Quotes About Answers

All theology is a kind of birthday Each one who is born Comes into the world as a question For which old answers Are not sufficient…

Once they have you asking the wrong questions. They don't have to worry about the answers.

Proverbs for Paranoids: 1. You may never get to touch the Master, but you can tickle his creatures. 2. The innocence of the creatures is in inverse proportion to the immorality of the Master. 3. If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers. 4. You hide, they seek. 5. Paranoids are not paranoid because they're paranoid, but because they keep putting themselves, fucking idiots, deliberately into paranoid situations.

Proverbs for Paranoids, 3: If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers.

I have to have some answers." "And what if there are no answers?" She held her ground. "Then at least I will have asked the questions.

Living is hard; Death is easy. And there are no answers on either side.

The answer is never the answer. What's really interesting is the mystery. If you seek the mystery instead of the answer, you'll always be seeking. I've never seen anybody really find the answer. They think they have, so they stop thinking. But the job is to seek mystery, evoke mystery, plant a garden in which strange plants grow and mysteries bloom. The need for mystery is greater than the need for an answer.

But sometimes the quest for the right answer keeps us from testing a variety of good ones. In search of the right answer, we assume every answer other than the one we've settled on must be wrong. Forgetting that some things have more than one good answer. I'd like to think for example, that the question, "How can I love Ken?" might have many good answers, rather than one right one.

It's easier to offer easy answers when we are not the people facing the hard questions.

The Bible has the answer to every problem and to every situation in life. No matter what happens in life, the Bible has the answer. It may not be the answer we want to hear, but it's the answer. She

The argument for intelligent design basically depends on saying, 'You haven't answered every question with evolution '... Well, guess what? Science can't answer every question.

I'll be glad to reply to or dodge your questions depending on what I think will help our election most.

Don't ask silly questions if you don't want foolish answers.

I early arrived at the insight that when no answer comes from within to the problems and complexities of life, they ultimately mean very little. Outward circumstances are no substitute for inner experience.

I have frequently seen people become neurotic when they content themselves with inadequate or wrong answers to the questions of life.

and doctrinairism are the disease of our time; they pretend to have all the answers."44 Where primitives identify themselves with the world itself, moderns identify themselves with the part of them that controls the world: the ego.

I early arrived at the insight that when no answer comes from within to the problems and complexities of life, they ultimately mean very little.

He knew he wouldn't sleep. Couldn't. The things Larry had told him swirled around the dark ceiling, darting in and out of his consciousness. He hoped strands of what he knew would somehow miraculously connect and he'd sit bolt upright with an epiphany and suddenly know the connections as well as the answers. Didn't happen.

The second type of answers are more macro in that they focus less on the individuals and more on the type of work they represent

belief that the answers one gives to life's crucial questions are never truly spontaneous; they are the embodiment of years of contextual experience, of the building of patterns in each of our lives that eventually grow to dominate our behavior.

When we see what blood we spill, we call out to the gods, but they have forsaken us. We shout to the ancestors; only the sound of the waters answers back. We are left to the mercy which we have for each other.

The world is looking for answers. If you have some of them, for goodness' sake spit 'em out. The world is looking for servants of God whose yes is yes. How elementary, how refreshing.

My problem with math was that I was never able to convince my teachers that many of my answers were meant ironically.

Like us," I repeat. "Are the answers to all life's questions in books?