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Answers Quotes


"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."


"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 structure and, so, to some extent predetermine answers."


"Philosophy: Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems."


"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 characteristic of the epistemological tradition to present us with partial scenarios and then to demand whole or categorical answers as it were."


"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."


"A diploma only proves that you know how to look up answers."


"Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are."


"My opposition to Interviews lies in the fact that offhand answers have little value or grace of expression, and that such oral give and take helps to perpetuate the decline of the English language."


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


"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."


"The liberally educated person is one who is able to resist the easy and preferred answers, not because he is obstinate but because he knows others worthy of consideration."


"The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose."
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