"Being religious means asking passionately the question of the meaning of our existence and being willing to receive answers, even if the answers hurt."

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"There are no pat answers - we're pushing through some new frontiers, and lessons of the past don't always apply."

Jim Barksdale, American Businessman

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"When the media ask George W. Bush a question, he answers, 'Can I use a lifeline?'"

Robin Williams, American Comedian

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"There are no right answers to wrong questions."

Ursula K. Le Guin, American Writer

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"I want to 'think' that I have all the answers. But if I 'think', I soon realize that what I thought to be answers were guesses. And if I 'think' yet again, I begin to realize that since God has all the answers He never hands me a guess."

Craig D. Lounsbrough, American Author

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"Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

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

Felix Frankfurter, American Judge

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"A major difficulty is that the answer to the Riddle of the Sphinx is partly a product of the answers that we already have given to the riddle in its various forms."

Gregory Bateson, British Scientist

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"Asking the right questions takes as much skill as giving the right answers."

Robert Half, American Businessman

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"We have no right to express an opinion until we know all of the answers."

Kurt Cobain, American Musician

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"In the past, I always used to be looking for answers. Today, I know there are only questions. So I just live."

Sarah Brightman, English Musician

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"There are no pat answers - we're pushing through some new frontiers, and lessons of the past don't always apply."

"When the media ask George W. Bush a question, he answers, 'Can I use a lifeline?'"

"There are no right answers to wrong questions."

"I want to 'think' that I have all the answers. But if I 'think', I soon realize that what I thought to be answers were guesses. And if I 'think' yet again, I begin to realize that since God has all the answers He never hands me a guess."

"Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are."

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

"A major difficulty is that the answer to the Riddle of the Sphinx is partly a product of the answers that we already have given to the riddle in its various forms."

"Asking the right questions takes as much skill as giving the right answers."

"We have no right to express an opinion until we know all of the answers."

"In the past, I always used to be looking for answers. Today, I know there are only questions. So I just live."

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"Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone and solitude expresses the glory of being alone."

"Faith consists in being vitally concerned with that ultimate reality to which I give the symbolical name of God. Whoever reflects earnestly on the meaning of life is on the verge of an act of faith."

"I hope for the day when everyone can speak again of God without embarrassment."

"The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable."

"Doubt is not the opposite of faith; it is one element of faith."

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"The first duty of love is to listen."

"Boredom is rage spread thin."

"He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being."

"Language... has created the word "loneliness" to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word "solitude" to express the glory of being alone."