Answers Quotes

The capacity for self-deception, rarely acknowledged or understood by those who offer us supernatural answers to our problems, is huge: as easy as it is to make a mediums cold-reading statements fit our own situation and come to believe that he must have some paranormal insight, it is hardly any more difficult for a would-be psychic with an average ego, upon hearing frequently positive feedback, to believe over time that he must be blessed with a special gift. Its harder to think youre doing it for real when youre tossing tambourines in the dark or have ready-made ectoplasm stuffed into your mouth or bottom.

Derren Victor Brown

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

Too often students are given answers to remember, rather than problems to solve

Roger Lewin

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

Helen Suzman

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

W. H. Auden

“You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.”

Naguib Mahfouz

As long as anyone believes that his ideal and purpose is outside him, that it is above the clouds, in the past or in the future, he will go outside himself and seek fulfillment where it cannot be found. He will look for solutions and answers at every point except where they can be found - in himself.

Erich Fromm

If you spend more time asking appropriate questions rather than giving answers or opinions, your listening skills will increase.

Brian Koslow

They say the world has become too complex for simple answers. They are wrong.

Ronald Reagan

On two occasions I have been asked,\\\"Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?\\\" In one case a member of the Upper, and in the other a member of the Lower, House put this question. I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.

Charles Babbage

Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.

Roger Lewin

The Wilderness holds answers to questions man has not yet learned how to ask.

Nancy Newhall

It is a sign of strength, not of weakness, to admit that you don't know all the answers.

John P. Loughrane

Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation.

Elbert Hubbard

Questions are fiction, and answers are anything from more fiction to science-fiction.

Saul Steinberg