Top 100 Quotes About Right Answers
#1. There is one "right answer" to any question, and it is in the book to be read.
Joseph Barrell
#2. 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
#3. 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
#4. Faith doesn't run deep because one is stuffed with right answers. It is cultivated by asking the right questions.
Josh Ross
#5. 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
#6. But in the new (math) approach, the important thing is to understand what you're doing, rather than to get the right answer.
Tom Lehrer
#7. The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he's one who asks the right questions.
Claude Levi-Strauss
#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. 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
#11. 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
#12. All the decisions you makehow many of those decisions are based on you doing simply what's right in your own eyes, and how many times specifically have you gone to Scripture looking for the answer, with regard to anything?
Paul Washer
#13. Our job is not to answer questions, its to ask the right questions ... that get us to the right answer.
Bill Buxton
#14. Ask the right questions, and the answers will always reveal themselves
Oprah Winfrey
#15. There are no wrong answers only different perspectives. With that being said, some perspectives are certainly better than others.
Amanda Mosher
#16. when the uncertainty is known, certainty is guaranteed. Until we unravel the uncertainties of our lives, we shall always be uncertain with the life we live
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#17. A feeling that He's right here with you or that you're miles apart, is the difference of a prayer with love, or with an absence of the heart.
Lisa Mischelle Wood
#18. 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
#19. The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question, it's to post the wrong answer.
Ward Cunningham
#20. I have all the answers, it's just that most of them aren't right.
Rick Cook
#21. The answer is surprisingly simple. Just do right. Live an honorable life.
Lou Holtz
#22. 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
#23. As in arithmetic-there is only one right answer to a sum, and all other answers are wrong; but some answers are much nearer being right than others.
C.S. Lewis
#24. Google can bring you back 100,000 answers. A librarian can bring you back the right one.
Neil Gaiman
#25. The American people have the right to know and understand the laws they live under. And they tend to demand answers sooner or later.
John Podesta
#26. Unfortunately, failure enjoys a natural advantage. Wrong answers to any problem outnumber right ones by a wide margin, and it seems that it will always be easier to break things than to fix them.
Sam Harris
#27. The fictionally correct have all the answers, and that's what's wrong with them. They're artistic technocrats. There's no dilemma so knotty, no question so baffling, that it can't be smoothly neutralized by dialing up the right attitude adjustment. Poor old Hemingway. If only he'd known.
Walter Kirn
#28. 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
#29. Science doesn't care, by and large, what the answers are. It's only interested in getting the right answer. And journalism should be very much that way.
Scott Pelley
#30. If you wonder what getting and keeping the right employees has to do with getting and keeping the right customers, the answer is everything.
Fred Reichheld
#31. He almosted smiled. "There you go again. Why? Why do yo keep helping me?"
There were a million answers on my lips, everything from It's the right thing to do to I don't know. Instead, I said, "Because I want to.
Richelle Mead
#32. When you inquire 'Who am I?' if you are honest, you'll notice that it takes you right back to silence instantly. The brain doesn't have an answer, so all of a sudden there is silence.
Adyashanti
#33. I engage my subjects in conversation, patterned after psychiatric questioning, with the aim of discovering something about the reasoning underlying their right but especially their wrong answers.
Jean Piaget
#34. Asking a question simply implies that you already know the answer. However, the question that you are asking may simply be an illusion. The beauty of the answer truly blooms, when you ask the right question.
Lionel Suggs
#35. To gain knowledge, we must learn to ask the right questions; and to get answers, we must act, not wait for answers to occur to us.
Anatol Rapoport
#36. To get the right answer, it helps to ask the right question.
John Capozzi
#37. He had a special feeling for what he called the "correct miscalculation," for he believed that mistakes were often as revealing as the right answers. This gave us confidence even when our best efforts came to nothing.
Yoko Ogawa
#38. Humans, I was discovering, believed they were in control of their own lives, and so they were in awe of questions and tests, as these made them feel like they had a certain mastery over other people, who had failed in their choices, and who had not worked hard enough on the right answers.
Matt Haig
#39. That's all science is. A collection of the best answers we have right now. It's always open to revision. Yesterday's fact is today's question and tomorrow has an answer we don't know yet.
Elan Mastai
#40. I began to realize that the most profound wisdom of man was rooted in the answers given by faith and that I did not have the right to deny them on the grounds of reason; above all, I realized that these answers alone can form a reply to the question of life.
Leo Tolstoy
#41. 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
#42. The answers are all out there, we just need to ask the right questions.
Oscar Wilde
#43. Religion gives you a sense of certainty. It makes you feel that you have the right answers to really big questions and that you've grasped the truth.
James Heckman
#44. What I'm trying to do right now is truly answer my most deepest most unarticulated questions for myself through my writing in some form.
Karan Bajaj
#45. 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
#46. I cannot expect even my own art to provide all of the answers, only to hope it keeps asking the right questions.
Grace Hartigan
#48. The right answer is seldom as important as the right question.
Kip Thorne
#49. Some questions are not meant to be asked as long as the answers are right.
Judith Krantz
#50. I was wondering why I wasn't getting the right answers. It was then I realized that I wasn't asking the right people.
Mansi Soni
#51. Some questions had no right answers, only shades of wrong, and people couldn't live in black-and-white. Sometimes there were pops of glorious color, and on other occasions, gray was the only visible hue.
Ann Aguirre
#52. Violence is never the right answer, unless used against heathens and monsters.
Alexander Anderson
#53. There is no right answer except to play and experiment.
Jonathan Adler
#54. The scientific mind does not so much provide the right answers as ask the right questions.
Claude Levi-Strauss
#55. You could hear, in the questions they asked and how they asked them, that there were right answers, things they wanted to hear.
John Darnielle
#56. Fuck this, Logan bit out before he shoved past the older Strattan. He started down the hallway and I went right after him. We weren't getting answers, not the ones we wanted. We'd find her ourselves.
Tijan
#57. Because prayer is the best way to set a wrong thing right again. Admitting I don't have the answers. Asking the One who does for a bit of clarity. Putting myself back in my proper place in the universe.
Rachel Heffington
#59. If you don't listen to the question entirely, then
you are going to revise your answers frequently.
Toba Beta
#60. Right after we invaded Iraq, I put a sign on my lawn that said "War is not the answer." That sign was either defaced, ripped up, or stolen every week. I had to replace that sign twelve times.
Paul Haggis
#61. We never know that one particular set of ideas contains all the right answers; even if it does today, it might not be equipped to face unexpected challenges tomorrow.
Colin Crouch
#62. We do not ask the right questions when we are young, so we miss the important answers. Now it is too late to ask, too late for the illuminating answers, and the unanswered questions haunt us for a lifetime.
Peter Abrahams
#63. You don't ask any questions. You don't get any answers. You don't stray from the path. You don't even think about what's happening to you right now. Got it?
Neil Gaiman
#64. We have no right to express an opinion until we know all of the answers.
Kurt Cobain
#65. Well, you know what procrastination and masturbation have in common, don't you?" She waits a beat, then answers her own question. "When it comes right down to it, you only end up screwing yourself.
Amy Hatvany
#66. And what I wanted to do was, I wanted to explore problems and areas where we didn't have answers. In fact, where we didn't even know the right questions to ask.
Donald Johanson
#67. I wish that we worried more about asking the right questions instead of being so hung up on finding answers.
Madeleine L'Engle
#68. The answers to all a startup's challenges are out there. By setting up the right mechanisms for gathering feedback, the road to success can be a less bumpy ride.
Jay Samit
#69. An expert knows all the answers - if you ask the right questions.
Levi-Strauss
#70. Maybe answers are found not in observing but in doing. Doing the right thing -Eva Nine
Tony DiTerlizzi
#71. 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
#72. The problem is there are no simple "right" answers for most Web design questions (at least not for the important ones). What works is good, integrated design that fills a need - carefully thought out, well executed, and tested.
Steve Krug
#73. In the new world of sales, being able to ask the right questions is more valuable than producing the right answers. Unfortunately, our schools often have the opposite emphasis. They teach us how to answer, but not how to ask.
Daniel H. Pink
#74. On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.
Charles Babbage
#75. Questions are places in your mind where answers fit. If you haven't asked the question, the answer has nowhere to go. It hits your mind and bounces right off. You have to ask the question - you have to want to know - in order to open up the space for the answer to fit.
Clayton Christensen
#76. Ones there is a demand, it is our obligation to supply the answers, give the right responses for us to fully enjoy life
Sunday Adelaja
#77. To ask the 'right' question is far more important than to receive the answer. The solution of a problem lies in the understanding of the problem; the answer is not outside the problem, it is in the problem.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#78. I like for people to figure things out for themselves. It's not like I have the right answer, but if I have a visceral reaction to something, I'm sure that other people will, too.
Charlie Kaufman
#79. I can't really tell how old I am, only that I'm too young to wonder if I asked the right questions in the past, and too old to wish the future will bring me all the answers.
Gabriel Ba
#80. I find that, usually, answers present themselves. They are not hidden under rocks or camouflaged among trees. Answers are right there, in front of our eyes. But if you haven't cause to look, then of course you will probably never find them.
Cecelia Ahern
#81. Here are the three great questions which in life we have over and over again to answer: Is it right or wrong? Is it true or false? Is it beautiful or ugly? Our education ought to help us to answer these questions.
John Lubbock
#82. Examinations are even entertaining, if you know the right answers.
Jean Webster
#83. 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
#84. It is possible to be different and still be all right. There can be two - or more - answers to the same question, and all can be right.
Anne Wilson Schaef
#85. 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
#86. Much of the world is focused on answers. This unfortunate. Situations change, the earth turns, and our needs fluctuate. Focusing on static answers puts one at a disadvantage. Empower yourself by searching for the right question as if it were a buried treasure and treasures will find you.
John Fairclough
#88. The search for the right answer is the enemy of art.
Seth
#89. A good part of the trick to being a first-rate scientist is in asking the right questions or asking them in ways that make it possible to find answers.
Anne Roe
#90. When Knowledge Went North (excerpt)
As for us,
We came nowhere near being right,
Since we have the answers.
"For he who knows does not speak
He who speaks does not know"
And "The Wise Man gives instruction
Without the use of speech.
Thomas Merton
#91. I wish there were easy answers to people's health questions. There aren't. There are answers, all right, but they are not easy.
Andrew Saul
#92. Inside any important philanthropy meeting, you witness heads of state meeting with investment managers and corporate leaders. All are searching for answers with their right hand to problems that others in the room have created with their left.
Peter Buffett
#93. 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
#94. There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined to a single part of the society. They are terrorists of the mind.
A. Bartlett Giamatti
#95. Knowing the right questions is better than knowing all the right answers Caleb from Pretty Little Liars (TV Show)
Sara Shepard
#96. Yeah. Science doesn't end. That's the one thing I learned. People think of science as spitting out right answers, and that's it. It's always under review.
Dallas Campbell
#97. Ask the right questions if you're going to find the right answers.
Vanessa Redgrave
#98. Science attempts to analyze how things and people and animals behave; it has no concern whether this behavior is good or bad, is purposeful or not. But religion is precisely the quest for such answers: whether an act is right or wrong, good or bad, and why.
Warren Weaver
#99. Asking the right questions takes as much skill as giving the right answers.
Robert Half
#100. Right answers to difficult questions are better than wrong answers to difficult questions.
N. T. Wright
