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Quotes About Answers

I suspect that both astronomers were, yet again, bending over backwards to be polite: theologians have nothing worthwhile to say about anything else; let's throw them a sop and let them worry away at a couple of questions that nobody can answer and maybe never will.
~ Richard Dawkins
Love, Henry remembered thinking then, was a lengthy series of insignificant questions whose answers you couldn't live without.
~ Richard Ford
The best fiction rarely provides answers; but it does formulate the questions exceptionally well.
~ Julian Barnes
A clever woman could solve puzzles. A fearless woman might ask difficult questions, seek answers in places others would shun. A woman who understood magic might see what an ordinary person was blind to.
~ Juliet Marillier
You will face many dangers on your journey, but fear not, for I have brought you this for your protection. In this box are all the words I know,' he said. 'Most of them you will never need, some you will use constantly, but with them you may ask all the questions which have never been answered and answer all the questions which have never been asked. All the great books of the past and all the ones yet to come are made with these words. With them there is no obstacle you cannot overcome.
~ Juster, Norton
I could make nothing of the terribly vague answers I got, which I could believe or doubt as I liked.
~ K?b? Abe
somewhere on earth, there was always a book with an answer in it, and the best way to find that answer was to read every book you could get your hands on.
~ Karin Slaughter
Filosofia se tr?deaz? pe sine atunci când degenereaz? în dogmatism, adic? într-o ÅŸtiin?? fixat? în formule, definitiv?, complet?. A face filozofie înseamn? a fi pe drum; în filozofie întreb?rile sunt mult mai importante decât r?spunsurile, ÅŸi fiecare r?spuns devine o nou? întrebare
~ Karl Jaspers
But science is the collection of nature's answers; the humanities the collection of men's thoughts.
~ Gavin de Beer
The man who has many answers is often found in the theaters of information where he offers, graciously, his deep findings. While the man who has only questions, to comfort himself, makes music.
~ Mary Oliver
Government is violence masquerading as answers to strangers' problems using other peoples' money.
~ Dan McCall
We always wish for money, we always wish for fame. We think we have the answers, some things ain't never gonna change.
~ John Waite
My mother answers all my fan mail.
~ Patti Smith
You need to make a commitment, and once you make it, then life will give you some answers.
~ Les Brown
As a filmmaker, I ask questions but don't have answers. Moviemaking is a philosophical exploration. I invite the audience to come on the journey and discover what they think and feel.
~ David Cronenberg
He never pays attention, he always knows the answer, and he can never tell you how he knows. We can't keep thrashing him. He is a bad example to the other pupils. There's no educating a smart boy.
~ Terry Pratchett
In the mental calmness of a spiritual life, I have found that the answers to the whys in our lives are able to come to you. In my music I find the same thing.
~ Clarence Clemons
The intellectual treatment of any datum, any experience, any subject, is determined by the nature of our questions, and only carried out in the answers.
~ Susanne Katherina Langer
. . .for in natures, as in seas, depth answers unto depth
~ Charles Dickens, Hard Times
People Ignore, People Hurt, People Confuse. But, Nature Talks, Nature Heals, Nature Answers.
~ Abdur-Rehman Qadeer
we make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers
~ Carl Sagan
We're terrified of not having the answers, and we would sometimes rather assert an incorrect answer than make our peace with the fact that we really don't know.
~ Kathryn Schulz
There are no right answers to wrong questions.
~ Ursula K. Le Guin
He went to Paris looking for answers to questions that bothered him so. He was impressive, young and aggressive, saving the world on his own.
~ Jimmy Buffett