Quotes About Answers

Since 1970, I've been using text and ephemera as well as photographs in order to tell stories of one kind or another. There's a thread that runs through all the work that is to do with bearing witness. The photographs are about asking questions, though, not answering them.

You can make a film in a way that, when the audience leaves the theater, they leave with certain answers in their head. But when you leave them with answers, you interrupt the process of thinking. If, instead, you raise questions about the themes and the story, this means that the audience is on its way to start thinking.

The world's philosophers and theologians searched for answers to the same mysteries.

Mystery is a birthright of theology and faith, but you often do find religious people grasping for answers that shut things down and narrow what is possible.

Gerald Jonas's book about stuttering is called 'The Disorder of Many Theories.' Back theory seems to suffer from the same 'Rashomon' effect: as with almost every human problem, there is no dearth of answers and no answer.

Theory not only formulates what we know but also tells us what we want to know, that is, the questions to which an answer is needed.

Answers are not obtained by putting the wrong question and thereby begging the real one.

Education is far less about a set of facts than a way of thinking, than learning how to critically think. And therefore, what I always think should be the basis of education is not answers but questions.

We hear only those questions for which we are in a position to find answers.

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.

The answers to my questions lie within. There is nothing I can ask that I do not, somewhere within the deep recesses of my soul, know the answer to.

The biggest scientific delusion of all is that science already knows the answers. The details still need working out but, in principle, the fundamental questions are settled.

We grow in time to trust the future for our answers.

What matters isn't how experienced you are—it's how willing you are to ponder questions with no easy answers.

When is a crisis reached? When questions arise that can't be answered.

The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose.

A child's questions ought always to be answered honestly and sincerely or else it gets a compress.' 'Complex. I am answering you honestly.' 'Am I a bastard?' Sir Henry was startled, but after a moment's thought said, 'Yes. But that's not a word you should use. Where did you learn it?' 'Shakespeare.

Clear content, simple navigation and answers to customer questions have the biggest impact on business value. Advanced technology matters much less.

Information can tell us everything. It has all the answers. But they are answers to questions we have not asked, and which doubtless don't even arise.

There is more than a mere suspicion that the scientist who comes to ask metaphysical questions and turns away from metaphysical answers may be afraid of those answers.

There was a time when I had all the answers. My real growth began when I discovered that the questions to which I had the answers were not the important questions.

Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Do not despair if the answers don't come immediately. Some answers are only revealed with the passage of time.

If I were God, I'd have the answers at the end of the workbook, so you could check to see if you're on the right track as you go along.

You deliberately don't ask the questions to which you would rather not know the answers. You call it trust. You know too late that it is cowardice.