Answers Quotes - Page 38

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.

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.

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.

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

We do not pray for the sake of praying, but for the sake of being heard. We do not pray in order to listen to ourselves praying but in order that God may hear us and answer us. Also, we do not pray in order to receive just any answer: it must be God's answer.

Ultimately faith is the only key to the universe. The final meaning of human existence, and the answers to the questions on which all our happiness depends cannot be found in any other way.

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.

Pat answers to complex problems are the hallmark of intellectual mediocrity

I would argue that religion comes from a desire to get to the questions of, 'Where do we come from?' and 'How shall we live?' And I would say I don't need religion to answer those questions.

It's great to be in the position of asking questions and not having to answer questions.

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

The question of whether there exists a supernatural creator, a God, is one of the most important that we have to answer. I think that it is a scientific question. My answer is no.

Believe you know all the answers, and you know all the answers. Believe you're a master, and you are.

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

Why live? Life was its own answer. Life was the propagation of more life and the living of as good a life as possible.

I can only answer that I tried to tell the truth and, if not be objective, at least be fair; history is not served when reporters prize trepidation and propriety over the robust journalistic duty to tell the whole story.

When we have arrived at the question, the answer is already near.

Questioners sooner or later end up in a library... And answers are dangerous; they kill your wonder.

Be patient with all that is unsolved in your life. Learn to love the questions themselves, until some distant day, without your knowing, you will have lived into the answers.

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.

When another is asked a question, take special care not to interrupt to answer it yourself.

The most serious mistakes are not being made as a result of wrong answers. The true dangerous thing is asking the wrong question.

If you're a writer, the answer to everything is yes.

Why do you want to become an author? I will accept only one answer. If it is because you feel you can write better than you can do anything else then go ahead and do it without frills and flourishes. Stick to your present job and write in your spare time: but do it as if it is a whole time job.

Only the most naive of questions are truly serious.