Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brian Greene

When you know the answer you want, it is often all too easy to figure out a way of getting it.

Brian Greene

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

Archibald MacLeish

We have learned the answers, all the answers: it is the question that we do not know.

Barbara Johnson

Winners see an answer for every problem; losers see a problem in every answer!

Barbara Mertz

I knew the answer, and--of course--so did Ramses. He has superb breath control and always gets in ahead of me.

Many of those questions are being discussed at ministerial level. You don't get answers to sensitive political questions during an exercise.

Barry Long

Self-knowledge is the discovery of the new, it looks beyond the world that has all the answers and no solutions.

She's the one A-list celebrity without a publicist. That means she never answers anything.

She was shocked . . . by the loss and is wanting to get answers to the questions as to why this could happen and how this could happen. No parent should ever have to get that phone call that they lost their child someplace they're supposed to be safe.

Diane Sawyer

Wake up curious, and determined to find an answer

Dean Ornish

I am as non-accepting of medical quackery and unscientific approaches as anybody else. I've grown up as a card-carrying scientist, and I know the power of science to answer questions, and for many questions I don't know of anything better than scientific approaches to answer them.

Edward Abbey

It is not the writer's task to answer questions but to question answers. To be impertinent, insolent, and, if necessary, subversive.

Edward Abbey

We know so very little about this strange planet we live on, this haunted world where all answers lead only to more mystery.

Ben Horowitz

The right answer on raises is you have to be formal. You have to be formal to save your own culture.

Yolanda Adams

I truly believe that my songs bring the answers and the solutions, as opposed to just talking about the problems. My music at its core is joyful.

Bel Powley

Movies make teenagers have quippy answers for every question. Nothing seems to faze them, and they're like, 'Oh, whatever.' You're not like that when you're a teenager. You're really earnest. Things really feel like life or death. And you kind of oscillate between emotions at one time. It's very emotionally draining being a teenager.

Vera Farmiga

We are all seekers in some way. There are those of us who think they have all the answers and there are those of us who may never get an answer.

Justin Trudeau

I am a teacher. It's how I define myself. A good teacher isn't someone who gives the answers out to their kids but is understanding of needs and challenges and gives tools to help other people succeed. That's the way I see myself, so whatever it is that I will do eventually after politics, it'll have to do a lot with teaching.

In 1990, Howard Friedman and Leslie Martin, two psychologists at the University of California, Riverside, embarked on a research project within a research project, seeking answers to the question, 'What makes for a long life?'

Kathleen Edwards

There aren't always answers for the questions you're looking for, so I have to make peace with that sometimes.

Alejandro Amenabar

My movies are not movies of answers but of questions.

Albert Einstein

I asked myself childish questions and proceeded to answer them.

Albert Einstein

Cherish the questions, for the answers keep changing.

Albert Einstein

Don't listen to the person who has the answers; listen to the person who has the questions.

Alexander Graham Bell

There cannot be mental atrophy in any person who continues to observe, to remember what he observes, and to seek answers for his unceasing hows and whys about things.

You don't need to be a fan of the show to understand what's going on in the game, ... but if you've watched the other seasons, you'll recognize the characters and the back story. And we even fill in a lot of the gaps that people have questioned. For instance, hardcore viewers have wondered how the president recovered, and why Jack's daughter Kim was suddenly working at the Counter Terrorist Unit. All the answers are covered in the game.

Tom Wolfe

'Why' is a question no animal can ask, because both the question and answers require speech. Have you ever seen an animal shrug?

Atul Gawande

The history of American agriculture suggests that you can have transformation without a master plan, without knowing all the answers up front.

Alison Gopnik

Knowing what to expect from a teacher is a really good thing, of course: It lets you get the right answers more quickly than you would otherwise.

We don't know the answers for sure. There's still some uncertainty because we don't have perfect data.

Aaron Allston

The principle of Sturgeon's Razor states that the simplest answer to any problem is 90% crap

A. R. Ammons

If we ask a vague question, such as, 'What is poetry?' we expect a vague answer, such as, 'Poetry is the music of words,' or 'Poetry is the linguistic correction of disorder.'

Agatha Christie

There are questions that you don't ask because you're afraid of the answers to them.