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The wrong answer is the right answer in search of a different question. — Bruce Mau

The answers are all out there, we just need to ask the right questions. — Oscar Wilde

In reference to right answers - Knowing is a process, not a product. — Jerome Bruner

There are no right or wrong answers, There is only intuition — Tom Ford

The correct answer can only come from creativity. — Naval Ravikant

Far better an approximate answer to the right question, which is often vague, than the exact answer to the wrong question, which can always be made precise. — John Tukey

Find the right questions. You don't invent the answers, you reveal the answers. — Jonas Salk

The right question is usually more important than the right answer. — Plato

The questions don't do the damage. Only the answers do. — Sam Donaldson

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

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

All you have to do is know where you're going. The answers will come to you of their own accord. — Earl Nightingale

When you get your,'Who am I?', question right, all of your,'What should I do?' questions tend to take care of themselves — Richard Rohr

The answers you get depend upon the questions you ask. - Thomas Kuhn

The answers you get depend upon the questions you ask. — Thomas Kuhn

The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions. - Claude Levi-Strauss

The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions. — Claude Levi-Strauss

Short Answers Quotes

  • Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers. — Voltaire
  • Prayer doesn't change things - God changes things in answer to prayer. — John Calvin
  • Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple. — Dr. Seuss
  • A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer. — Bruce Lee
  • If more government is the answer, then it was a really stupid question. — Ronald Reagan
  • All my discoveries have been made in answer to prayer. — Isaac Newton
  • Just when you think you know the answers, I change the questions. — Roddy Piper
  • We have all known the long loneliness, and we have found that the answer is community. — Dorothy Day
  • When the solution is simple, God is answering. — Albert Einstein
  • Prayer is not so much an act as it is an attitude - an attitude of dependency, dependency upon God. — Arthur W. Pink

Answers Image Quotes

If you scared to take chances, you'll never have the answers... - Nas quote

If you scared to take chances, you'll never have the answers... — Nas

Blessed are those who believe when there is no evidence of an answer to prayer. - David Wilkerson quote

Blessed are those who believe when there is no evidence of an answer to prayer. — David Wilkerson

There is a mighty lot of difference between saying prayers and praying. - John G. Lake quote

There is a mighty lot of difference between saying prayers and praying. — John G. Lake

There are years that ask questions and years that answer. - Zora Neale Hurston quote

There are years that ask questions and years that answer. — Zora Neale Hurston

The reason I talk to myself is because I’m the only one whose answers I accept. - George Carlin quote

The reason I talk to myself is because I’m the only one whose answers I accept. — George Carlin

Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions. - Edgar Cayce quote

Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions. — Edgar Cayce

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't. - Erica Jong quote

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't. — Erica Jong

Be patient. Let God answer your question on His schedule, not yours. - T. B. Joshua quote

Be patient. Let God answer your question on His schedule, not yours. — T. B. Joshua

No answer is also an answer. - American Indian Proverbs quote

No answer is also an answer. — American Indian Proverbs

The answer to injustice is not to silence the critic but to end the injustice. - Paul Robeson quote

The answer to injustice is not to silence the critic but to end the injustice. — Paul Robeson

The greatest tragedy of life is not unanswered prayer, buy unoffered prayer. - F.B. Meyer quote

The greatest tragedy of life is not unanswered prayer, buy unoffered prayer. — F.B. Meyer

Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer. - Muhammad Ali quote

Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer. — Muhammad Ali

It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers. - James Thurber quote

It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers. — James Thurber

What they call you is one thing. What you answer to is something else. - Lucille Clifton quote

What they call you is one thing. What you answer to is something else. — Lucille Clifton

He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked. - Voltaire quote

He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked. — Voltaire

War is not the answer, for only love can conquer hate - Marvin Gaye quote

War is not the answer, for only love can conquer hate — Marvin Gaye

The secret of my success is a two word answer: Know people. - Harvey S. Firestone quote

The secret of my success is a two word answer: Know people. — Harvey S. Firestone

I don't know the question, but sex is definitely the answer. - Woody Allen quote

I don't know the question, but sex is definitely the answer. — Woody Allen

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. - Pablo Picasso quote

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. — Pablo Picasso

Stay humble. Always answer your phone - no matter who else is in the car. - Jack Lemmon quote

Stay humble. Always answer your phone - no matter who else is in the car. — Jack Lemmon

Answers quote Knowledge is having the right answer. Intelligence is asking the right questions.
Knowledge is having the right answer. Intelligence is asking the right questions.

The Right Answers Quotes

Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future. — John F. Kennedy

I don't like a girl on social media, when you have an open inbox, answering questions from dudes left and right, every day. What's the point? It's like having your number all out. — Meek Mill

The answers to these questions will determine your success or failure. 1) Can people trust me to do what's right? 2) Am I committed to doing my best? 3) Do I care about other people and show it? If the answers to these questions are yes, there is no way you can fail. — Lou Holtz

Answers quote Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving for
Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward finding the answer.

The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he is one who asks the right questions. — Claude LeviStrauss

My answer to the racial problem in America is to not deal with it at all. The founding fathers dealt with it when they made the Constitution. — James Meredith

An approximate answer to the right problem is worth a good deal more than an exact answer to an approximate problem. — John Tukey

Answers quote Intelligence is knowing the right answer. Wisdom is knowing when to say it.
Intelligence is knowing the right answer. Wisdom is knowing when to say it.

The only acceptable response to the threat of lethal violence is immediate and savage counterattack. If you resist, you just may get killed. If you don't resist you almost certainly will get killed. It is a tough choice, but there is only one right answer. — Jeff Cooper

If I ran a school, I'd give the average grade to the ones who gave me all the right answers, for being good parrots. I'd give the top grades to those who made a lot of mistakes and told me about them, and then told me what they learned from them. — Richard Buckminster Fuller

An expert is not someone who gives you the answer, it is someone who asks you the right question. — Eliyahu M. Goldratt

I am sometimes asked, 'Why do you spend so much of your time and money talking about kindness to animals when there is so much cruelty to men?' I answer: 'I am working at the roots.' — George Thorndike Angell

What Is Right Quotes

Never, never be afraid to do what's right, especially if the well-being of a person or animal is at stake. Society's punishments are small compared to the wounds we inflict on our soul when we look the other way. — Martin Luther King

Right action is better than knowledge; but in order to do what is right, we must know what is right. — Charlemagne

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable. - Peter Drucker

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable. — Peter Drucker

Answers quote Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving for
Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.

Apart from values and ethics which I have tried to live by, the legacy I would like to leave behind is a very simple one - that I have always stood up for what I consider to be the right thing, and I have tried to be as fair and equitable as I could be. — Ratan Tata

you must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right. - Rosa Parks

you must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right. — Rosa Parks

The time is always right to do what is right. - Martin Luther King, Jr.

The time is always right to do what is right. — Martin Luther King, Jr.

Answers quote He who knows all the answers has not been asked all the questions.
He who knows all the answers has not been asked all the questions.

Keep true, never be ashamed of doing right; decide on what you think is right and stick to it. — George Eliot

To be kind is more important than to be right. Many times, what people need is not a brilliant mind that speaks but a special heart that listens. — F. Scott Fitzgerald

A Bill of Rights that means what the majority wants it to mean is worthless. - Antonin Scalia

A Bill of Rights that means what the majority wants it to mean is worthless. — Antonin Scalia

What is the secret of success? Right decisions. How do you make right decisions? Experience. How do you gain experience? Wrong decisions. — Abdul Kalam

Wrong Answers Quotes

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

God has not always answered my prayers. If He had, I would have married the wrong man -- several times! — Ruth Graham

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

Answers quote Judge a person by their questions, rather than their answers.
Judge a person by their questions, rather than their answers.

I think animal testing is a terrible idea; they get all nervous and give the wrong answers. — Peter Kay

The best way to escape competition—to get away from the specter of competition, which is not just stressful and nerve-wracking but also will drive you to the wrong answer—is to be authentic to yourself. — Naval Ravikant

Everyone - pantheist, atheist, skeptic, polytheist - has to answer these questions: 'Where did I come from? What is life's meaning? How do I define right from wrong and what happens to me when I die?' Those are the fulcrum points of our existence. — Ravi Zacharias

Answers quote People who complain in private want an answer. People who complain in public want an audience.
People who complain in private want an answer. People who complain in public want an audience.

It doesn’t matter if it is quick if it’s the wrong answer. — Michael Saylor

On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question. — Charles Babbage

Once again, only religion can answer the question of the purpose of life. One can hardly be wrong in concluding that the idea of life having a purpose stands and falls with the religious system. — Sigmund Freud

I think marriage is dangerous. The idea of two people trying to possess each other is wrong. I don't think the flare of love lasts. Your mind rather than your emotions must answer for the success of matrimony. It must be friendship - a calm companionship which can last through the years. — Carole Lombard

Right Questions Quotes

I became a vegetarian after realizing that animals feel afraid, cold, hungry and unhappy like we do. I feel very deeply about vegetarianism and the animal kingdom. It was my dog Boycott who led me to question the right of humans to eat other sentient beings. — Cesar Chavez

We don't have a right to ask whether we're going to succeed or not. The only question we have a right to ask is what's the right thing to do? What does this earth require of us if we want to continue to live on it? — Wendell Berry

To ask the right question is already half the solution of a problem. - Carl Jung

To ask the right question is already half the solution of a problem. — Carl Jung

Answers quote A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.
A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

To consider judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions is a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one which would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy. — Thomas Jefferson

The key question to keep asking is, Are you spending your time on the right things? Because time is all you have. — Randy Pausch

The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war. — James Madison

Answers quote Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.
Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.

The way to develop decisiveness is to start right where you are, with the very next question you face. — Napoleon Hill

Individuals have rights and there are things no person or group may do to them (without violating their rights). So strong and far-reaching are these rights that they raise the question of what, if anything, the state and its officials may do. How much room do individual rights leave for the state? — Robert Nozick

Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers. — Josef Albers

One right question asked at the right time can change the direction of our intelligence, and thus change the direction of our life. — Mahatria Ra

Easy Answers Quotes

I would rather be the child of a mother who has all the inner conflicts of the human being than be mothered by someone for whom all is easy and smooth, who knows all the answers, and is a stranger to doubt. — Donald Woods Winnicott

Good questions outrank easy answers. — Paul A. Samuelson

Good questions outrank easy answers. — Paul Samuelson

First-level thinkers, simple formulas, easy answers, success, antithesis — Howard Marks

We see that it is not the task of Christianity to provide easy answers to every question, but to make us progressively aware of a mystery. God is not so much the object of our knowledge as the cause of our wonder. — Kallistos Ware

Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think. — Martin Luther King, Jr.

First-level thinkers look for simple formulas and easy answers. Second-level thinkers know that success in investing is the antithesis of simple. — Howard S. Marks

The liberally educated person is one who is able to resist the easy and preferred answers, not because he is obstinate but because he knows others worthy of consideration. — Allan Bloom

There are no easy answers' but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right. — Ronald Reagan

A faith that moves mountains is a faith that expands horizons, it does not bring us into a smaller world full of easy answers, but into a larger one where there is room for wonder. — Rich Mullins

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Science strives for answers, but art is happy with a good question. - James Turrell quote

Science strives for answers, but art is happy with a good question. — James Turrell

Answered prayer is the interchange of love between the Father and His child. - Andrew Murray quote

Answered prayer is the interchange of love between the Father and His child. — Andrew Murray

The problem is not to find the answer, it's to face the answer - Terence McKenna quote

The problem is not to find the answer, it's to face the answer — Terence McKenna

Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers. - Janis Joplin quote

Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers. — Janis Joplin

Will you marry me? Do you have any money? Answer the second question first. - Groucho Marx quote

Will you marry me? Do you have any money? Answer the second question first. — Groucho Marx

People who live in a glass house have to answer the door. - Karl Pilkington quote

People who live in a glass house have to answer the door. — Karl Pilkington

A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer. - Karl Kraus quote

A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer. — Karl Kraus

I can no other answer make, but, thanks, and thanks. - William Shakespeare quote

I can no other answer make, but, thanks, and thanks. — William Shakespeare

The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is 'What does a woman want?' — Sigmund Freud

If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place. — Nora Roberts

Does money upset the hearts of learned men? He answered, "men whose hearts are changed by money are not learned" — Al-Ghazali

It took cancer to realize that being self-centered is not the way to live. The answer is to try and help others. — Terry Fox

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