Top 100 Answers But Quotes
#1. It seems to me that so much unhappiness in life comes not from a lack of answers, but from a lack of knowing the right questions to ask.
Rita Zoey Chin
#2. Yes, we like to think of our children as Macintosh computers operating in a world full of PCs; they get the same answers but process things differently.
Gina Gallagher
#3. Think about it. The industry generates billions of dollars of profit and revenue each year. They do so by selling answers. But if they had the answers, then these so-called answers would just be copied and pasted and handed out, and the industry itself would crumble.
Scott Abel
#4. We do not grow by knowing all of the answers, but rather by living with the questions.
Max De Pree
#5. I started philosophy looking for answers. But along the way I came to prize exploring the questions. Progress in philosophy consists, I think, in a clearer delineation of the conceptual options, not in reaching determinate conclusions.
Kwame Anthony Appiah
#6. The effective evangelist must engage not only at the level of the answers, but also at the level of the questions themselves.13
Russell D. Moore
#7. He had that hungry mind, constantly turning things over, looking not for answers but for understanding.
E. Lockhart
#8. The secrets of the universe aren't really secrets. It's just that humanity is too subjugated by their blissful ignorance to ask the right questions. When you have all of the answers, but are unable to ask any questions to them, then all you have are secrets.
Lionel Suggs
#10. Indeed, like so many encounters with Jesus in the Gospel stories, we might go to the Bible looking for answers, but we usually come away with more questions.
Timothy Beal
#11. We were a town full of fear, searching for answers. But we were also a town full of liars.
Megan Miranda
#12. People love answers, but only as long as they are the ones who came up with them.
Criss Jami
#13. The paradox of questioning is that simple questions can lead to detailed, on-target answers, but complicated questions get you single-word answers from a subject who doesn't want to talk, and unrestrained answers from a person who does.
James Pyle
#14. A celebrity life can be very fast-paced, and it can be hard to find meaning in it. I believe that everyone is looking for the answers, but the answers are within ourselves.
Miranda Kerr
#15. A smart person is not one that knows the answers, but one who knows where to find them ...
William Petersen
#16. Science strives for answers, but art is happy with a good question.
James Turrell
#17. Language was invented to ask questions. Answers may be given by grunts and gestures, but questions must be spoken. Humanness came of age when man asked the first question. Social stagnation results not from a lack of answers but from the absence of the impulse to ask questions.
Eric Hoffer
#18. The function of genius is not to give new answers, but to pose new questions which time and mediocrity can resolve.
Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper
#19. There's a difference between a mystery and a question. Questions demand answers, but a mystery demands something more valuable-explanation.
Robert Cialdini
#20. Google can bring you 100,000 answers but a librarian can bring you the right one.
~An Elegy for the Library
by Mahesh Rao
Mahesh Rao
#21. What would it profit thee to be the first Of echoes, tho thy tongue should live forever, A thing that answers, but hath not a thought As lasting but as senseless as a stone.
Frederick Tennyson
#22. Teachers say to me, 'The internet is full of rubbish, wrong answers.' But you would be surprised how just long it takes to find wrong information on Google, and where it's not obvious that it's wrong.
Sugata Mitra
#23. Ultimately, we are seeking a better understanding of what is means to be human. In this quest, progress is not made by finding the "right" answers, but by asking meaningful questions.
Terry Winograd
#24. The superficial and the slipshod have ready answers, but those looking this complex life straight in the eye acquire a wealth of perception so composed of delicately balanced contradictions that they dread, or resent, the call to couch any part of it in a bland generalization.
Peter De Vries
#25. Grief demands answers but one doesn't always get them.
Kavita Kane
#26. Just like life, it was over much too soon. And just like life, there weren't any answers. But like that one-in-an-eight-million great New York moment, I didn't need one. (Dark City Lights)
Peter Carlaftes
#27. Ku'Sox was indeed a demon. In. The. Sun. I needed answers, but I wanted them from Al, not ... Cute Socks here.
Kim Harrison
#28. Governments do not have the answers - indeed, quite the reversal. A lot of times, they not only do not have the answers, but they themselves are the problem. If we are committed to helping our world's children, then we must begin to create solutions from the bottom up.
Betty Williams
#29. freedom exists not in finding answers, but in the dissolution of all questions.
U.G. Krishnamurti
#30. Answers are what we are trying to get at; search is a process by which you may be able to get answers, but it's not the end goal. It's a mechanism.
Conrad Wolfram
#31. 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.
Kim Novak
#32. I didn't have all the answers, but at least I had a goal. Revenge. Who cared if it would eat me up inside and leave me hollow?
Brandon Sanderson
#33. Talk about beauty and you get boring answers, but talk about ugliness and things get interesting.
Rem Koolhaas
#34. Now he had answers, but they weren't doing what answers were supposed to do: they weren't making things simpler or easier. They weren't helping.
Lev Grossman
#35. Science doesn't have all the answers, but it is good at spotting the important questions when they are camouflaged against a background of common sense.
Richard Dawkins
#36. Information can tell us everything. It has all the answers. But they are answers to questions we have not asked, and which doubtless don't even arise.
Jean Baudrillard
#37. Who's to say? Life is not, as we are taught, a matter of seeking answers, but rather learning which are the questions we should ask.
Kate Mosse
#38. The skull regarded Ralph like one who knows all the answers but won't tell.
William Golding
#39. Leadership is no longer defined as "having the right answers," but as an ability to engage others to find the best solutions.
James D. Showkeir
#40. I may not have all the answers, but I do know the questions you no longer need answers for.
Robert J. Braathe
#41. Semantics, Admiral. I'd appreciate an honest answer."
"I'd appreciate a multitude of honest answers, but I rarely expect to receive them." Miriam sighed; the verbal tete-a-tete was growing tiresome. Time to bring an end to it with, ironically, honesty.
G.S. Jennsen
#42. The Bible is not a book of answers but a library of questions.
Timothy Beal
#43. We didn't invent music, so it's been here for a reason, and it has powers for a reason. So we should pay attention to it, because we might not know the clear answers but we should at least acknowledge that it is something there. To not be playin around with it.
Chuck D
#45. For now, I look to God, for I know He will respond to my questions. For I believe, in the deepest part of my heart, that He shall truly bring us into a frame of mind where we may hear His greatest responses . . . Perhaps not the final answers, but at the very least, the next response we need.
Alexandra Silber
#46. Stories don't give answers, but they do offer perspective.
Dan B. Allender
#47. I don't think women hold all the answers, but with their skills, their strengths, we can get to a better place.
Dee Dee Myers
#48. I want to know why. Why everything. I don't know the answers, but a few days ago I didn't know there were questions.
Terry Pratchett
#49. Enjoying life isn't about finding the answers, but living the questions.
Sue Margolis
#50. I didn't know the answers, but I could feel that the things that gave life meaning came from a place within and from the nurturing of values like tolerance, charity, and community.
Dick Van Dyke
#51. Responding with eyes filled with introspection and a soft, slow voice, Cayla confessed, "I don't. I don't have all the answers. But I cling desperately to the Hand of the One who does. Because sometimes that's just the best you can do.""
"Come What May"-Cayla to Abbie-
Laura A. Diaz
#52. Life is not a search for answers but the answer itself.
Marty Rubin
#53. wisdom is not having the right answers but having a proper sense of scale and perspective.
Jonathan Martin
#54. I still don't have all the answers, but I'm no longer afraid to confront the questions.
Pittacus Lore
#55. The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions.
Anthony Jay
#56. I'm always asking questions - not to find 'answers,' but to see where the questions lead. Dead ends sometimes? That's fine. New directions? Interesting. Great insights? Over-ambitious. A glimpse here and there? Perfect.
Lesley Hazleton
#57. I think that the task of philosophy is not to provide answers, but to show how the way we perceive a problem can be itself part of a problem.
Slavoj Zizek
#58. I feel like that religions generally ask the biggest questions. They may not always have the best answers, but they're the zone of human activity that regularly asks the biggest questions.
Ayad Akhtar
#59. In the old economy, it was all about having the answers. But in today's dynamic, lean economy, it's more about asking the right questions. A More Beautiful Question is about figuring out how to ask, and answer, the questions that can lead to new opportunities and growth.
Eric Ries
#60. I know the theological answers, but do my blood and my pulse?
Ann Voskamp
#61. People want black-and-white answers, but Scripture is rainbow arch across a stormy sky.
Sarah Bessey
#62. The uncreative mind can spot the wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot the wrong questions The question has never been: Do we have the money? The question has always been: Do we have the resources?
Jacque Fresco
#63. Real life is me searching for answers but winding up feeling more lost than ever. Looking
Autumn Doughton
#64. I feel that life is a series of very interesting questions, and very poor answers. But I myself am willing to settle for the questions. If the questions are interesting, I feel I evoke them in what I do. I feel that should be good enough for everyone else.
Jack Kirby
#65. We certainly don't yet know all the answers. But the universe is about to be pried open.
Lisa Randall
#66. I have little doubt that the single greatest obstacle to the impact of the gospel has not been its inability to provide answers, but the failure on our part to live it out.
Ravi Zacharias
#67. The wise men posit questions to which they may not always find immediate answers, but through their reflections God stimulates man in his search for truth - which in the last analysis is a search for God himself.
University Of Navarra
#68. I don't pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about.
Arthur C. Clarke
#69. A faith that moves mountains is a faith that expands horizons, it does not bring us into a smaller world full of easy answers, but into a larger one where there is room for wonder.
Rich Mullins
#70. People think of science like somehow that's the answer, and that it's all about right answers, but science is a lens that we look at the world through.
Dallas Campbell
#71. Knowing lots of answers but being a millisecond slow on the buzzer is indeed very frustrating.
Ken Jennings
#72. People you meet on your journey may not give you direct answers, but listen and observe. Everyone on your path presents a lesson for you.
Sheila Burke
#73. The best fiction rarely provides answers; but it does formulate the questions exceptionally well.
Julian Barnes
#74. God oft-times doesn't give a lot of answers but just keeps telling us who we are. God just keeps inviting us into that place where love is alive and where God is in love.
Richard Rohr
#76. Open questions like love, life, death, struggle and sex are our experiences, our opinions are not answers but they still remain mysterious unanswered questions. Let it be Open.
Santosh Kalwar
#77. As far as innovation goes, I can tell you that Korean students are reluctant to step out of line. If I ask questions, nobody raises their hands - not because they don't know the answers, but because they don't want to step out of line.
Dan Shechtman
#78. It is the function of a liberal university not to give right answers, but to ask right questions.
Cynthia Ozick
#79. Films that are entertainments give simple answers but I think that's ultimately more cynical, as it denies the viewer room to think. If there are more answers at the end, then surely it is a richer experience.
Michael Haneke
#80. Having gone through so many of the personal things I've gone through, its about creating an (online) space for girls to be heard. I don't profess to have all the answers. But Ask Elizabeth is a space where girls are not alone.
Elizabeth Berkley
#81. A great teacher is one who realizes that he himself is also a student and whose goal is not dictate the answers, but to stimulate his students' creativity enough so that they go out and find the answers themselves.
Herbie Hancock
#82. Not just art for art's sake, but I want to have films out there that will provoke authentic, holistic conversations about the human condition. And not provide the easy answers, but put it out there.
Isaiah Washington
#83. The days that stick in my mind are not the ones when I had the answers, but the ones when I didn't.
Susan Lute
#84. At high school they expect answers, but at university all you're supposed to do is dispute the wording of the question.
Eleanor Catton
#85. In the words of Max DePree: "Management has a lot to do with answers. But leadership is a function of questions. And the first question for a leader always is: 'Who do we intend to be?' Not 'What are we going to do?' but 'Who do we intend to be?'"
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
#86. It's frustrating when you know all the answers, but nobody bothers to ask you the questions.
Jill Shalvis
#87. I think there are certain questions that get asked in comics over and over again, and people want definitive answers, but I feel like there shouldn't be definitive answers.
Greg Rucka
#88. Well, my head's full of questions My temp'rature's risin' fast Well, I'm lookin' for some answers But I don't know who to ask
Ronald Reagan
#89. We want to go to God for answers, but sometimes what we get is God's presence.
Nadia Bolz-Weber
#90. I have learned that God's silence to my questions is not a door slammed in my face. I may not have the answers - but I do have him.
Dave Dravecky
#91. I have come here not to find answers, but to find a way to live in a world without any.
Sue Monk Kidd
#92. There are no easy answers, but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.
Ronald Reagan
#93. Some of these questions don't have finite answers, but the questions themselves are important. Don't stop asking, and don't let anybody tell you the questions aren't worth it. They are.
Madeleine L'Engle
#94. And yet, unlearn we must, for technology relentlessly transforms the playing field, changing not just the answers but the questions as well.
Louis Rosenfeld
#95. I don't get it,' Caroline said, bemused. 'She's the only one with wings. Why is that?'
There were so many questions in life. You couldn't ever have all the answers. But I knew this one.
It's so she can fly,' I said. Then I started to run.
Sarah Dessen
#96. I don't understand why there aren't more powerful female directors. I don't have the answers, but I hope that things may start to shift and that studios will employ more women to handle strong and interesting material.
Sam Taylor-Johnson
#97. My work makes people understand things in a visual way that I could never understand in a literal way - like the way you deal with and break down problems, and don't come up with answers, but [find] a pathway that becomes clearer.
Ali Banisadr
#98. The thing I loved, particularly, was the mystery of science and the idea that science doesn't know all the answers, but it is a process of finding out. It's not like science will give you the right answer and science knows everything. I love the mysteries of it.
Dallas Campbell
#99. Well, sure, maybe religion serves a purpose, but maybe religion's role is not to give us the answers, but to give us the questions, not to resolve the mystery of life, but to increase our wonder at the things we don't know.
Anna Hammond
#100. People have explored these questions ['Why am I here?', 'What is life about?'] in poems, not that they found their answers, but in reading [poems], I think, you find a certain beauty in the questioning, and that is then poetry.
Gwee Li Sui
