Top 100 The Answers Quotes
#1. It's hard to imagine him angry without them. It must be like watching a game show by yourself, how calling out the answers feels silly and pointless. What is fury without witnesses? Where's the tension minus an audience to wonder what you'll do next?
Curtis Sittenfeld
#2. The moment we find the reason behind an emotion ... the wall is breached, and the positive memories it has kept from us return too. That's why it pays to ask those painful questions. The answers can set you free.
Gloria Steinem
#3. The answers lie in not just hard science or philosophical rhetoric but in experiments of the imagination as well. Human perspective must be re-examined through an almost whimsical fount of imagination of species, magic, and clear creative thinking.
Leviak B. Kelly
#4. Enjoy the questions and forget the answers.
Paulo Coelho
#5. Question everything. Then pay close attention to the answers, no matter how small the voice.
K.S. Thompson
#7. Find the right questions. You don't invent the answers, you reveal the answers.
Jonas Salk
#8. All you have to do is know where you're going. The answers will come to you of their own accord.
Earl Nightingale
#9. We may not find the answers. We may not find Bigfoot. We may not find a chupacabra. We may not find out who was responsible for killing JFK, but we're going to keep looking, asking, probing. And one day - you know what? - we may get some of those answers.
George Noory
#10. We shouldn't get hung up on the questions we can't answer because life, by definition, is confusing. We're never going to have all the answers. Never. We should focus on the questions we can answer and make peace with the ones we can't.
Nicole Williams
#11. It's just like nurses in a hospital tend to know more than the doctors most of the time; if you really want to get the answers to a question about court, you should spend more time buttering up the clerks than the judges.
Jodi Picoult
#12. When looking for answers or solving something, usually people tend to look in the hard places or the corners. But sometimes, the answers are just right in plain view
Janice Liang
#13. If I could start over today, I would choose literature again. If the answers exist in the world or in the universe, I still think that's where we're going to find them.
Elif Batuman
#14. Let's stop pretending that we have all the answers, because when it comes to gender, none of us is fucking omniscient.
Kate Bornstein
#15. All history is an attempt to find pattern and meaning in a section of human experience, and every historian worthy of the name raises questions about man's ultimate destiny and the meaning of all history to which, as history, he can provide no answers. The answers belong to the realm of theology.
G. B. Caird
#16. I don't write books because I have answers. I write books because I have questions. What we are is the questions that we ask, not the answers that we provide. It's all about the process of self-examination. I think that's what the best writing always contains.
John Edgar Wideman
#17. What does she see in him?"
"Power. Money." I might have imagined the pause. "Sex."
"That's disgusting."
"You asked. Don't ask things you don't want to know the answers to. I don't have time to argue. Can you walk?
Nenia Campbell
#18. All the answers are but waiting for us while we, poor fools, ask questions and wait for the secrets of God to open themselves up to us: when they, all the while, are waiting for us to open ourselves up to them ...
Muhammad Asad
#19. Just as someone who's been interested in radio and programming for so long, I can usually tell when an interviewer is doing a segment just to fill a programming slot. They ask questions, but they don't care about the answers.
Chris Hardwick
#20. I do not know the answers to life's hard questions, but I do know the One who knows them and that's sufficient ... for now.
Toni Sorenson
#21. I do not have the answers and as a woman I do not intend to play my own thoughts over the truth. I can clearly state the problems and tell you that I suffer from them.
Lynette Fromme
#22. In my opinion, one of the answers to the question of underdevelopment of nations, is in the CULTURE of DIGNITY OF LABOR.
Sunday Adelaja
#23. I think grief and fear are going to come to him suddenly. They'll be undiluted and words won't work. We're all going to get hit and won't know how to hit back. I wish I knew the answers, how to help myself and the people who will hurt all around me.
Kaui Hart Hemmings
#24. To know the answers of one game is useless, to name somebody or something is pointless when they don't reflect when you call him or her.
Deyth Banger
#25. Only the church of Jesus have the answers to dispel fear
Sunday Adelaja
#26. We don't have to have all the answers and know everything. Life is about acknowledging the unknown and just living.
Raneem Kayyali
#27. Data is the new science. Big Data holds the answers. Are you asking the right questions?
Patrick P. Gelsinger
#28. Don't settle. Know what you want and reach for it. And if you don't know what you want, be patient.
The answers will
come to you in time, and you may find that your heart s desire has been right under your nose all the
while.
Julia Quinn
#29. I used to think I knew all the answers. Then I thought I knew maybe a few of the answers. Now I'm not even sure I understand the questions. Nobody knows anything.
Pete Nelson
#30. The walls he's built around himself will crumble, and some really diabolical developments will push him toward the answers he fears.
Scott Allie
#31. We're all polyester poets and pickers of a kind, with far too many questions for the answers in our minds.
John Anderson
#32. People try to make sense of things, and if they don't know the answers, they make them up,because for some, a wrong answer is better than none.
Ann Aguirre
#33. I ask a lot because I'm very curious - especially about ex-girlfriends. I'm pretty good at getting the answers, too.
Brittany Murphy
#34. The mind can ask all the questions on the meaning of life. But it cannot answer one of them, for the answers are beyond the mind.
Marianne Fredriksson
#35. 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
#36. We can never know for certain where our prayers are likely to go, nor from whom the answers will come. Just when we think we are at our nearest to God, we could be assisting the Devil.
Norman Mailer
#37. At age fourteen I was asking questions. When the answers failed to satisfy me, I searched elsewhere for different answers and found wisdom in atheism. And I am far from alone in that experience.
Hemant Mehta
#38. What I've come to know is that in life, it's not always the questions we ask, but rather our ability to hear the answers that truly enriches our understanding. Never, never stop learning.
Lester Holt
#39. You will never have all the answers, Millie. You will always have to seek the Lord and trust Him with things you don't understand. But trusting Him comes easier the longer you walk with Him, the more you understand how good and faithful He is.
Martha Finley
#40. He never lied to me. I just didn't ask the questions I didn't want to know the answers to.
Josh Lanyon
#41. The knowledge or information from different source can be misunderstood, unless you experience life, within. All the wisdom and bliss comes from within, and you can have, all the answers of life, when you look inside.
Roshan Sharma
#42. We don't have all the answers ... as we get older, our bodies need repair.
Benny Hinn
#43. As long as one keeps searching, the answers will come.
Joan Baez
#44. As far as innovation goes, I can tell you that Korean students are reluctant to step out of line. If I ask questions, nobody raises their hands - not because they don't know the answers, but because they don't want to step out of line.
Dan Shechtman
#45. If you're bourgeois, money is it. It's all the questions and all the answers. Ain't no E-flat or color blue, only $12.98 or $1,000. If it isn't money, it isn't nothing.
John Coltrane
#46. Children can ask what adults don't dare to because we don't want to admit we're scared and we don't really want to hear the answers.
Martha Grimes
#47. Whenever your foundational beliefs about the goodness and justice of God are examined, and the answers produced are not what you yourself have believed about God, there will be an emotional reaction.
Thomas F. Booher
#48. I live in the spirit of prayer. I pray as I walk about, when I lie down and when I rise up. And the answers are always coming.
George Muller
#49. It would take a year before the answers to those questions became clear, but much longer to realize that it was too easy to pick up a man's dream, his measure of the world, rather than fashion one of my own.
Miranda Weiss
#50. I don't know how to save the world. I don't have the answers or The Answer. I hold no secret knowledge as to how to fix the mistakes of generations past and present. I only know that without compassion and respect for all of Earth's inhabitants, none of us will survive - nor will we deserve to.
Leonard Peltier
#51. Having gone through so many of the personal things I've gone through, its about creating an (online) space for girls to be heard. I don't profess to have all the answers. But Ask Elizabeth is a space where girls are not alone.
Elizabeth Berkley
#52. You need to trust
To surrender
To ask for guidance
Go within for the answers
They're within you
You have the answers
All you need do is ask
Karen Hackel
#53. When you genuinely lose your illusions, you begin to marvel at things, because you don't have the answers any more.
Sam Keen
#54. The journey is the destination. Finding the answers for yourself, achieving understanding, is part of your journey.
A.G. Riddle
#55. It's frustrating when you know all the answers, but nobody bothers to ask you the questions.
Jill Shalvis
#57. Waiting for the answers to questions that we cannot answer, is probably one of the hardest things to do...
Phani Kondeti
#58. I was convinced that all the answers to the dilemmas of human existence could be found through the intellect, that is to say, by thinking. I didn't realize yet that thinking without awareness is the main dilemma of human existence.
Eckhart Tolle
#59. Some questions remain long after their owners have died. Lingering like ghosts. Looking for the answers they never found in life.
Michael Frayn
#60. Just when you think you know the answers, I change the questions.
Roddy Piper
#61. Believe that you can do it, under any circumstances. Because if you believe you can, then you really will. That belief just keeps you searching for the answers, then pretty soon you get it.
Wally Amos
#62. I don't know what to say. I hate that. I wish I had all the answers for you. I wish I could explain why this happened.
Katie Kacvinsky
#63. In our quest for the answers of life we tend to make order out of chaos, and chaos out of order.
Jeffrey Fry
#64. I think about the poet Rainer Maria Rilke who said that it's the questions that move us, not the answers. As a writer, I believe that it's our task, our responsibility, to hold the mirror up to social injustices that we see and to create a prayer of beauty. The questions serve us in that capacity.
Terry Tempest Williams
#65. An economist is someone who knows all the answers to last years' questions.
Robert Orben
#66. Thank God for my computer. Sometimes when there is no one to talk to, I talk aloud so that I can get all my thoughts out and try to figure out the issues that I'm having and try, I'm trying to find the answers.
Beyonce Knowles
#67. [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
#68. The answers to our prayers may not come dramatically, but we must find quiet moments to seek greater light and truth. And when we receive it, it is our responsibility to live it, to share it, and to defend it.
Cheryl A. Esplin
#69. I wanted to watch a movie or listen to some music, so I did both. I put on a DVD of The Wizard of Oz and a CD of Metallica's Ride the Lightning. IT TURNS OUT THAT WHEN YOU PLAY THEM BOTH TOGETHER, YOU GET ALL THE ANSWERS.
John Moe
#70. To be studious was to be the opposite of boring, she had believed; it was to be so interested, so madly curious, that one simply could not wait for the answers to arrive on their own: one had to go chase them in the only manner available.
Meredith Duran
#71. I mean, it's never too late to decide to do something else. Becoming an adult doesn't mean that you suddenly have all the answers.
Emma Straub
#72. Write about the world where that name was first spoken. Write about the questions it throws up. And the answers you don't always have.
Bridget Whelan
#73. Within ourselves, there are voices that provide us with all the answers that we need to heal our deepest wounds, to transcend our limitations, to overcome our obstacles or challenges, and to see where our soul is longing to go.
Debbie Ford
#74. Adolescence begins when children stop asking questions-because they know all the answers.
Evan Esar
#76. To assume that I and I alone have all the answers is to eventually find myself entirely alone without any answers.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#77. Don't concern yourself too much with how you are going to achieve your goal - leave that completely to a power greater than yourself. All you have to do is know where you're going. The answers will come to you of their own accord, and at the right time.
Earl Nightingale
#78. Sometimes in the shadows of one's self lie the problems, and in the shadows of one's shaping lie the answers.
Ravi Zacharias
#79. Being an actor sometimes requires that you ask yourself questions you'd rather not know the answers to.
Kevin Spacey
#80. Why should I hasten to solve every riddle which life offers me? I am well assured that the Questioner, who brings me so many problems, will bring me the answers also, in due time.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#81. My friend, there are some things that I cannot tell you. Some I will tell you in time; some, others will tell you; some you may never know, or you may be the first to find the answers.
Robin McKinley
#82. 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
#83. A great teacher is one who realizes that he himself is also a student and whose goal is not dictate the answers, but to stimulate his students' creativity enough so that they go out and find the answers themselves.
Herbie Hancock
#84. The answers will always be no," he says.
I smile sadly over my shoulder. "Always is a very long time.
Kelly St. Clare
#85. Your preparation for the real world is not in the answers you've learned, but in the questions you've learned how to ask yourself.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#86. I'm just the librarian. I can only give you the books. I can't give you the answers.
Kami Garcia
#87. When you learn to listen to your gutt, your find all the answers.
Keshia Chante
#88. How ridiculous it is to waste our lives experimenting with those things for which we already have the answers!
Sterling W. Sill
#89. Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face.
Ronald Reagan
#90. 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
#91. When people feel a certain religion claims to have all the answers, that's what turns them off.
Matisyahu
#92. My child, it will be better for you if you accept my decisions without complaint. Do not ask me to defend my actions or to explain why one person is favored and another seems slighted. The answers to these questions go far beyond your comprehension.
Thomas A Kempis
#93. It's okay to not know who you are and what you want. Those with the answers are usually very happy in their own stuck-ness
Darnell Lamont Walker
#94. We are all seekers in some way. There are those of us who think they have all the answers and there are those of us who may never get an answer.
Vera Farmiga
#95. You are the one who called me, Conor O'Malley, it said, looking at him seriously. You are the one with the answers to these questions.
Patrick Ness
#96. I never had faith that the answers to human problems lay in anything that could be called political. I thought the answers, if there were answers, lay someplace in man's soul.
Joan Didion
#97. My fellow believers, it is time to return to the Book. It is time to look to the one source that holds the answers for how our country should operate, the Bible.
Tony Evans
#98. Confidence is being sure even when you don't have all the answers. It's a gut feeling. A sensibility that doesn't always have proof going into the situation but most nearly always has evidence on the way out.
Wheston Chancellor Grove
#99. The days that stick in my mind are not the ones when I had the answers, but the ones when I didn't.
Susan Lute
#100. All that I have said and done,
Now that I am old and ill,
Turns into a question till
I lie awake night after night
And never get the answers right.
William Butler Yeats
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