Top 100 Quotes About Answers
#1. The answers are in you, not around you.
Dan Groat
#2. The answers we seek aren't always the answers we want, are they? But knowing the truth is what helps us sleep at night.
Karen White
#3. They (theological liberals)seemed to know what the answer was supposed to be and weren't much concerned with how to get there. They knew only that whatever answers the Fundamentalists came up with must be wrong.
Eric Metaxas
#4. If you have competence, you know the edge. It wouldnt be a competence if you didnt know where the boundaries lie. Asking whether youve passed the boundary is a question that almost answers itself.
Charlie Munger
#5. These people we call Mom and Dad, they bring us into the world and then they don't follow through with what we need, or provide any answers at all really
it's a fend-for-yourself free-for-all in the end, and I'm just not cut out for that sort of living.
Matthew Quick
#6. God never answers prayers. It is people who answer their own prayers by knowing how to connect and utilize the divine energy of the Creator and the God-like force in their own souls.
Yehuda Berg
#7. Keep your eyes on the future, because that's where the answers are. It's where the hope is.
Holly Cupala
#8. Science is incapable of supplying answers to ultimate questions about why things exist and what their purpose is.
Nicola Cabibbo
#9. My best teachers were not the ones who knew all the answers, but those who were deeply excited by questions they couldn't answer.
Brian Greene
#10. I am left without answers. There are only questions I must answer for myself. What is the balance between home and the road? Hearth and horizon? Between what is and what could be?
Gloria Steinem
#11. If you're really looking for answers, look past me. But if you're interested in how I got to where I am, I will be as honest as possible.
Rich Mullins
#12. Ann turns to me. I know she's waiting for some hint of kindness-a kiss, an embrace, even a smile. But I can't muster any of it.
"You'll make a fine governess." My words are like a slap.
"I know," she answers, a slap of her own.
Libba Bray
#13. In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
Christopher Morley
#14. I'm not that guy who thinks I have all the answers. Writing is a means of communicating, and if enough people say, 'I don't get it,' it's worth looking at.
Noah Hawley
#15. I consider fantasy the heir of mythology, addressing a real human need to seek out answers to life's many mysteries. It is a genre that can tell an entertaining and enthralling story on the surface, and yet deliver a potent message underneath, where everything becomes a symbol of something greater.
Dean F. Wilson
#16. There is no one else we can run to whose opinion is higher - or holier - than the Lord's. He, alone, has the answers to what we face, and His sovereignty assures us that we can trust Him, even when everything around us is whirling out of control.
Various
#17. Don't assume that because everyone believes a thing, that it is right or wrong. Reason things out for yourself. Work to get answers on your own. Understand why you believe things.
Avi
#18. What you realize is that a lot of actors want to be directed. They're there to do the best job they can for the director. They have a lot of questions, and your job is to have answers.
Jon Turteltaub
#20. What do you want to achieve or avoid? The answers to this question are objectives. How will you go about achieving your desire results? The answer to this you can call strategy.
William E. Rothschild
#21. We impoverish God in our minds when we say there must be answers to our prayers on the material plane; the biggest answers to our prayers are in the realm of the unseen.
Oswald Chambers
#22. 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.
James Thurber
#23. Sometimes the answers are not there until we stand still and listen. But they are there and they are usually surrounded by love. You are too.
Jan Hellriegel
#24. He who knows all the answers, but none of the questions is like a large gobbling bird on Thanksgiving.
Jayce O'Neal
#25. I don't know. I imagine good teaching as a circle of earnest people sitting down to ask each other meaningful questions. I don't see it as a handing down of answers ...
Alice Walker
#26. There are answers which, in turning away wrath, only send it to the other end of the room, and to have a discussion coolly waived when you feel that justice is all on your own side is even more exasperating in marriage than in philosophy.
George Eliot
#27. I picked out a question with care. You have to be careful with strangers; questions can reveal as much as answers -Eve
Michele Jaffe
#28. . A terrible battle between two wolves. One wolf is bad - pride, jealousy, greed. The other wolf is good - kindness, hope, truth. The child asks, 'Who will win?' The grandfather answers simply, 'The one you feed.
Tristan Bancks
#29. I do not like half answers.'
'Stop asking half questions, then,' he said, and smiled with sudden charm.
Katherine Arden
#30. (both circumvented the handicap of deafness by answering only those questions they believed had been asked & accepting only those answers they believed had been uttered - a stratagem embraced by many an American advocate)
David Mitchell
#31. In Delhi, politicians and intellectuals privately bemoaned the "irrationality" of the uneducated Indian masses, but when the government itself provided false answers to its citizens' urgent concerns, rumor and conspiracy took wing. Sometimes, the conspiracies became a consolation for loss.
Katherine Boo
#32. Why were there some people who seemed so sure of themselves that it made him feel small and ignorant by comparison, as if they had a script to life with all the answers on it? He felt he didn't even know the questions.
Marcus Sedgwick
#33. If you ever think you have all the answers, it's time to retire.
Donalyn Miller
#34. magazines don't exist to make you feel good about yourself. They exist to keep you insecure so you'll buy their magazines looking for answers.
Trent Shelton
#35. It's true what they say about answers only leading to more questions. There will always be more to find out, more to learn, more to do.
Kendare Blake
#36. I would stare at the grains of light suspended in that silent space, struggling to see into my own heart. What did I want? And what did others want from me? But I could never find the answers. Sometimes I would reach out and try to grasp the grains of light, but my fingers touched nothing.
Haruki Murakami
#37. Where any answer is possible, all answers are meaningless.
Isaac Asimov
#38. I can't just give you all the answers. You have to earn the right to be the Progeny. - Eve
Candace Knoebel
#39. There's no use in asking what if. No one could ever give you the answers.
Jenny Han
#41. There's no point thinking, 'Well, my life's certainly worked out, I've got all the answers.' It would be wrong for me to say that I don't get seduced by certain things. That things don't become tempting.
Michael Fassbender
#42. Long exasperated by questions without answers, by answers without consequences, by truths which change nothing, we learn to become intoxicated by the mood of mystery itself, by the odor of the unknown. We are entranced by the subtle scents and wavering reflections of the unimaginable.
Thomas Ligotti
#43. I wanted answers, and I was afraid of what those answers might be.
C.J. Anaya
#44. Every question was also an opportunity to create an impression that would guide how all subsequent answers to questions got interpreted.
Greg Carlson
#45. This would most effectively open them to the answers they needed, seeing us as allies in their search and not as rivals.
David Leigh
#46. We're alone, but we are capable of communicating to one another both our loneliness and our desire to break through it. You say, 'I'm alone.' Someone answers, 'I'm alone too.' There's a shift in the scale of power. A bridge is thrown between the two abysses.
Elie Wiesel
#47. The night is a very bad time for questions to which there are no answers." Mr Badule looked at her. "You are very right, my sister. There is
Alexander McCall Smith
#48. Does teacher spoil us??
Because I think that they spoil us, they say the answers and they want we to remember them.
Deyth Banger
#49. Humankind would be so bored if we already knew all the answers! The beauty of the Universe lies in our need to understand it, for that is what challenges us to acquire the knowledge and wisdom to reach great heights!
J.B. Richards
#50. But science is the collection of nature's answers; the humanities the collection of men's thoughts.
Gavin De Beer
#51. It's interesting because I don't ever want to ask a better question than I can answer, if that makes sense. I find that frustrating as a viewer. Compelling questions, while not easy, are easier than compelling answers.
Shane Carruth
#52. There aren't always answers for the questions you're looking for, so I have to make peace with that sometimes.
Kathleen Edwards
#53. Actually, I think I come at things a whole different way from most people, and, you know, sometimes political answers are one way to solve the problem, and sometimes there are better ways to do it.
Craig Benson
#54. Quite often you look for answers and strength in friends (supposed 2b) around you, without realizing All the true strength and honest answers come from within!!!
V Filipa Ketteridge
#55. It is not so important to have all the answers as to be hungry for them.
Carol Ann Tomlinson
#56. Many people today don't want honest answers insofar as honest means unpleasant or disturbing, They want a soft answer that turneth away anxiety.
Louis Kronenberger
#57. I don't have all answers, but as far as viewing my body ... I'm in a place where I can look at my stretch marks and say, 'Oh, hey, stretch marks!' and I'm over it.
Mary Lambert
#58. I didn't do too well until my second year, when I realized that there were no right or wrong answers and that my professors were interested only in how well I could develop an argument.
Joe Jamail
#59. Ultimately faith is the only key to the universe. The final meaning of human existence, and the answers to the questions on which all our happiness depends cannot be found in any other way.
Thomas Merton
#60. If you seek answers you won't find them, but if you seek God, the answers will find you.
Mark Batterson
#61. The answers to your problems lie all around you. The keys to your self-discovery are waiting to be found in each sunset, each pair of eyes, each breath of fresh air. Listen to the symphony of life and you will hear yourself. Find the beauty of nature and you have found your soul.
Vironika Tugaleva
#62. Questions that require answers are what keep readers going - and the place to start raising those questions is with your very first sentence.
Nancy Kress
#63. Don't try to wring out all the answers before you move forward. Faith doesn't work that way. Step into the darkness and the light will appear to guide your next step. It's that first step into the unknown that stops us from progressing.
Toni Sorenson
#64. women possessed closely guarded answers to the secrets of the universe, and men would forever be kept in the dark.
Shelly Alexander
#65. Culturally appropriate evangelism answers the actual questions being asked by a given culture rather than those questions the church believes the culture should ask.
Ed Stetzer
#66. I do not believe in God. It seems to me that theists of all kinds have very largely failed to make their concept of a deity intelligible; and to the extent that they have made it intelligible, they have given us no reason to think that anything answers to it.
A.J. Ayer
#68. A scientist does not have hope, sir. Hope is what a man has in the absence of answers, and once he does empirical experimentation, he replaces hope with knowledge and disappointment.
Michelle Franklin
#69. The only answers to the question, "why me", are more situations that raise the same question. That's because self-pity is a wall that blocks all light.
Charles F. Glassman
#70. There have been times in my life I prayed for change.
For rescue.
For strength.
For answers.
There have been times in my life I blamed others for everything that went wrong, bypassing accepting responsibility, because it was easier.
Kim Holden
#71. on page 96 of my hero Peter Medawar's book The Limits of Science: 'I regret my disbelief in God and religious answers generally, for I believe it would give satisfaction and comfort to many in need of it if it were possible to discover good scientific and philosophic reasons to believe in God.
Richard Dawkins
#72. We have millions of questions that need answers because there are so many things that the reasoning mind cannot explain. It is not important if the answer is correct; just the answer itself makes us feel safe.
Miguel Angel Ruiz
#73. I really like questions. I like people who write scripts because they're asking questions, not because they're giving answers. It's something that I look for.
Rose McIver
#74. Kind are her answers, But her performance keeps no day; Breaks time, as dancers. From their own Music when they stray.
Thomas Campion
#75. Many like to ask the questions; few like to hear the answers.
Steve Maraboli
#77. As human beings, don't we need questions without answers as well as questions with answers, questions that we might someday answer and questions that we can never answer?
Alan Lightman
#78. He went to Paris looking for answers to questions that bothered him so. He was impressive, young and aggressive, saving the world on his own.
Jimmy Buffett
#79. Down here in the pain, I don't have to know. I just note the question and move on. Answers are rare and come in their own time but hangovers are reliable and never in short supply.
Richard Kadrey
#80. There are exceptions to all rules, but it seldom answers to follow the advice of an opponent.
Benjamin Disraeli
#82. He had a suspicion of plausible answers; they were so often wrong.
Arthur C. Clarke
#83. Most problems have either many answers or no answer. Only a few problems have one answer.
Edmund Berkeley
#84. There will come a time when man is no longer concerned only with survival, when he will once more be curious as to who came before him, what life was like a thousand years ago, and he will seek out answers for a hundred years or so, but humans' curiosity has always driven them to find answers.
Julie Kagawa
#85. ON HER DEATHBED, Gertrude Stein is said to have asked, 'What is the answer?' Then, after a long silence, 'What is the question?' Don't start looking in the Bible for the answers it gives. Start by listening for the questions it asks.
Frederick Buechner
#86. The mind knows no answers. The heart knows no questions.
Bronnie Ware
#87. The dioxin story is the story of how science has failed to provide us with answers, how corporations control policymaking and decisions in our society, and how government is silenced.
Lois Gibbs
#88. [Capitalism is] that commercial system in which supply immediately answers to demand, and in which everybody seems to be thoroughly dissatisfied and unable to get anything he wants.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#89. It was best not to ask too many questions. Especially since you'd get the answers. And the answers were
usually followed by a tightening of Kate's forehead and a tick in her left eye. The tightening could cause
wrinkles, the tick a tumor, and Kate didn't need to borrow that kind of trouble
Rachel Gibson
#90. While many conclusions are drawn ... the process of asking questions is more important than the answers ... an ongoing process of discovery.
John Paul Caponigro
#91. You get old and you realize there are no answers, just stories.
Garrison Keillor
#92. Prayer is not only to receive answers but to communicate with God..
Lailah Gifty Akita
#93. I originally feared she might be dead, which felt like a sealed book that I would never be able to read. To have a birth mother die before getting any closure or answers seemed like it would be a cruel twist of fate.
Janet Louise Stephenson
#95. I don't think there are answers. I think there are thoughts.
Muriel Cooper
#96. Physics is not about having memorized all the answers, but rather about asking the right questions. For when the right question is posed of a phenomenon, either the answer becomes clear or at least a path to further and more fruitful questioning is revealed.
James Kakalios
#97. Management teams aren't good at asking questions. In business school, we train them to be good at giving answers.
Clayton Christensen
#98. 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.
Wentworth Miller
#99. Research can only present data about the past. No one seriously believes that people's answers to hypothetical questions about the future accurately represent their future behaviour; they merely represent a current attitude, which may or may not be translated into future behaviour.
Stephen King
#100. We're supposed to show people how the world is, to give them the tools they need to make good decisions as citizens or consumers. Depending on what your values are - the environment, your health, animal welfare - the answers are going to be different for every person.
Michael Pollan
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