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So many questions. Could she not think about what the answers might be before asking?

Faith minus vulnerability and mystery equals extremism. If you've got all the answers, then don't ca...

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When I lay these questions before God I get no answer. But a rather special sort of 'No answer.' It ...

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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 an...

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The scientific mind does not so much provide the right answers as ask the right questions.

The answer can't be found in books - or be solved by bringing it to other people. Not unless you wan...

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Daniel KeyesFlowers for Algernon

I pray God it is the answer I want, but if not I will accept any answer at all and try to be gratefu...

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So many things in my continuing education are learned by going where I have to go and doing what I h...

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Dean KoontzOdd Interlude: A Special Odd Thomas Adventure

Answers I kept my answers small and kept them near;Big questions bruised my mind but still I letSmal...

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Not all questions can be answered.

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Edward AbbeyPostcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast

Are you asking because you really want an answer?

again I am torn between the necessity and the impossibility of answering.

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Italo CalvinoIf on a Winter's Night a Traveler

I didn’t answer her. All I could have said was I don’t know, a sentence that was becoming a kind of ...

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I am just the biologist; I don’t require any of this to have a deeper meaning. I am aware that all o...

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To ask the 'right' question is far more important than to receive the answer. The solution of a prob...

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Carter and Helene still ask questions. I used to ask questions, and I got the answer: nothing. The a...

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An answer is always a form of death.

We go into parenting, and we discover that we don't have the answers. We are at a loss.

We have no right to express an opinion until we know all of the answers.

The mind when it has an old experience will add that data into its current experience, and it keeps ...

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Questions are great, but only if you know the answers. If you ask questions and the answers surprise...

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--So we reached our decisions simultaneously, and apart, and if I knew that Court was fighting a bat...

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We live by revelation, as Christians, as artists, which means that we must be careful never to get s...

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Madeleine L'EngleWalking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art

With my sort of book there's no resolution, because there's no solution. The problems aren't answere...

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All children are curious and I wonder by what process this trait becomes developed in some and suppr...

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Marston BatesThe Nature Of Natural History

The man who has many answersis often foundin the theaters of informationwhere he offers, graciously,...

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When I first started, my songs were the politics of anger. As I got older and hopefully wiser, I wan...

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The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes fr...

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Indeed, the only truly serious questions are ones that even a child can formulate. Only the most nai...

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Milan KunderaThe Unbearable Lightness of Being

Google can bring you back 100,000 answers. A librarian can bring you back the right one.

It's okay not to know all the answers. It's better to admit our ignorance than to believe answers th...

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With the passage of days in this godly isolation [desert], my heart grew calm. It seemed to fill wit...

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There are works which wait, and which one does not understand for a long time; the reason is that th...

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Many years afterwards, we attempt to solve puzzles that were not mysteries at the time and we try to...

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Patrick ModianoSo You Don't Get Lost in the Neighborhood

Answers were always important, but they were seldom easy.

[Religious belief is] outmoded and ridiculous. [Belief in gods was a] worn out but once useful crutc...

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Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even no...

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You are so young, so much before all beginning, and I would like to beg you, dear Sir, as well as I ...

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Why aren't you in school? I see you every day wandering around.""Oh, they don't miss me," she said. ...

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Ideally, the pursuit of truth is said to be at the heart of the intellectual's business, but this cr...

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In the past, I always used to be looking for answers. Today, I know there are only questions. So I j...

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I don't get it,' Caroline said, bemused. 'She's the only one with wings. Why is that?'There were so ...

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Save your explanations, I got some questions for you first and you'd better answer them!' [slurred H...

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Moral issues rarely have yes or no answers.-Myles to Alanna when she asks about the Gift

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Tamora PierceAlanna: The First Adventure

Albert grunted. "Do you know what happens to lads who ask too many questions?"Mort thought for a mom...

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Questions don't have to make sense, Vincent," said Miss Susan. "But answers do.

If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers.

Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.

The mind does most of its best thinking when we aren't there. The answers are there in the morning.

She had argued for a broad interpretation, which imposed a duty to answer questions truthfully, and ...

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I don't pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about.

A scientist may not be sure of the answer, but he's often sure he can find one. And that's a conditi...

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There are always more questions. Science as a process is never complete. It is not a foot race, with...

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He had always thought there was an answer to all life's mysteries in the stars, yet whenever he star...

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Religion is dangerous because it allows human beings who don't have all the answers to think that th...

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Unlike science, creationism cannot predict anything, and it cannot provide satisfactory answers abou...

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Every question leads to new answers, new discoveries, and new smarter questions.