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Answers Quotes


"Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers - six if one went to Harvard."



"The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions."


"We hear only those questions for which we are in a position to find answers."


"You never have to know all the answers because you won't be asked all the questions."


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


"We have a world that is searching for answers, that is searching for a way back to spirituality."



"I have to laugh internally when I'm asked in interviews what nightspots I like to hit. I just don't have answers... so sometimes I make them up."


"There are no explanations, there are no answers."



"The world's philosophers and theologians searched for answers to the same mysteries."


"I still don't have all the answers. I'm more interested in what I can do next than what I did last."


"All you have to do is know where you're going. The answers will come to you of their own accord."


"What's the message in Metallica? There is no message, but if there was a message, it really should be look within yourself, don't listen to me, don't listen to James, don't listen to anybody, look within yourself for the answers."


"The boldness of asking deep questions may require unforeseen flexibility if we are to accept the answers."


"It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers."


"I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally."


"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."


"It is possible to be different and still be all right. There can be two - or more - answers to the same question, and all can be right."



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


"Philosophy: Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems."


"We'd like to have immediate answers to all of our questions. I think medicine in particular. I found it frustrating as a physician sometimes to not be able to tell someone exactly why something was happening to them. There are still so many mysteries in medicine."


"I was asking Charlie the most important questions, and you heard the answers."


"Scare answers to scare, and force begets force, until at length it comes to be seen that we are racing one against another after a phantom security which continually vanishes as we approach."


"If you ask questions that interest you, you'll get answers that interest your audience."


"Libraries allow children to ask questions about the world and find the answers. And the wonderful thing is that once a child learns to use a library, the doors to learning are always open."


"It is the answers, not the questions, that are embarrassing."


"In order for answers to become clear, the questions have to be clear."


"The great thing about The Clash of course is that they keep searching for answers beyond that."
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