Top 100 Quotes About Giving Answers
#1. I try to keep my characters raising more questions than giving answers. I don't want to leave too much on the table. I want you to have your connection and your secret understanding of the character.
Nicolas Cage
#2. I think pastors are the worst listeners. We're so used to speaking, teaching, giving answers. We must learn to be quiet, quit being so verbal, learn to pay attention to what's going on, and listen.
Eugene H. Peterson
#3. God's people need to unashamedly and uncompromisingly stand on the Bible. We need to unashamedly proclaim a Christian worldview and the gospel, all the while giving answers for the hope we have.
Ken Ham
#4. I am really more interested in questions than in giving answers.
Jostein Gaarder
#5. Management teams aren't good at asking questions. In business school, we train them to be good at giving answers.
Clayton Christensen
#6. 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
#7. In my reading of philosophy, I saw that there were innumerable problems that nobody was giving answers for. the Bible, it struck me, dealt with man's problems in a sweeping, all-encompassing thrust.
Francis Schaeffer
#8. Derek Bok asks the right question, 'What policies would produce the greatest happiness?' and he gives great and often startling answers, combining his deep knowledge of politics with the new findings of happiness research.
Richard Layard, Baron Layard
#9. Sometimes you have to learn how to give the right answer to the wrong question.
Warren Christopher
#10. 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
#11. I have a reputation for giving unpopular answers at Democratic debates. I never used marijuana. Sorry!
Joe Lieberman
#12. Care about understanding and before you know it, in just a few decades, you'll have a system of thinking that gives you answers whenever you ask.
Richard Bach
#13. The truth is, some of these comments, when you actually ask 'well, this is based on what? This notion that Obama's a socialist, for example?' Nobody can really give you a good answer.
Barack Obama
#14. People, when asked if they are Christians, give some of the strangest answers you ever heard. Some will say if you ask them: "Well - well - well, I, - I hope I am." Suppose a man should ask me if I am an American. Would I say: "Well, I - well, I - I hope I am?
Dwight L. Moody
#15. If you don't ask me questions, I can't give you an untrue answer.
Oliver Goldsmith
#16. Giving governors more leeway in administering health care could represent a small, positive development in the ongoing saga of Obamacare. Unfortunately, instead of choosing flexibility, President Obama and his left-leaning advisers always default to rigid 'Washington knows best' answers.
Fred Upton
#17. On every front there are clear answers out there that can make this country stronger, but we're going to break through the fear and the frustration people are feeling. Our job is to make sure that even as we make progress, that we are also giving people a sense of hope and vision for the future.
Barack Obama
#18. 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
#19. While Roberts wanted to give the impression he respected the right to privacy and the precedent of Roe vs. Wade, his answers look dangerously similar to the responses (Associate Justice) Clarence Thomas gave senators during his confirmation hearings 14 years ago.
Nancy Keenan
#20. 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.
#21. 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
#22. 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
#23. There are no dumb questions, but there are plenty of people who give dumb answers.
George W. Buck
#24. You know that thing where you repeat a word over and over until it just sounds like utter gibberish? That's what doing a day of press on a film is like. Ten interviews in a row, all asking pretty much the same questions until you find yourself giving pretty much the same answers.
John Niven
#25. Silence is consent. And silence where life and liberty is at stake, where by a timely protest we could stay the destoyer's hand, and do not do so, is as criminal as giving actual aid to the oppressor, for it answers his purpose ...
Ernestine Rose
#27. You lose nothing by being polite. The answer is 'No', but please say it politely and give the reasons ... Explain to me why 'No'. Don't change 'No' to 'Yes'. Don't be a fool. If there was a good reason why it is 'No', it must remain 'No', but the man must be told politely.
Mr. Lee
#29. There are things which are without answers, and there is nobody who can explain them. Either we feel them and sense them, or not. Sometimes we just give up and carry on.
Andrey Zvyagintsev
#30. I'm hesitant to ever take on the crest of the veteran. So I don't know who I am to warn the younger writer about the perils to come. I think maybe the most dangerous influence is to think you have all the answers and should be giving counsel.
Rachel Kushner
#31. I just became fascinated with how complex and unlikely the universe is and life is and Catholicism gives me an answer to that.
Dean Koontz
#32. The cosmetics industry has much to answer for. It's a multi-million- pound confidence trick based on giving women endless hope, courtesy of overpriced little pots.
Joan Collins
#33. I'm pretty much an open book. I've pretty much talked about anything I'm going through onstage. Between interviews and curious fans, I've been asked everything. And I always give answers. I don't shy away from anything.
Kevin Hart
#34. We want clarity
and God gives a call. We want a road map
and God gives a relationship. We want answers
and God gives His hand.
Ann Voskamp
#35. I'm tenacious and no is not a good answer to give me.
Jeff Tremaine
#36. I don't like films giving me answers. I like films that are provoking me, that are making me feel not only being in an easy place.
Juliette Binoche
#37. I've been saying all along that my biggest fear is that someone would program a machine to give a wrong answer. If that were to happen, the machine would still work fine - we just wouldn't know it.
Avi Rubin
#38. Every time I go to Japan and meet Capcom it is like going to see the Umbrella Corporation. You ask them things and they won't give you a straight answer about anything.
Paul W. S. Anderson
#39. You don't actually need to know anything, you can find out at the point when you need to know it. It's the teachers job to point young minds towards the right kind of question, a teacher doesn't need to give any answers because answers are everywhere.
Sugata Mitra
#40. Carli Fiorina is really annoying. Hell, they're all annoying. But Fiorina doesn't even pretend to offer up policy answers. She just gives mini stump speeches about how bad everything is.
Kevin Drum
#41. To search for unasked questions, plus questions to put to already acquired but unsought answers, it is vital to give full play to the imagination. That is the way to create truly original science.
E. O. Wilson
#42. Maybe getting more isn't the answer to life. Maybe it's giving.
Jen Lilley
#43. Literature is less involved in giving you answers and more dedicated to giving you insight.
Junot Diaz
#44. Life has a funny way of giving us answers when we haven't even asked the questions.
Jennifer Olds
#45. My problem with the Emergent Church is not the questions they are bringing up, but the answers they are giving. They are making Christianity milky. They are making it so you can no longer define anything. There is no sound judgment allowed.
Eric Ludy
#46. Give yourself the gift of time in coming to answers for your life ... It takes time, and a lot of introspection and soul-searching, to get clear about what you really want to manifest in your life.
David Emerald Womeldorff
#47. Silence gives answers.
Rumi
#48. The problem with any ideology is that it gives you the answer before you examine the evidence.
William J. Clinton
#49. Someday, as an exercise, you might ask a writer to give himself the questions he wants to answer. If you really want a writer's opinions, you have to ask for them. What you read might surprise you.
John Fante
#50. You'll never make sense of his notes. You just have to listen to his lecture," Graham whispered
confidentially. "It's a challenge, but the good news is that he's been giving the same tests for forty years. The
answers are carved right into the tops of the desks. See?
G. Norman Lippert
#51. God sometimes answers our prayers by giving us what we would have asked for had we known what He knows.
J.D. Greear
#52. Asking the right questions takes as much skill as giving the right answers.
Robert Half
#53. Stories don't give answers, but they do offer perspective.
Dan B. Allender
#54. Questing is hard. Fortunately, Thomas is here to spoon-feed them answers. We're one step away from him giving them an instruction sheet by Ikea, with cartoonish diagrams and a little goddess-slaying allen wrench.
Jim C. Hines
#55. It is not the answers you give, but the questions you ask.
Voltaire
#56. To be a deep listener, one of the first things we have to do is give up the need and the desire to give advice. Knowing answers does not require stating them; there are times when offering answers is not helpful, as when a person is in the middle of their own learning process.
John Earle
#57. Delayed answers to prayer are not only trials of faith; they also give us opportunities to honor God through our steadfast confidence in Him, even when facing the apparent denial of our request.
Charles Spurgeon
#58. Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers.
Josef Albers
#59. In my life I see no difference between making pots, cooking and growing vegetables. They are all so related. However, there is a need for me to work in clay. It is so gratifying and I get so much joy from it, and it gives me many answers in my life.
Toshiko Takaezu
#60. When other people ask me, 'What gives you the right to suggest standards for others?', my answer is, 'If I don't, someone else, perhaps less qualified, will.
Anton Szandor LaVey
#62. I see my poems as interlinked. No poem gives an answer. It may offer other questions, it may instigate other questions that then become poems.
Pattiann Rogers
#63. Those on the verge of leaving the church do not want to be told the answers. They want to be invited into the conversation of seeking what is life-giving, truthful, and consistent with the person and ministry of Jesus.
Wendy Vanderwal-Gritter
#64. The scientific method ... is nothing but the exclusion of subjective opinions as far as possible, by the devising of experiments where observation can give objective answers, yes or no, to questions whether events are causally connected.
Gavin De Beer
#65. An expert is not someone who gives you the answer, it is someone who asks you the right question.
Eliyahu M. Goldratt
#66. Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have,
Josh McDowell
#67. When Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg was before us in 1993, she said that her standard was to give no hints, no forecasts, no previews, and declined to answer dozens of questions.
Orrin Hatch
#68. Science can have a purifying effect on religion, freeing it from beliefs of a pre-scientific age and helping us to a truer conception of God. At the same time, I am far from believing that science will ever give us the answers to all our questions.
Nevill Francis Mott
#69. If a manager asks an academic consultant what to do and that consultant answers, then the consultant should be fired. No academic has the experience to know the context of a managerial problem well enough to give specific advice about a specific situation.
James G. March
#70. I have been proposed to four times. Twice at the beginning of a relationship and twice at the end of a relationship. I've never said no. I just didn't give an answer!
Juliette Binoche
#71. The best way to view a present problem is to give it all you've got, to study it and its nature, to perceive within it the intrinsic interrelationships, to discover the answer to the problem within the problem itself.
Abraham Maslow
#72. I'm kinda wishy-washy about questions. If you ask me again tomorrow, I'm likely to give you completely different answers.
Jabari Asim
#74. The question is not, how much of what is mine do I give to others. The question is, how much of what is God's do I reserve for myself. The answer we give is a faith issue, a stewardship issue.
William Avery
#75. There's nothing quite so stultifying as having someone around who has all the answers-and gives them to you.
John W. Campbell
#76. Science is meaningless because it gives no answer to our question, the only question important for us: 'what shall we do and how shall we live
Leo Tolstoy
#77. Savings give you a lot of strength, flexibility and control. They are what give you the most powerful Answer In The World.
Patrick Bet-David
#78. When I don't know the answer to something, I write a book about it because it gives me a chance to explore it and go to some people who do have the answers.
Philip Yancey
#79. What God gives in answer to our prayers will always be the thing we most urgently need, and it will always be sufficient.
Elisabeth Elliot
#80. Most men are rich in borrowed sufficiency: a man may very well say a good thing, give a good answer, cite a good sentence, without at all seeing the force of either the one or the other.
Michel De Montaigne
#81. You propound a complicated arithmetical problem: say cubing a number containing four digits. Give me a slate and half an hour's time, and I can produce a wrong answer.
George Bernard Shaw
#82. Demons were like genies or philosophy professors - if you didn't word things exactly right, they delighted in giving you absolutely accurate and completely misleading answers.
Terry Pratchett
#83. It is the function of a liberal university not to give right answers, but to ask right questions.
Cynthia Ozick
#84. The germs of all truth lie in the soul, and when the ripe moment comes, the truth within answers to the fact without as the flower responds to the sun, giving it form for heat and color for light.
Hamilton Wright Mabie
#85. Give no answer to contentious arguments or irresponsible accusations. Let such things "fly out open windows" until they spend themselves.
Stephen Covey
#86. You cannot hold God hostage (to your questions). He doesn't owe you an answer. If you want the peace that passes understanding, you're going to have to give up your right to understanding. It's called trust.
Bill Johnson
#87. The silence was pregnant with noise, with muted fury, with questions the father found too disgusting to frame and with answers to which the son was incapable of giving voice.
Johnny Rich
#88. When students of other sciences ask us what is now currently believed about the origin of species, we have no clear answer to give. Faith has given way to agnosticism. Meanwhile, though our faith in evolution stands unshaken we have no acceptable account of the origin of species.
William Bateson
#89. Love is the only way of knowledge, which in the act of union answers my quest. In the act of loving, of giving myself, in the act of penetrating the other person, I find myself, I discover myself, I discover us both, I discover man.
Erich Fromm
#90. When a young artist asks me a question, I want to do what I can to give them an answer if I have it within me. I know what I know. I won't make up stuff. But if it's something I've been through, I'll share my experiences and tell them the truth.
Michael Tait
#91. I never give answers. I lead on from one question to another. That is my leadership.
Rabindranath Tagore
#92. Remember, ask and you shall receive. If you ask a terrible question, you'll get a terrible answer. Your mental computer is ever ready to serve you, and whatever question you give it, it will surely come up with an answer.
Tony Robbins
#93. Cheryl Cole got malaria ... well I guess that answers the question what do you give someone who has everything
Sean Lock
#94. Thank you for giving me the courage to always ask the questions, even when I don't want the answers.
Colleen Hoover
#95. All joking aside, I'm a television watcher and I get frustrated with shows sometimes when they set up puzzles and then they don't give answers. It's just more questions and more questions.
Sarah Michelle Gellar
#96. I do love the prose poem because it's such a perverse and provocative little box - always asking to be questioned, never giving a straight or definitive answer.
Matthea Harvey
#97. God does not answer our desperate questionings; he simply gives us himself.
Francois Mauriac
#98. Three things give the student the possibility of surpassing his teacher: ask a lot of questions, remember the answers, teach.
John Amos Comenius
#99. We spent some time like that, me asking small questions, Toby giving me longer and longer answers, until we were simply talking, Toby asking me questions, too.
Lauren Wolk
#100. The environmental assessment should give us the answers to all the issues that have been raised: potential lead migration, endangered species, noise abatement and proper disposal of shot, shells and things.
Steven Hall
