The Answers Quotes

If you get people asking the wrong questions, you don't have to worry about the answers.

The first koan do not have rational answers. They are techniques devised over the millennia for triggering an actual experience.

If we want to see an end to personal and global conflict, then love is the only real answer.

Answer not a fool according to his folly,lest thou also be like unto him.

The proverbist knows nothing of the two sides of a question. He knows only the roundness of answers.

People ask what are my intentions with my films - my aims. It is a difficult and dangerous question, and I usually give an evasive answer.

God answers first the prayers we should have prayed.

I have my prized possession in my wallet. That's a photograph of the first words I ever uttered to my wife, and her answer to my question when I asked her, "Will you go out with me?"

Better that I find you, God, and leave the questions unanswered, than to find the answers without finding you.

"What would you call the highest happiness, Lewie?" he asked. "The sense of competence," was the answer, given without hesitation.

Never allow others to think you always have the best answers. This will only make them dependent on you.

A correct answer is like an affectionate kiss.

So long as money can answer, it were wrong in any business to put the life in danger.

The law is not a series of calculating machines where answers come tumbling out when the right levers are pushed.

I used to be sure of things. Me, once i had all the answers. I wish i was a kid again, when i had all the answers

It's obvious what's timeless and what is not timeless, but you need time to find that answer.

A response is not just a re-action, a protest, as it were, against being disturbed; it is, as the word indicates, an answer. It meets the stimulus, and corresponds with it.

I know every actor says this, but the people behind the camera are great. They always have answers.

Questions are a burden to others; answers are a prison for oneself.

My faith grew strong, and I sent a letter (as I was ordered) to the Rev. Dignitary of the Cathedral of Exeter. I was assured, before I sent it, he would not answer it.

Remember, the answers are in the questions.

I cannot stop asking. If I could taste one sip of an answer, I could break out of this prison for drunks.

if you think you know, you don't ask questions, or if you ask, you don't listen to the answers. Everyone, everything, each thing, is different, so that it isn't safe to know. You - you have to grope.

Atheistic morality is not impossible, but it will never answer our purpose.

I think the question that nobody wanted to deal with is the question they're posing: did my kid die in vain? Because the answer is too awful.

So when I cover the president, I try to remember two things: First, if you don't ask, you don't find out; and second, the questions don't do the damage. Only the answers do.

I was a narrative historian, believing more and more as I matured that the first function of the historian was to answer the child's question, "What happened next?

They read all the books, but they can't find the answers.

Learn to say, “I don’t know the answer.” It could be the beginning of a very good day’s rehearsal.

The principle of Sturgeon's Razor states that the simplest answer to any problem is 90% crap

The most important discoveries will provide answers to questions that we do not yet know how to ask and will concern objects we have not yet imagined.

I have a reputation for speaking my mind. I like to think my candor and bluntness will give you the answers.

It is easy to answer the ultimate questions - it saves you bothering with the immediate ones.

They say the world has become too complex for simple answers. They are wrong.

My mother answers all my fan mail.

I mean you really can target your answers to get the instant response and I think that is a very manipulative type of polling. I really have no time for that worm at all.

The . . . inescapable truth is: government does not have all the answers. In too many instances, government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.

It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?

Most problems have either many answers or no answer. Only a few problems have one answer.

There are no explanations, there are no answers.

You’ll know her more by your questions than by her answers. Keep looking at her long enough. One day you might see someone you know.

We now have many of the answers that once eluded Darwin, thanks to two developments that he could not have imagined: continental drift and molecular taxonomy.

Some problems are just too complicated for rational, logical solutions. They admit of insights, not answers.

The Rule of Accuracy: When working toward the solution of a problem, it always helps if you know the answer.

When you inquire 'Who am I?' if you are honest, you'll notice that it takes you right back to silence instantly. The brain doesn't have an answer, so all of a sudden there is silence.

The best answer to bad speech is good speech

I like to write about things about which I have no answers, questions that trouble me. These things trouble me.

America is looking for answers. She's looking for a new direction; the world is looking for a light. That light can come from America's great North Star; it can come from Alaska.

I've got an answer to where Osama bin Laden is and I know, he's dead and living in my suitcase with my dummies.'

The only answer to the question of the meaning of life has to begin from the fact of our human finitude, of our vulnerability and our fallibility.