Answers Quotes

• Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.

  Dr. Seuss

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

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• The original answer defines certain conditions. Anything else is a different question.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Different, Certain, Originals

  "Ask Marilyn" column, Parade Magazine, February 17, 1991.

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

  Voltaire

  Wisdom, Clever, Men

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

  Naguib Mahfouz

  Inspirational, Leadership, Wise

  FaceBook post by Naguib Mahfouz from Jul 12, 2011

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  Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers.

  Tony Robbins

  Success, Tattoo, Business

  FaceBook post by Tony Robbins from Dec 28, 2014

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• I've learned that it's OK to be flawed, that life can be messy, that some days you glide and some days you fall, but most important, that there are no secret answers out there.

  Winona Ryder

  Fall, Secret, Important

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

  James Thurber

  Love, Life, Relationship

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• The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions.

  Claude Levi-Strauss

  Inspirational, Wise, Wisdom

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• It is wise to direct your anger towards problems - not people; to focus your energies on answers - not excuses.

  William Arthur Ward

  Inspirational, Success, Basketball

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• If I had it to do again, I'd ask more questions and interrupt fewer answers.

  Robert Breault

  Listening, Fewer, Asks

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• Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.

  William S. Burroughs

  Inspirational, Crazy, Caring

  William S. Burroughs (2007). “Naked Lunch: The Restored Text”, p.180, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Our unconscious is really good at quick decision-making - it often delivers a better answer than more deliberate and exhaustive ways of thinking.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Thinking, Decision, Way

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• A timid question will always receive a confident answer.

  Charles Darling, 1st Baron Darling

  Confidence, Political

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• The answer lies within ourselves. If we can't find peace and happiness there, it's not going to come from the outside.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Happiness, Happy, Spiritual

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• No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Creativity, Questions And Answers, Problem Solving

  "Questions That Work: How to Ask Questions That Will Help You Succeed in Any Business Situation". Book by Andrew Finlayson, p. 239, 2001.

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• The answer is blowin' in the wind.

  Bob Dylan

  Wind

  "Blowin' in the Wind" (song) (1962)

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• It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.

  Eugene Ionesco

  Funny, Education, Teaching

  "Choosing the Future: The Power of Strategic Thinking". Book by Stuart Wells, p. 15, 1997.

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• The simplest questions are the most difficult.

  William S. Burroughs

  Discovery, Finding Yourself, Know Yourself

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• Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.

  Ralph W. Gerard

  Teaching, Learning, Creativity

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• Man is a question; woman is an answer. The mistake women make today is to offer themselves as answers before being questioned.

  Jose Bergamin

  Mistake, Men, Today

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• The trouble with life isn't that there is no answer, it's that there are so many answers.

  Ruth Benedict

  Life, Educational, Aging

  Ruth Benedict (2011). “An Anthropologist at Work”, p.126, Transaction Publishers

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• Love is the answer.
  Now, what is your question?

  Kevin Williams

  Love Is

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• Sometimes questions are more important than answers.

  Nancy Willard

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions.

  Antony Jay

  Inspirational, Educational, Creativity

  Antony Jay (1994). “Management and Machiavelli: discovering a new science of management in the timeless principles of statecraft”, Jossey-Bass

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• 'How do you know so much about everything?' was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was 'By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.'

  John Abbott

  Wise, Education, Knowledge

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