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Quotes About Answers

After 2012, there's been a shift in humanity, society and economics. We're witnessing a transition: everything is changing really fast - with that comes a wanting to see and believe, and faith and spirituality come into play. I think the world is now more spiritual than it ever was because people are searching for answers.
~ Juan Pablo Di Pace
There are Christians who think there were seven actual days, or that creation was over time. They have answers for dinosaurs and things of that nature. And I don't claim to have any of those answers. And I understand people wanting to have discussions about it.
~ Shawn Michaels
Being a scientist is a special privilege: for it brings the opportunity to be creative, the passionate quest for answers to nature's most precious secrets, and the warm friendships of many valued colleagues.
~ Stanley B. Prusiner
I'm hesitant to ever take on the crest of the veteran. So I don't know who I am to warn the younger writer about the perils to come. I think maybe the most dangerous influence is to think you have all the answers and should be giving counsel.
~ Rachel Kushner
I thought life's answers were out there somewhere. Now I realize the answers are in me, in my faith in Jesus and His love for me.
~ Rachel Hauck
I don't know all the answers in life, but the beauty in math is that the answer is always there." He scoffed. "Yet I never seem to be able to find it." "Maybe you've been looking in the wrong place.
~ Rachel Hawthorne
Have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves ... Don't search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point it, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps, then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
Successful people are not afraid to ask themselves tough questions and then go deep to get the answers. Unsuccessful people avoid the tough questions, and if they come across one, either they won't answer it or they avoid it. Of course, it's not enough to pose good questions, which is why successful people are also good listeners. Most people tend to be so busy formulating their next statement that they hear very little of what is said to them.
~ Randy Carlson
Sometimes all you have to do is ask and it leads to all your dreams coming true. Ask those questions. Just ask them. More often than you'd suspect, the answer you get is, "Sure.
~ Randy Pausch
Mysteries abound where most we seek for answers.
~ Ray Bradbury
the greatest of their teachings has been the importance of looking to the forest itself for answers.
~ Ray Mears
This idea is fraught with peril, and I fear that my answers to your questions will be interpreted as approval rather than reluctant assistance.
~ Raymond Chen
Because you see darling, darling, there are no false questions. All questions in life are true questions. Answers may be false, but questions cannot be false. Sure,they can be dumb, they can be stupid, but never false.
~ Raymond Federman
Given cognitive vulnerabilities, it would be convenient to have an arrangement whereby reality could tell us off; and that is precisely what science is. Scientific methodology is the arrangement that allows reality to answer us back.
~ Rebecca Goldstein
I know every actor says this, but the people behind the camera are great. They always have answers.
~ Joel Gretsch
Genius not only diagnoses the situation but supplies the answers.
~ Robert Graves
You can have all the information you want in the world. If you don't have the people raising questions and looking beneath the surface, and people being paid to do this, you're not going to find the answers.
~ Lowell Bergman
Often I used my gut instinct to ask the questions and get the answers I thought the audience wanted to hear. Sometimes the interviewees said things that surprised even them.
~ Phyllis George
I am a micromanager, and I love being involved in every detail of my life, but in the big picture, you realize how little control you have. 'Air I Breathe' is about those moments of surrender where you get to something that is bigger than you, and you don't have answers for it.
~ Mat Kearney
I'm kind of fascinated by this idea that we can surround ourselves with information: we can just pile up data after data after data and arm ourselves with facts and yet still not be able to answer the questions that we have.
~ John D'Agata
So did he answer you? I finally had to ask her after a considerable pause, accompanied by the tapping of her fingernails. (illustration credit ill.3) Not really, she said. I'm not sure giving answers is in his bag of tricks. He seems to be more about messing with your mind so that you can't stop thinking about his questions. And if he thinks I can afford to keep stepping out of time like this, with my schedule, then, well, he's just way off. Maybe
~ Rebecca Goldstein
The old love of philosophy had returned. The process of thinking about philosophy always reminds me of fireworks. One question is shot up and bursts into a splendorous many. Answers? Forget answers. The spectacle is all in the questions.
~ Rebecca Goldstein
Science doesn't have all the answers, but it is good at spotting the important questions when they are camouflaged against a background of common sense.
~ Richard Dawkins