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Answers Quotes


"An expert knows all the answers - if you ask the right questions."


"Conversely, beware the man who does nothing but ask you questions about yourself and offers no information about himself. Not only is he keeping you at bay, he is probably not listening to your 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."


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


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


"I am very excited to be supporting one of the world's most visionary efforts to seek basic answers to some of the fundamental question about our universe and what other civilisations may exist elsewhere."


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


"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."


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


"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."


"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."


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


"The questions don't do the damage. Only the answers do."


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


"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."


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


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


"Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are."
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