Quotes About Not Knowing The Answers

#1. The older I get, Mr. Lapine, the more I realize it's sometimes preferable not knowing the answers to things. In fact, I often wish I'd never heard the question.

Tracy Guzeman

#2. Don't beat yourself up for not knowing the answers. You don't always have to know who you are. You don't have to have the big picture, or know where you're heading. Sometimes, it's enough just to know what you're going to do next.

Sophie Kinsella

#3. I have always been much better at asking questions than knowing what the answers were.

Bill James

#4. Release your problem to God with a prayer that the answer will come in its own good time and place. Hold the attitude of faith and expectancy, knowing that God has all the answers, that His knowledge is limitless and can never be exhausted.

Wilferd Peterson

#5. The answers aren't important really ... What's important is- knowing all the questions.

Zilpha Keatley Snyder

#6. Knowing lots of answers but being a millisecond slow on the buzzer is indeed very frustrating.

Ken Jennings

#7. It is distressing how often one can guess the answer given to an economic question merely by knowing who asks it.

George Stigler

#8. Be patient with all that is unsolved in your life. Learn to love the questions themselves, until some distant day, without your knowing, you will have lived into the answers.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#9. I have an obsession with knowing the answers to things. When I don't know what happened, it just bothers me, gets under my skin, and I need to write about it.

Taylor Swift

#10. This is the case with thousands: they appear desirous of knowing the truth, but have not patience to wait in a proper way to receive an answer to their question.

Adam Clarke

#11. You shrunk and bottled in a glass jar, you're a portable saint. Knowing you is like knowing Jesus. There are billions of us and only one of you so I don't expect much from you personally. There are no answers to my life. But I'm touched by you and fulfilled just by believing.

Chris Kraus

#12. The fundamentalists, by 'knowing' the answers before they start, and then forcing nature into the straitjacket of their discredited preconceptions, lie outside the domain of science -or any honest intellectual inquiry.

Stephen Jay Gould

#13. [I]n spite of her work as a reference librarian, she discovered that life isn't about knowing all the answers. The best we can do is make peace with our questions, learn who we are, know our strengths, and do the best we can with the gifts we've been given while we're here.

Kate Messner

#14. A is for Answering all your prayers, N is for kNowing that your loverman's going to be the answer ...

Nick Cave

#15. There are so few surprises left in life. We've gotten so addicted to knowing. It's the Google generation. We want the answer to everything right now!

Ryan Reynolds

#16. The more you believe, the more you doubt. The more you doubt, the more you ask questions. Knowing that questions left unanswered is the best proof for your belief.

Sandra Chami Kassis

#17. In reference to right answers - Knowing is a process, not a product.

Jerome Bruner

#18. Being at ease with not knowing is crucial for answers to come to you.

Eckhart Tolle

#19. Life isn't about finding the answers, life is about knowing there are always more questions.

Donald L. Hicks

#20. You ask: Why is the malady of death fatal? She answers: Because whoever has it doesn't know he's a carrier, of death. And also because he's like to die without any life to die to, and without evn knowing that's what he's doing.

Marguerite Duras

#21. Knowing what to expect from a teacher is a really good thing, of course: It lets you get the right answers more quickly than you would otherwise.

Alison Gopnik

#22. The teacher must herself be excited if she is to sell her goods. And she can do an exciting job in stirring the student without herself knowing all the answers.

Julius Sumner Miller

#23. Empathy isn't just listening, it's asking the questions whose answers need to be listened to. Empathy requires inquiry as much as imagination. Empathy requires knowing you know nothing. Empathy means acknowledging a horizon of context that extends perpetually beyond what you can see.

Leslie Jamison

#24. Human as an intellectual being needs answers about the existence for the purpose of knowing the way to live.

Zaman Ali

#25. 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

#26. 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

#27. So much of life isn't about having the right answer; it's about knowing the right question.

Duane Hewitt

#28. Knowing the 'right answers' does not mean we believe them. To believe them means to act as though they're true.

Dallas Willard

#29. The wonder of prayer is rediscovered in who we're speaking to. Prayer is a mystical event by which we get to talk to the Creator of all-the One who fashioned our world with a few words-knowing that God not only listens but answers.

Margaret Feinberg

#30. And it happens like that. Like when you first realize that there is no such thing as magic. Or that nothing actually answers your prayers, or really even listens. That cold moment of dismay where your feet are kicked from under you, where you're disarmed by a shard of knowing.

Craig Silvey

#31. People don't want to be plagued by not knowing-they want answers.

Michael Pitt

#32. 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

#33. 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

#34. Real success in the kingdom of God is not about being strong and looking good and knowing all the right answers. It's about continually yielding oneself to Jesus and determining to take purposeful little steps of obedience, and the ragged reality that it's all about God and His grace at work in us.

Mary Beth Chapman

#35. We do not grow by knowing all of the answers, but rather by living with the questions.

Max De Pree

#36. It's hard to imagine you and Daddy as ever being young and foolish. I figured you just appeared one day, fully grown and knowing all the answers, she teased.

Sharon M. Draper

#37. The history of American agriculture suggests that you can have transformation without a master plan, without knowing all the answers up front.

Atul Gawande

#38. Well you found us strength and solutions but I liked the tension
And not always knowing the answers when you're gonna lose it, you're gonna lose it.

Hayley Williams

#39. Scientology is the science of knowing how to know answers. It is a wisdom in the tradition of ten thousand years of search in Asia and Western civilization. It is the Science of Human Affairs which treats the livingness and beingness of Man and demonstrates to him a pathway to greater freedom.

L. Ron Hubbard

#40. Google is where we go for answers. People used to go elsewhere or, more likely, stagger along not knowing.

James Gleick

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

Rainer Maria Rilke

#42. To truly live by faith, one must be willing to live in the tension of not knowing. Not understanding certain things. Not having all the answers. A person must walk humbly, bearing the mystery of a God who far surpasses any human capacity to fully define Him.

Jamie George

#43. 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

#44. Knowing our personal mission further enhances the flow of mysterious coincidences as we are guided toward our destinies. First we have a question, then dreams, daydreams, and intuitions lead us toward the answers, which usually are synchronistically provided by the wisdom of another human being.

James Redfield

#45. I'm myself - knowing I'm doing a documentary and speaking with the people, telling them I have a bed, that I can eat every day, but I would like to speak to you. And they really gave me wonderful answers. We got along very well without trying to make me look like I'm what I'm not.

Agnes Varda

#46. Ask questions. Seek answers, knowing you'll never have all of them. And that's okay. Sometimes curiosity is its own reward.

Michael Holbrook

#47. I already knew to eat clean and listen to my body, to only eat when I was in a calm mental state. Everyone knew. But when you're fat in the head, it's never about knowing the answers. It's about living them.

Stephanie Klein

#48. There is nothing for you to go back and live over, or fix, or feel regret about now. every part of your life has unfolded just right. And so -now- knowing all that you know from where you now stand, now what do you want? The answers are now coming forth to you. Go forth in joy, and get on with it.

Abraham Hicks

#49. A lot of parts written for people of my size, dwarfs, are either foolish idiots or, like, these sages that are all-knowing, and they're very, sort of, come-to-them-for-answers.

Peter Dinklage

#50. Knowing the right questions is better than knowing all the right answers Caleb from Pretty Little Liars (TV Show)

Sara Shepard

#51. 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

#52. Scientists have power by virtue of the respect commanded by the discipline ... We live with poets and politicians, preachers and philosophers. All have their ways of knowing, and all are valid in their proper domain. The world is too complex and interesting for one way to hold all the answers.

Stephen Jay Gould

#53. Knowing the precies answers is not as crucial as the certainty that the answers do, in fact, exist.

Chris Heimerdinger

#54. Enthusiasm for the universe, in knowing as well as in creating, also answers the question of doubt and meaninglessness. Doubt is the necessary tool of knowledge. And meaninglessness is no threat so long as enthusiasm for the universe and for man as its center is alive.

Paul Tillich

#55. True love is not a question. It is an answer that you never have to spend a lifetime figuring out.

Shannon L. Alder

#56. Because some information is better than no information. Life does not give you big, simple answers, Caitlyn. It demands patience, focus, and an open, intelligent mind to gather the pieces of a puzzle and fit them together into a coherent whole. Nothing worth knowing is ever easily learned.

Lisa Cach

#57. If knowing answers to life's questions is absolutely necessary to you, then forget the journey. You will never make it. For this is a journey of unknowables
of unanswered questions, enigmas, incomprehensibles, and most of all, things unfair.

Jeanne Marie Bouvier De La Motte Guyon

#58. A hero is someone who, in spite of weakness, doubt or not always knowing the answers, goes ahead and overcomes anyway.

Christopher Reeve