Answers Quotes - Page 54

Always have an answer - even if you change your mind five minutes later.

I find many of answers in the spiritual realm. That in no way compromises my ability to think rigorously as a scientist.

I mean it as a compliment when I say that you could almost define a philosopher as someone who won't take common sense for an answer.

That's why history is not an answer to our problem, because history complicates, enlarges every problem of human existence. Now, the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries didn't believe this.

I would really hate it if I could call up Kafka or Hemingway or Salinger and any question I could throw at them they would have an answer. That's the magic when you read or hear something wonderful - there's no one that has all the answers.

I'm fascinated by what makes up a self, how one becomes a self, how much is it an answer to others and how much is it an essence of self.

If I leave my computer, I'm probably not going to get back for hours. If I take a few minutes to answer questions and go web surfing, then guilt kicks in and I get back to work.

I would answer with the words of the Stasi alumnus Wolfgang Schmidt, who was asked that question: "What about these Americans who say, I have nothing to hide?" And he said, and I quote: "This is very naïve. This is the reason that the government collects the information in the first place to use against you. The only way to prevent that is to prevent the information from being collected in the first place." End quote.

Science and religion have to go hand in hand with the mystery, because there's a certain point beyond which you say, "There are no answers."

If we destroy their environments and communities, we will lose the answers they have to solving our problems, and to the protection of our common futures.

If you have a question, then find the answer.

The mind is like dishwater, my friend. When it is agitated, it becomes difficult to see. But if you allow it to settle, the answer becomes clear.

Moller, in his Essay on Architecture, taught that the building which was fitted accurately to answer its end would turn out to be beautiful, though beauty had not been intended. I find the like unity in human structures rather virulent and pervasive.

The mosh pit will reveal all the answers. The mosh pit never lies. -Norah, Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist

The answer is the Savior who is the source and author of peace.

It is frequently more rewarding merely to ask pertinent questions. It may get someone to go and look for an answer.

I know the usual answer of Christ using violence to get the sellers out of the temple, but to me this was impatience rather than violence.

Whatever you think of de Sade, he was a complex figure and we should not look for easy answers with him. He was, strangely perhaps, against the death penalty, and he was never put in prison for murders or anything like that.

I am what I am. I would tell you what you want to know if I could, for you have been kind to me. But I am a cat, and no cat anywhere ever gave anyone a straight answer.

The best answer to the problem of evil is not one so much found on paper but on wood.

Computation involves going from a question to an answer. Mathematics involves going from an answer to a question.

A definition is death. A definition is the answer to which you must look up the question in the back of your book.

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

Everything will happen as was written by the Lord," replied the prophet. "There are moments when tribulations occur in our lives, and we cannot avoid them. But they are there for some reason." "What reason?" "That is a question we cannot answer before, or even during the trials. Only when we have overcome them do we understand why they were there.

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