The Answers Quotes

If you don't like the question that's asked, answer some other question.

You do not need to justify asking questions. But if you think you have found answers, you do not have the right to remain silent.

An old Zen rule of thumb is not to answer until one has been asked three times.

God's silences are His answers. If we only take as answers those that are visible to our senses, we are in a very elementary condition of grace.

I will not take "but" for an answer.

If Google doesn't know the answer, then it's not a question

The questions are always more important than the answers.

Success is a process of continually seeking answers to new questions.

When it comes to going after what you love in life, don't take no for an answer.

Knowing the 'right answers' does not mean we believe them. To believe them means to act as though they're true.

There is no promise too hard for God to fulfill. No prayer is too big for Him to answer!

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

If one really knew what one was doing, why do it? It seems to me if you had the answer why ask the question? The thing is there are so many questions.

The only answer in this life, to the loneliness we are all bound to feel, is community.

Probably the most important skill that children learn is how to learn. ... Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve. This is a mistake.

Teachers who offer you the ultimate answers do not possess the ultimate answers, for if they did, they would know that the ultimate answers cannot be given, they can only be received.

People often ask me how I developed my vocal sound, and the answer usually disappoints them: Its just the way I sound when I sing.

Adoption is an answer to a tragedy that has already happened, but may it never be the impetus for one that hasn’t.

That question is too good to spoil with an answer.

One of the great flaws that we all share is that we think everyone else is cooler, everyone else is sexier; everyone else has all the answers. That was me too.

At the desk where I sit, I have learned one great truth. The answer for all our national problems - the answer for all the problems of the world - come to a single word. That word is "education."

I learned that I could not do enough work; it's always incomplete. When you ask a question, the answer will raise four more questions, and those four will become eight.

I think I unknowingly seek people who are better than me in the sense of strength and wisdom. It's like I've got to know and trust that you have the answers and that you can carry me if needed.

Self-reliance is the key to a vigorous life. A man must look inward to find his own answers.

But I have to add - and this answers your other question - this catholicity in time and in space is only meaningful for me if there is, at the same time, a concentration on the Gospel.

I am just a child who has never grown up. I still keep asking these 'how' and 'why' questions. Occasionally, I find an answer.

Never answer an anonymous letter.

Certainly no valid answer is ever gained by excluding any factors of the problem; that was the Puritans' error.

The right answer is seldom as important as the right question.

The answer is never the answer. What's really interesting is the mystery.

I wish everyone could experience being rich and famous, so they'd see it wasn't the answer to anything.

Just when I nearly had the answer, I forgot the question.

"Who am I?" is not really a question because it has no answer to it; it is unanswerable. It is a device, not a question.

People are looking for an answer, and I know that Answer is Jesus Christ.

As long as we keep searching, the answers come.

Fundamentalism fills you with answers before you even think to ask the questions.

To get out of a hard situation, try a soft answer.

I've never understood the female capacity to avoid a direct answer to any question.

The human mind has to ask "Who, what, whence, whither, why am I?" And it is very doubtful if the human mind can answer any of these questions.

Only the most naive of questions are truly serious.

Comparing to another activity is useful if it helps you formulate questions, it's dangerous when you use it to justify answers.

Sometimes, the best answer is a more interesting question.

We do things much the same way as we did 50, 60 or even 70 years ago. The answers may not be wrong, but we haven't experimented to see whether they are or not.

We owe it to the flood victims of New Orleans to give them truthful answers as to why this event took place and to assure our citizens that tragedies like this will never happen again.

You ask me about my ex-wife? That is not polite. But I will answer. I got another wife now. Much younger, much nicer, much prettier. And so much more intelligent than Benetton.'

There were mysterious questions, but a mysterious answer was a contradiction in terms.

Guess now who holds thee?'--'Death,' I said. But, there, The silver answer rang, . . . 'Not Death, but Love.

When we pray "in the Name of Jesus" the answers are in accordance with His nature, and if we think our prayers are unanswered it is because we are not interpreting the answer along this line.

Did you ever think, Clarice, why the Philistines don't understand you? It's because you are the answer to Samson's riddle. You are the honey in the lion.

No one has the answer; only you know the way home.