Quotes About Answers

Science can explain what exists in the world, how things work, and what might be in the future. By definition, it has no pretensions to knowing what should be in the future. Only religions and ideologies seek to answer such questions.

as we increasingly rely on Google for answers, so our ability to search for information by ourselves diminishes. Already today, 'truth' is defined by the top results of the Google search.

People afraid of losing their truth tend to be more violent than people who are used to looking at the world from several different viewpoints. Questions you cannot answer are usually far better for you than answers you cannot question.

Liberal ethics advises us that if it feels good, we should go ahead and do it. Liberal education teaches us to think for ourselves, because we will find all the answers within.

What questions we ask are crucial—for bad questions yield worse answers, ones that compound the problem.

Let the answers be wrong, let the philosophy be mistaken -- errors are more valuable than truths: truth is of the machine, error is alive; truth reassures, error disturbs.

The turmoil inherent in the shift from a rigidly traditional rural society to an urban one engenders an inclination to seek total answers to social dilemmas, thus causing ideologies to thrive in the industrializing society.

I think that the task of philosophy is not to provide answers, but to show how the way we perceive a problem can be itself part of a problem.

Oh, that's typical of you modern young men; you've nibbled at science and it's made you ill, because you've not been able to satisfy that old craving for the absolute that you absorbed in your nurseries. You'd like science to give you all the answers at one go, whereas we're only just beginning to understand it, and it'll probably never be anything but an eternal quest. And so you repudiate science, you fall back on religion, and religion won't have you any more.

My instinct is on target about Jenny, because she answers the phone with, "Is everything all right?" "I've been abducted," I say. "Aliens, I hope," she says. "We can make some money when you sell your story to the media.

Maybe life isn't about being one way or the other. Perhaps the answers we are looking for come from everywhere–our faith, our brains, and our hearts.

The universe is full of wonderful answers patiently waiting for us

The library made me feel safe, as if every question had an answer and there was nothing to be afraid of, as long as I could sort through another volume.

does a world without spiritual power force us to seek distraction because underneath, we do not know the answers at all?

How and why does love promote physical health? When infatuation turns into lasting love, what can this do for our well-being? If love becomes deep enough, does it open the door for higher consciousness? The human experience testifies that love has a unique power in all these areas, and if we investigate deeply enough, there are answers for why this is so.

He had an answer to almost everything and he retired at an early age.

Pose your questions to people and you will get countless useless answers.

You are hurrying to the sweet place, to the nonsense chasing your spirit and in the nonsense you look for answers.

Just when you seem to yourself nothing but a flimsy web of questions, you are given the questions of others to hold in the emptiness of your hands, songbird eggs that can still hatch if you keep them warm, butterflies opening and closing themselves in your cupped palms, trusting you not to injure their scintillant fur, their dust. You are given the questions of others as if they were answers to all you ask. Yes, perhaps this gift is your answer.

All knowledge, the totality of all questions and answers, is contained in the dog.

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.

It's not only for unanswered questions that we seek knowledge but also for the examination of unquestioned answers.

Questions are places in your mind where answers fit. If you haven't asked the question, the answer has nowhere to go.

You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.