You Already Know The Answer Quotes

#1. 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

#2. When you put a thing on paper, sometimes you discover you already know the answer. Or maybe that there is no answer, which is the same thing.

Blake Bailey

#3. Your questions are false if you already know the answer.

Jose Saramago

#4. You can answer your own question. You already know the answer, if you can just gain access to it.

Michael Crichton

#5. The idea of death robs inquiry of its passionate vitality and empties our efforts of their purpose by coming to one predestined conclusion, death. Why inquire if you already know the answer?

James Hillman

#6. And I knew in that I had my answer. I didn't know if there ever was a choice, really. I was already in too deep.

Stephenie Meyer

#7. The reflected version of myself, wet, shaking, rumpled, pinched and slightly stooped, would be alarming were it not for the self-satisfied expression pasted across my face. I would ask the obvious question, "What are you smiling about?" but I already know the answer: "It just gets better from here".

Michael J. Fox

#8. Do I know everything about him already? she thought, bewildered. And back came the answer: Everything. You are branded with this knowledge, you will have it for the rest of time.

Eva Ibbotson

#9. If you already know the
answer, Ms. Lane, don't waste my time. You just wasted a month of it.
-Barrons

Karen Marie Moning

#10. Never, never, never, on cross-examination ask a witness a question you don't already know the answer to, was a tenet I absorbed with my baby-food.

Harper Lee

#11. A seeming ignorance is very often a most necessary part of worldly knowledge. It is, for instance, commonly advisable to seem ignorant of what people offer to tell you; and, when they say, Have you not heard of such a thing? to answer, No, and to let them go on, though you know it already.

Lord Chesterfield

#12. She let herself love me for three minutes.
Can three minutes last forever? I ask myself, but already know the answer.
Probably not, I reply. But maybe they last long enough.

Markus Zusak

#13. Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.

Erica Jong

#14. The trouble was, how could you know what question to ask? It seemed to her that you were in a position to ask a really correct question only if you already knew the answer, and what was the point of that?

Julian Barnes

#15. A smile is his only answer, but it doesn't matter. I already know how, and it doesn't scare me: Damien Stark can see beneath my mask.

J. Kenner

#16. The surest way to keep a secret is to make someone think they already know the answer.

Frank Herbert

#17. Don't tempt fate.'

'My fate? I already know it and I have it in front of me.' He put an arm around me and pulled me to his lips.

'I haven't said "yes" yet.'

'No need. I know what the answer is.

Debra Strattford

#18. I could wake her up and ask have you ever been to the ocean? but I already know that answer. She has not. You can tell. It would humble you I whisper to her sleeping if you for one time stood by something stronger than yourself.

Kaye Gibbons

#19. I'm Dee Black. I'm the sister of the douchebag known as Daemon." She smiled brightly. "But you probably already know that."
"That's he's a douchebag or that he's your brother?" Archer asked innocently. "The answer is yes to both.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#20. If you want to know how fast the time is, here is the answer: Tomorrow is already a history!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#21. Do I even want to know what that was?" I only half way wanted an answer.

"It's something you should've already taken by now." I lifted my head, searching his face, but when I did his face doubled. Fact two: he'd drugged me. Great.

Angela McPherson

#22. Some of us think we already know the answer. They are the people who close a book and never think about it again. To them, the story ends at the words 'The End' and that's that.

Sarah Dalton

#23. To-morrow! the mysterious, unknown guest,
Who cries to me: "Remember Barmecide,
And tremble to be happy with the rest."
And I make answer: "I am satisfied;
I dare not ask; I know not what is best;
God hath already said what shall betide.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#24. Do not answer, be silent. After all, what could you say? I know too well what you would say. And you have no right to add anything to what you already said once.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#25. At nineteen, I certainly didn't know the answer, although I already knew more about death than most of the other pimple-ridden pudding heads in my sophomore class at the University of Miami.

Jeff Lindsay

#26. You can't search for the answer to questions that haven't been asked yet. And you can't Google a new idea. The Internet can only tell us what we already know.

Brian Grazer

#27. If you already know what recursion is, just remember the answer. Otherwise, find someone who is standing closer to Douglas Hofstadter than you are; then ask him or her what recursion is.

Andrew Plotkin

#28. Most people ask questions because they want to know the answer; lawyers are trained never to ask questions unless they already know the answer.

Lani Guinier

#29. If you have competence, you pretty much know its boundaries already. To ask the question (of whether you are past the boundary) is to answer it.

Charlie Munger

#30. I cling to our love like saran wrap on leftovers. If you want to know when dinner will be ready, the answer is last night. We could make love, or we could simply reheat what we already had.

Jarod Kintz

#31. If I were to taste your mouth now, I couldn't answer for the consequences. So I can only adore this beautiful neck. I know that in a few seconds I will have to pull away, before the temptation becomes too much. It's too much already. You have no idea how much I want you.

Sylvain Reynard

#32. You know what I regret the most? Trinity says, her voice just above a whisper.
I don't answer. All I can think about is how crappy it is that my fourteen-year-old sister already has regrets.

Paula Stokes

#33. Asked why we should strive to know God, my answer would be selfish: I want to be a creator. This is the ultimate promise of spirituality, that you can become the author of your own existence, the maker of personal destiny. Your brain is already performing this service for you unconsciously.

Deepak Chopra