James Thurber

Being religious means asking passionately the question of the meaning of our existence and being willing to receive answers, even if the answers hurt.

Author: Paul Tillich

I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally.

Author: Calvin Trillin

What's the message in Metallica? There is no message, but if there was a message, it really should be look within yourself, don't listen to me, don't listen to James, don't listen to anybody, look within yourself for the answers.

Author: Lars Ulrich

The world's philosophers and theologians searched for answers to the same mysteries.

Author: Robert Vaughn

But as I said to Dr. Rice following her testimony, and I think she appreciated it, we had our job to do and we did it best we could, trying to get answers to the important questions that the 9/11 Commission must answer.

Author: Richard Veniste

He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.

Author: Voltaire

Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.

Author: Voltaire

Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are.

Author: Oscar Wilde

When the media ask George W. Bush a question, he answers, 'Can I use a lifeline?'

Author: Robin Williams

In the silence of reflection, the answers will often speak the loudest.

Author: Sophia Nguyen