Top 100 Quotes About Answers To Questions
#1. Theater isn't there to provide answers. Only possibilities. I just ask the questions. But I believe hope comes from the fact that there is a potential for redemption. At the core, that's what matters in the theater I'm attracted to. Do we dare to hope? Do we allow ourselves to hope?
Joe Mantello
#2. Laying down a challenge means more than directing people to do it. It includes asking the hard questions that no one yet has the answers to and then backing off so that the people within the organization have the space to think through the questions, take ownership, and find the answers.
Liz Wiseman
#3. 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
#4. His mind reeled. Now, empowered to ask questions of utmost rudeness-and promised answers-he could, conceivably (though it was almost unimaginable), ask someone, some adult, his father perhaps: "Do you lie?"
But he would have no way of knowing if the answer he received was true.
Lois Lowry
#5. Beware of those who try to sell you simple answers to complex questions.
Scott Adams
#6. He had a talent for asking exactly the right questions to lead me to my own answers. Just being near him made things clearer.
K.D. Sarge
#7. I made the unexpected but happy discovery that the answer to several of the questions that most occupied me was in fact one and the same: Cook.
Michael Pollan
#8. Jesus didn't come to tell us the answers to the questions of life, he came to be the answer.
Timothy Keller
#9. I want to find the answers of my questions!
Deyth Banger
#10. Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
Ralph W. Gerard
#11. I was brought up in a home environment where I was taught to think critically and was encouraged to seek answers to questions about my faith.
Ken Ham
#12. A coach is someone skilled at unlocking your ideas with the right questions. A good coach knows that the answer to everything you need is within you.
Farshad Asl
#13. Here lay the political genius of Franklin Roosevelt: that in his own time he knew what were the questions that had to be answered, even though he himself did not always find the full answer.
Walter Lippmann
#14. I still take great pleasure in playing around with philosophical questions, the ones that [Bertrand] Russell is the first to admit have no unequivocal answers. . . . I guess this quality makes me a Cerebral Hedonist, although some would say it makes me a mental masochist.
Daniel Klein
#15. If you don't ask the right questions, I can't give you the answers, and if you don't know the right question to ask, you're not ready for the answers
Ed Parker
#16. Premature as the question may be, it is hardly possible not to wonder whether we will find any answer to our deepest questions, any signs of the workings of an interested God, in a final theory. I think that we will not.
Steven Weinberg
#17. To be able to ask a question clearly is two-thirds of the way to getting it answered.
John Ruskin
#18. Our job is not to answer questions, its to ask the right questions ... that get us to the right answer.
Bill Buxton
#19. We did that often, asking each other questions whose answers we already knew. Perhaps it was so that we would not ask the other questions, the ones whose answers we did not want to know.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#20. The scientist, by the very nature of his commitment, creates more and more questions, never fewer. Indeed the measure of our intellectual maturity, one philosopher suggests, is our capacity to feel less and less satisfied with our answers to better problems.
Gordon Allport
#21. You have to learn to ask questions in a way that will elicit more nuanced answers, rather than the answers you would like to get.
Jacqueline Novogratz
#22. Goodbyes are not easy, but I'm ready to move on. I'm not reluctant, Emma, not holding back. I don't have answers to the questions, but I have some good questions. I have loved life, but I believe that life is to be loved, it is a gift.
Madeleine L'Engle
#23. I ask a million questions, and I insist on having answers. I think that is what we have to do. I have to know what the director wants. Some are very much in their head, and I need to force it out of them. I just can't play around for eight hours and see if something happens.
Mads Mikkelsen
#24. But to my questions he gave replies so vague that one could not tell whether they came from the mountains or the sea.
Soseki Natsume
#25. A straightforward answer to a straightforward question will move you that much more forward in this world, that much faster.
Loren Weisman
#26. 'Presence of God' is really that understanding that sometimes when you step out of your own shoes and just open your ears and listen to what's going on around you, you get answers to the questions you were asking.
Dave Gahan
#27. There are questions that are not meant to be answered with words. Some questions take a lifetime to answer. Take action.
J.R. Rim
#28. 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
#29. As a journalist and observer of mankind, I have more questions than answers. Sort of like an inquisitive child, still eager to learn...
BubbaHarold
#30. What is great about art and artists is that we get to ask the questions, even though we may never know the answers.
Dennis Quaid
#31. The actor must use his imagination to be able to answer all questions (when, where, why, how). Make the make-believer existence more definite.
Constantin Stanislavski
#32. Life is diverse. Living is to live with difference. Anyone telling you that difference should be stamped out is stamping out life. Those people insisting that there are black and white answers to the difficult questions are stamping out the diversity that is inherent in life.
Omar Saif Ghobash
#33. Questions are infinitely superior to answers.
Dan Sullivan
#34. We question ourselves through others by way of stories, advice, and gestures; and we receive our answers form listening to others reactions
Jeremy Aldana
#35. There must be right and wrong answers to questions of morality and values that potentially fall within the purview of science. On this view, some people and cultures will be right (to a greater or lesser degree), and some will be wrong, with respect to what they deem important in life.
Sam Harris
#36. (1) I have told you more than I know about osteoporosis. (2) What I have told you is subject to change without notice. (3) I hope I raised more questions than I have given answers. (4) In any case, as usual, a lot more work is necessary.
Fuller Albright
#37. I would like the church to be a place where the questions of people are honored rather than a place where we have all the answers. The church has to get out of propaganda. The future will involve us in more interfaith dialogue ... We cannot say we have the only truth.
John Shelby Spong
#38. When there's a dead body in the room, you never, ever answer cops' questions without your lawyer present. Which is to say, your lawyer answers the questions by saying, We have nothing to say at this time.
Paul Levine
#39. Instead of concentrating just on finding good answers to questions, it's more important to learn how to find good questions!
Donald E. Knuth
#40. You love tests?"
"Well, yeah. There are questions and answers. True or false, multiple choice, essay. What's not to love?
Nora Roberts
#41. I wanted to answer big questions about humanity, about how it is that we understand about the world, how we can know as much as we do, why human nature is the way that it is. And it always seemed to me that you find answers to those questions by looking at children.
Alison Gopnik
#42. The boldness of asking deep questions may require unforeseen flexibility if we are to accept the answers.
Brian Greene
#43. When I sit down to interview people, I don't hold questions and I don't know the answers. They're more like conversations that become lessons.
Dave Grohl
#44. With the world in a chaos of questions, family should be the answer.
Anthony Liccione
#45. There are always answers. We just have to be smart enough.
John Green
#46. Our greatest failing is that we neglect the significance of a question and obsess over the accuracy of the answer. Therefore, we end up being satisfied with remarkably accurate answers to meaningless questions and dissatisfied with imprecise answers that attempt to respond to the important issues.
D.A. Blankinship
#47. You never know the answers to the questions of life until you are asked.
Salman Rushdie
#48. We used to have lots of questions to which there were no answers. Now, with the computer, there are lots of answers to which we haven't thought up questions.
Peter Ustinov
#49. Every answer one finds leads to ten more questions. The more we learn the less we know.
Robert M. Pirsig
#50. 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
#51. If we want to live consciously, if we want to enjoy our life and not spend it simply completing the task of surviving, each of us must find answers to the questions concerning our destiny
Sunday Adelaja
#52. 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
#53. Unspoken questions shine from her eyes, but I don't have the answers she wants to hear. All I have is the truth, the why, and it's ugly. She might've thought she liked it dirty, but she doesn't know dirty. She can't know it, unless she has lived it. Unless she is it.
J.M. Darhower
#54. Of all the questions about the future of leadership that we can raise for ourselves, we can be certain in our answer to only one: 'Who will lead us?' The answer, of course, is that we will be lead by those we have taught, and they will lead us as we have shown them they should.
William C. Richardson
#55. Do you connect to your customers by asking questions and genuinely listening to the answers? And if so, do you take the extra step to connect those customers to expertly personalized solutions? Do you take time to drastically adjust your message to meet each individual customer's needs?
Darren Hardy
#56. Why does everybody thing things are always contractual? I saw a shitload of questions and thought "better keep these answers short or I'll never get to all of these".
Rob Zombie
#57. Answers to Frequently Asked Questions:
Yes.
Yes.
No.
One time in high school.
Three times in my twenties.
Rocks no salt.
Yes.
Four.
Never. And how dare you!
I will take no further questions.
Ellen DeGeneres
#58. But sometimes you have to wait for an answer to come to you. Especially when the questions are difficult ones.
Patrick Carman
#60. Stop asking yourself questions that have no meaning. Or if they have, you'll find out when you need to
find out both the questions and the answers.
Thomas Merton
#61. 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
#62. Questions are fiction, and answers are anything from more fiction to science-fiction.
Saul Steinberg
#63. I'm not Michael Moore. I think Michael Moore wants to tell you how to think. He wants to give you answers. I make movies to raise my own personal questions and not to give answers.
Jason Reitman
#64. A suicide is both a rebuke to the living and a puzzle that defies them to solve it. Like a poem, suicide is finished and refuses to answer questions as to its final cause.
Margaret Atwood
#65. One way to measure your own fears is to count the number of personal questions you've allowed others to answer for you.
Guy Finley
#66. I believe, that empirically informed approaches to the question have issued in more illuminating answers than the old armchair approaches. But I think that it would be a terrible mistake to give up on addressing normative questions in epistemology.
Hilary Kornblith
#67. We still did not answer the questions that are important to us
Paulo Coelho
#68. The most interesting thing in the world is another human being who wonders, suffers and raises the questions that have bothered him to the last day of his life, knowing he will never get the answers.
Will Durant
#69. But I did feel, and passionately, that it wasn't fair of God to give us brains enough to ask the ultimate questions if he didn't intend to teach us the answers.
Madeleine L'Engle
#70. Answers to our sincere questions come when we earnestly seek and when we live the commandments.
Rosemary M. Wixom
#71. The answers to our questions are everywhere; we just need to change the lens with which we see the world.
Janine Benyus
#72. Just as no one is morally required to answer a robber truthfully when he asks if there are any valuables in one's house, so no one can be morally required to answer truthfully similar questions asked by the State, e.g., when filling out income tax returns.
Murray Rothbard
#73. Children whose curiosity survives parental discipline and who manage to grow up before they blow up are invited to join the Yale faculty. Within the university they go on asking their questions and trying to find the answers ... it is a place where the world's hostility to curiosity can be defied.
Edmund Morgan
#74. What's nice about playing somebody real is that generally there's more information about them, so a lot of the questions that you'd otherwise have to make up the answers to are already there.
Keira Knightley
#75. You shouldn't ask questions when you know at heart you'd prefer not to hear the answers.
Julie Anne Long
#76. Librarians were somewhat on a par with God-who else could be bothered with, and better yet, know the answers to so many different types of questions? Knowledge was power, but a good librarian did not hoard the gift. She taught others how to find, where to look, how to see.
Jodi Picoult
#77. Heaven is full of answers for which nobody ever bothered to ask.
Billy Graham
#78. In my role of agent for Miss Hathaway, I would like to say that she does not answer questions relating to this subject.
Steve Carell
#79. Whenever someone asks me craft questions like that I feel like I can give one of two answers. I can give the academy answer and say that it was very deliberate and I had a plan in mind and I executed that plan exactly to the letter. But this isn't the case.
Ron Currie Jr.
#80. I have such sights to show you. Soon, you will have answers to questions you have never even dared to ask.
Clive Barker
#81. I got an e-mail from Venkat Kapoor: Mark, some answers to your earlier questions: No, we will not tell our Botany Team to "Go fuck themselves.
Andy Weir
#82. The answer to the big questions in running is the same as the answer to the big questions in life: Do the best with what you've got.
George A. Sheehan
#83. 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.
Laurel Clark
#84. It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
James Thurber
#85. Can there be enough books to answer all your questions?
Jack White
#86. Sometimes I felt like I would go insane not having the answers to such simple questions. Of course, it was always hardest during the night, then the darkness stole away any signs of hope.
Gail Tsukiyama
#87. Your destiny provides you with answers to the questions concerning you overcoming different obstacles, hassles and giving you a vision of your future
Sunday Adelaja
#88. With the discovery of the Higgs boson, one of the questions has been ticked off the list, but there are many others. We hope that we can find answers or hints for answers to at least some of them. But of course, this is in the hands of nature.
Fabiola Gianotti
#89. People, who seek God, find answers to their question
Sunday Adelaja
#90. Advocates of dumbing down should note the wonderfully perverse fact that 'University Challenge' and 'Mastermind' were watched by millions who could hardly even understand the questions, let alone ejaculate the answers. Maybe they just liked to watch smart people sweating.
Declan Lynch
#91. Something is still missing from this story: the answers need to be fitted to the original questions.
Daniel Kahneman
#92. It is often difficult to answer the same question repeatedly, but it is more difficult for them to realize they never seem to have answers to life's questions. Try to look at life from the perspective with which your loved one is living. It will help you see things differently.
Carol Howell
#93. What are all the thoughts rattling in your mind when you're not listening to the answers to questions you ask?
-Jo, Boom
Peter Sinn Nachtrieb
#94. The best journeys are the ones that answer questions that at the outset you never even thought to ask.
-Rick Ridgeway
Susan Magsamen
#95. You know, the ancient Egyptians had a beautiful belief about death. When their souls got to the entrance to heaven, the guards asked two questions. Their answers determined whether they were able to enter or not. 'Have you found joy in your life?' 'Has your life brought joy to others?'
Morgan Freeman
#96. I have a theory that the answers to all of life's major questions can found in a John Mayer song.
Susane Colasanti
#97. The beginning of questioning well is to seek to question well, which may mean laying down our questions and allowing them to be reshaped and reformed by the answers given us by God.
G.K. Chesterton
#98. If you want to find the answers to the Big Questions about your soul, you'd best begin with the Little Answers about your body.
George A. Sheehan
#99. The Wilderness holds answers to more questions than we have yet learned to ask.
Nancy Wynne Newhall
#100. 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
Famous Authors
Popular Topics
Scroll to Top