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"The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions."
Susan Sontag
"The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions."
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"Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers - six if one went to Harvard."
Edgar R. Fiedler
"Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers - six if one went to Harvard."
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"Good questions outrank easy answers."
Paul Samuelson
"Good questions outrank easy answers."
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"I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally."
Calvin Trillin
"I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally."
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"The scientific mind does not so much provide the right answers as ask the right questions."
Claude Levi-Strauss
"The scientific mind does not so much provide the right answers as ask the right questions."
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"Everyone has the answers."
Robin Wright Penn
"Everyone has the answers."
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"If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers."
Thomas Pynchon
"If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers."
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"Being religious means asking passionately the question of the meaning of our existence and being willing to receive answers, even if the answers hurt."
Paul Tillich
"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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"The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions."
Claude Levi-Strauss
"The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions."
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"I don't pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about."
Arthur C. Clarke
"I don't pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about."
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"Asking the right questions takes as much skill as giving the right answers."
Robert Half
"Asking the right questions takes as much skill as giving the right answers."
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"All you have to do is know where you're going. The answers will come to you of their own accord."
Earl Nightingale
"All you have to do is know where you're going. The answers will come to you of their own accord."
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"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."
Lars Ulrich
"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."
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"You never have to know all the answers because you won't be asked all the questions."
Herbert Prochnow
"You never have to know all the answers because you won't be asked all the questions."
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"We have a world that is searching for answers, that is searching for a way back to spirituality."
Moira Kelly
"We have a world that is searching for answers, that is searching for a way back to spirituality."
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"Questions are a burden to others; answers are a prison for oneself."
Patrick McGoohan
"Questions are a burden to others; answers are a prison for oneself."
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"We hear only those questions for which we are in a position to find answers."
Friedrich Nietzsche
"We hear only those questions for which we are in a position to find answers."
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"Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers."
Rainer Maria Rilke
"Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers."
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"You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions."
Naguib Mahfouz
"You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions."
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"It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers."
James Thurber
"It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers."
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"The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions."
Antony Jay
"The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions."
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"Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers."
Janis Joplin
"Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers."
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"I still don't have all the answers. I'm more interested in what I can do next than what I did last."
Charlie Sheen
"I still don't have all the answers. I'm more interested in what I can do next than what I did last."
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"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."
Laurel Clark
"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."
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"I don't think it's the job of filmmakers to give anybody answers. I do think, though, that a good film makes you ask questions of yourself as you leave the theatre."
Paul Haggis
"I don't think it's the job of filmmakers to give anybody answers. I do think, though, that a good film makes you ask questions of yourself as you leave the theatre."
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"The great thing about The Clash of course is that they keep searching for answers beyond that."
Lester Bangs
"The great thing about The Clash of course is that they keep searching for answers beyond that."
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"Hypothetical questions get hypothetical answers."
Joan Baez
"Hypothetical questions get hypothetical answers."
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"The boldness of asking deep questions may require unforeseen flexibility if we are to accept the answers."
Brian Greene
"The boldness of asking deep questions may require unforeseen flexibility if we are to accept the answers."
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"When you finally accept that it's OK not to have answers and it's OK not to be perfect, you realize that feeling confused is a normal part of what it is to be a human being."
Winona Ryder
"When you finally accept that it's OK not to have answers and it's OK not to be perfect, you realize that feeling confused is a normal part of what it is to be a human being."
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"Philosophy: Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems."
Henry B. Adams
"Philosophy: Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems."
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"I tried to use the questions and answers as an armature on which to build a sculpture of genuine conversation."
Clifton Fadiman
"I tried to use the questions and answers as an armature on which to build a sculpture of genuine conversation."
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"If you ask questions that interest you, you'll get answers that interest your audience."
Kurt Loder
"If you ask questions that interest you, you'll get answers that interest your audience."
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"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."
Anne Wilson Schaef
"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."
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"I like to write about things about which I have no answers, questions that trouble me. These things trouble me."
Paul Haggis
"I like to write about things about which I have no answers, questions that trouble me. These things trouble me."
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"I was asking Charlie the most important questions, and you heard the answers."
Edgar Bergen
"I was asking Charlie the most important questions, and you heard the answers."
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"Answers are not obtained by putting the wrong question and thereby begging the real one."
Felix Frankfurter
"Answers are not obtained by putting the wrong question and thereby begging the real one."
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"To play a good guy is nice because in a way, he is so open for answers."
Joel Gretsch
"To play a good guy is nice because in a way, he is so open for answers."
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"You don't want a million answers as much as you want a few forever questions. The questions are diamonds you hold in the light. Study a lifetime and you see different colors from the same jewel."
Richard Bach
"You don't want a million answers as much as you want a few forever questions. The questions are diamonds you hold in the light. Study a lifetime and you see different colors from the same jewel."
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"The reason I talk to myself is that I'm the only one whose answers I accept."
George Carlin
"The reason I talk to myself is that I'm the only one whose answers I accept."
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"In order for answers to become clear, the questions have to be clear."
Abdolkarim Soroush
"In order for answers to become clear, the questions have to be clear."
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"An expert knows all the answers - if you ask the right questions."
Levi Strauss
"An expert knows all the answers - if you ask the right questions."
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"The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he is one who asks the right questions."
Claude Levi-Strauss
"The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he is one who asks the right questions."
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"The weeping voices rise straight up and strike the clouds. A passer-by at the roadside asks a conscript why, The conscript answers only that drafting happens often."
Du Fu
"The weeping voices rise straight up and strike the clouds. A passer-by at the roadside asks a conscript why, The conscript answers only that drafting happens often."
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"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."
Wentworth Miller
"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."
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"And what I wanted to do was, I wanted to explore problems and areas where we didn't have answers. In fact, where we didn't even know the right questions to ask."
Donald Johanson
"And what I wanted to do was, I wanted to explore problems and areas where we didn't have answers. In fact, where we didn't even know the right questions to ask."
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"There are no explanations, there are no answers."
Jessica Lange
"There are no explanations, there are no answers."
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"The world's philosophers and theologians searched for answers to the same mysteries."
Robert Vaughn
"The world's philosophers and theologians searched for answers to the same mysteries."
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"If I wasn't Bob Dylan, I'd probably think that Bob Dylan has a lot of answers myself."
Bob Dylan
"If I wasn't Bob Dylan, I'd probably think that Bob Dylan has a lot of answers myself."
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"I question myself every day. That's what I still find motivating about this. I don't have the answers, I don't pretend that I do just because I won the match. Just keep fighting and maybe something good happens."
Andre Agassi
"I question myself every day. That's what I still find motivating about this. I don't have the answers, I don't pretend that I do just because I won the match. Just keep fighting and maybe something good happens."
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"It is the answers, not the questions, that are embarrassing."
Helen Suzman
"It is the answers, not the questions, that are embarrassing."
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