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Why ask a question whose answer would demand ten more questions?

If you need all the answers to trust God, you are not really trusting God.

The ocean of solutions is within, enliven that. It's a world of clues, a world of mystery but the mystery can get solved, you can find a lot of answers for these things within.

It's hard to answer a question you haven't been asked. It's hard to show you tried unless you end up succeeding.

There will always be more questions. Every answer leads to more questions. The only way to survive is to let some of them go.

I don't claim to have an answer to every question, but I promise you I have a question for every answer.

Writers always sound insufferably smug when they sit back and assert that their job is only to ask questions and not to answer them. But, in good part, it is true. And once you become committed to one particular answer, your freedom to ask new questions is seriously impaired.

The use of force is always an answer to problems. Force isn't an attractive answer, though.

Never take "NO" for an answer.

Find one correct answer and let the rest disappear.

When one forgets the distinction between method and truth, one becomes foolishly prone to respond to any question that cannot be answered from the vantage of one's particular methodological perch by dismissing it as nonsensical, or by issuing a promissory note guaranteeing a solution to the problem at some juncture in the remote future, or by simply distorting the question into one that looks like the kind one really can answer after all.

What does gene A do? What does gene B do? What does it do in different contexts? What's its importance? We know the answer to that for a very small number of genes, the ones that made themselves evident many years ago.

As I write, invariably I encounter more questions and answer those as I go.

Would the Lord send one of the Twelve Apostles halfway around the world to help just one person? The answer is YES. He does it all the time.

When I sit down to interview people, I don't hold questions and I don't know the answers. They're more like conversations that become lessons.

If I don't get to go to the gym, walking is the answer.

I used to use a lot of words in the paintings but stopped because it created a narrative - or an answer to a question.

Don't look at the superficial success, at the short-term success. Look at the deep spiritual questions that architecture has to answer. Who do you build for? Where? What should you build?

The computer can help us find what we know is there. But the book remains our symbol and our resource for the unimagined question and the unwelcome answer.

Government is violence masquerading as answers to strangers' problems using other peoples' money.

Robert wondered if any of Harvard's revered Egyptologists had ever knocked on the door of a pyramid and expected an answer.

But whenever I look at the question of how to live, the answer's always staring me in the face. I'm already doing it.

Yeah. Science doesn't end. That's the one thing I learned. People think of science as spitting out right answers, and that's it. It's always under review.

The thing I loved, particularly, was the mystery of science and the idea that science doesn't know all the answers, but it is a process of finding out. It's not like science will give you the right answer and science knows everything. I love the mysteries of it.

I'm obsessive. I want to know the answer to how good I am. Most people aren't.