Answers Quotes

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

On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.
Charles Babbage

Two, Confusion, Put

Why love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore; only the life I have lived. The pain now is part of the happiness then.
Anthony Hopkins

Life, Love, Happiness

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.
Laura Bush

Learning, Children, Find

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

No humorist is under any obligation to provide answers and probably if you were to delve into the literary history of humour it's probably all about not providing answers because the humorist essentially says: this is the way things are.
P. J. O'Rourke

History, Says, Obligation

In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
Christopher Morley

Beauty, Heart, Secret

Having embraced Islam, I felt as if I were born again. I found in Islam the answers to those queries which I had failed to find in Christianity.
Jermaine Jackson

Islam, Find, Again

My whole life is waiting for the questions to which I have prepared answers.
Tom Stoppard

Life, Waiting, Whole

If you are going to ask yourself life-changing questions, be sure to do something with the answers.
Bo Bennett

Yourself, Sure, Ask

Music should probably provide answers in terms of lyrical content, and giving people a sense of togetherness and oneness, as opposed to being alone in their thoughts and dilemmas or regrets or happiness or whatever.
Peabo Bryson

Music, Happiness, Alone

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

Different, Ask, Five

The New York Times editorial page is like a Ouija board that has only three answers, no matter what the question. The answers are: higher taxes, more restrictions on political speech and stricter gun control.
Ann Coulter

Political, Control, Matter

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

Hurt, Means, Question

Fiction is a kind of compassion-generating machine that saves us from sloth. Is life kind or cruel? Yes, Literature answers. Are people good or bad? You bet, says Literature. But unlike other systems of knowing, Literature declines to eradicate one truth in favor of another.
George Saunders

Life, Good, Truth

You need to make a commitment, and once you make it, then life will give you some answers.
Les Brown

Life, Give, Once

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.
Allan Bloom

Person, Others, Able

The most interesting thing in the world is another human being who wonders, suffers and raises the questions that have bothered him to the last day of his life, knowing he will never get the answers.
Will Durant

Life, Human, Him

History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology.
W. H. Auden

History, Study, Questions

Adult life is dealing with an enormous amount of questions that don't have answers. So I let the mystery settle into my music. I don't deny anything, I don't advocate anything, I just live with it.
Bruce Springsteen

Life, Music, Live

We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.
Bono

Thought, Wrong, Questions

There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined to a single part of the society. They are terrorists of the mind.
A. Bartlett Giamatti

Society, Mind, Simple

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

Question, Ask, Media

The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
Susan Sontag

Questions, Destroy

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

Feeling, Human, Confused

My mother answers all my fan mail.
Patti Smith

Mother, Fan, Mail

I try not to listen to the shoulds or coulds, and try to get beyond expectations, peer pressure, or trying to please - and just listen. I believe all the answers are ultimately within us.
Kim Cattrall

Trying, Try, Within

In the last analysis, it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts to us.
Dag Hammarskjold

Life, Death, Last

If not for music, I would probably be a very frustrated scientist. It's one way to answer the question, 'What is the meaning of life?' I feel music answers it better.
Paula Cole

Life, Music, Question

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.
James Thurber

Give, Fact, Lies

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