Quotes about Answers

It is far wiser to ask for a question than an answer. When you think you have all the answers, it simply means you have run out of questions.

Do not seek the answers. Let the answers find you.

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

Sometimes questions are more important than answers.

I can only find answers, you can only find answers, the world can only find answers, when you and I as individuals escape the pacified herd, escape the system of control around us and in our heads and recognize the two voices shouting louder even than the massed might of propaganda - the voices inside our desolated hearts and outside in the desolated environment.

The questions are diamonds you hold in the light.  Study a lifetime and you see different colors from the same jewel.  The same questions, asked again, bring you just the answers you need just the minute you need them. 

I believe everything is one thing only. That said, there are some questions in my life that I don’t know.. I’ve stopped asking. At the very beginning of my life, I wanted to have answers for everything. And now I respect the fact that I can’t have answers for everything.

So for the question I go to the mystery of it and say I don’t know. I only know that I am alive and there is something that manifests in my life, that it is God and one day I am going to understand my life, probably in the day that I die, or afterwards. But I try to find good questions and not good answers.

...all the answers are but waiting for us while we, poor fools, ask questions and wait for the secrets of God to open themselves up to us: when they, all the while, are waiting for us to open ourselves up to them...

Your job is not to find the answer but to listen to the answer.

With the passage of days in this godly isolation [desert], my heart grew calm.  It seemed to fill with answers. I did not ask questions any more; I was certain.  Everything - where we came from, where we are going, what our purpose is on earth - struck me as extremely sure and simple in this God-trodden isolation.  Little by little my blood took on the godly rhythm.  Matins, Divine Liturgy, vespers, psalmodies, the sun rising in the morning and setting in the evening, the constellations suspended like chandeliers each night over the monastery: all came and went, came and went in obedience to eternal laws, and drew the blood of man into the same placid rhythm.  I saw the world as a tree, a gigantic poplar, and myself as a green leaf clinging to a branch with my slender stalk.  When God's wind blew, I hopped and danced, together with the entire tree.

Moreover, my ancestors' souls are sustained by the atmosphere of the house, since I answer for them the questions that their lives once left behind.  I carve out rough answers as best I can.  I have even drawn them on the walls.  It is as if a silent, greater family, stretching down the centuries, were peopling the house.

If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible, who still wonders if the dream of our Founders is alive in our time, who still questions the power of our democracy, tonight is your answer.

It's the answer told by lines that stretched around schools and churches in numbers this nation has never seen; by people who waited three hours and four hours, many for the very first time in their lives, because they believed that this time must be different, that their voice could be that difference.

We're searching for the answers so we can destroy them and dream up better 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.

That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent answer.

What IS the answer? ...In that case, what is the question?

To the intelligent man or woman, life appears infinitely mysterious. But the stupid have an answer for every question.

Many of us search for the answers, but in truth they are all around us. We don't always know how to home in on them. Religion isn't a prerequisite to finding God. Religion is merely a path but there are many paths. Some may try to tell you that their way is the only way but that is more a device created by people who want to attract and keep followers to a religion than an actual fact.

There's more than one answer to these questions
Pointing me in a crooked line
The less I seek my source for some definitive
The closer I am to fine

You are so young; you stand before beginnings.  I would like to beg of you, dear friend, as well as I can, to have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart.  Try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books written in a foreign language.  Do not now look for the answers.  They cannot now be given to you because you could not live them.  It is a question of experiencing everything.  At present you need to live the question.  Perhaps you will gradually, without even noticing it, find yourself experiencing the answer, some distant day.

Why not let people differ about their answers to the great mysteries of the Universe?  Let each seek one's own way to the highest, to one's own sense of supreme loyalty in life, one's ideal of life.  Let each philosophy, each worldview bring forth its truth and beauty to a larger perspective, that people may grow in vision, stature and dedication.

I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did.  I said I didn't know.

Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions.

The problem is someone will try to convince you
That they know the answer no matter the question
Be wary of those who believe in a neat little world
'Cause it's just ..... crazy -  you know that it is

On my way came up with the answers
I scratched my head
And the answers were gone

No wavelength, no mileage
No current currency
No answers - just silence
And nothing is what it is supposed to be

Just as the warmth of a kiss brings the love alive
It's right here by the fire where the answers lie...
The trouble with you is you always want to find the fire
When you're warming your hands by the fireside
The trouble with you is you're always looking far and wide
Oh, why not enjoy yourself by the fireside?

No single answer can hold the truth of a good heart.

Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.