The most important questions in life can never be answered by anyone except oneself. — John Fowles
There are questions I'm still not wise enough to answer, just wise enough to no longer ask. — George Jones
Of all questions, why? is the least pertinent. It begs the question; it assumes the larger part of its own response; to wit, that a sensible response exists. — Jack Vance
We can ignore or forget an answer or information we are given, but we'll never ignore a powerful question even if we don't answer it you'll never forget the question. — Dan Sullivan
In examinations the foolish ask questions that the wise cannot answer. — Oscar Wilde
He who knows all the answers has not been asked all the questions. — Confucius
He who knows all the answers has not yet been asked all the questions. — Unknown
It is not every question that deserves an answer. — Publilius Syrus
Never before has the world been so desperately asking for answers to crucial questions, and never before has the world been so frantically committed to the idea that no answers are possible. — Edmund Clowney
To ask the right question is harder than to answer it. — Georg Cantor
An answer to a question no one asked is a wasted answer. — Esther Hicks
Short Unanswerable Quotes
Arguments out of a pretty mouth are unanswerable. — Joseph Addison
Of all eloquence a nickname is the most concise; of all arguments the most unanswerable. — William Hazlitt
Silence is a figure of speech, unanswerable, short, cold, but terribly severe. — Theodore Parker
Oh! too convincing -- dangerously dear -- In woman's eye the unanswerable tear! — Lord Byron
The most terrible of motives and the most unanswerable of responses: Because. — Victor Hugo
How womanly it is to ask the unanswerable at the moment impossible. — Christopher Morley
Jokes are unanswerable objections. — Mason Cooley
[Flürscheim] was good at unanswerable arguments. — Christopher Kelk Ingold
Logic might be unanswerable because it was so absolutely wrong. — D. H. Lawrence
Jesus’ coming is the final and unanswerable proof that God cares. — William Barclay
Unanswerable Questions Quotes
The secret of living well is not in having all the answers but in pursuing unanswerable questions in good company. — Rachel Naomi Remen
An agnostic position is one that leaves open the question whether there exists a god or gods, professing to find such a question unanswered or unanswerable. For the atheist, the question has been answered, and in the negative. — Jaroslav Pelikan
Part of teaching is helping students learn how to tolerate ambiguity, consider possibilities, and ask questions that are unanswerable. — Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot
Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable. How many hours are in a mile? Is yellow square or round? Probably half the questions we ask - half our great theological and metaphysical problems - are like that. — C. S. Lewis
Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable. — C. S. Lewis
If you do not believe in a personal God, the question: 'What is the purpose of life?' is unaskable and unanswerable. — J. R. R. Tolkien
I've always been a deep thinker. Since I was a kid I was delving into the very depths of why we existed, often driving my parents crazy with unanswerable questions. — Missy Higgins
But your questions, which are unanswerable without exception, all spring from the same erroneous thinking. — Herman Hesse
Will the things that are being lost - the wilderness, the plants and animals, the skills, and all the others - leave too vast a gap in the human spirit? This is the unanswerable question. In the meantime, we must live in our century and wait, enduring somehow the unavoidable sadness. — David Ehrenfeld
I don't spend much time thinking about whether God exists. I don't consider that a relevant question. It's unanswerable and irrelevant to my life, so I put it in the category of things I can't worry about. — Wendy Kaminer
Unsolvable Quotes
The person across the table is never the problem. The unsolved issue is. So focus on the issue. — Chris Voss
Nausea is an unsolved problem of medicine and marijuana is the finest anti-nausea medication known to science. — Peter McWilliams
Pure mathematicians just love to try unsolved problems - they love a challenge. — Andrew Wiles
Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart. — Rainer Maria Rilke
Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Do not despair if the answers don't come immediately. Some answers are only revealed with the passage of time. — Rainer Maria Rilke
If the lesser mind could measure the greater as a foot-rule can measure a pyramid, there would be finality in universal suffrage. As it is, the political problem remains unsolved. — George Bernard Shaw
The greatest unsolved mysteries are the mysteries of our existence as conscious beings in a small corner of a vast universe. — Freeman Dyson
This whole universe, with all its vastness, grandeur and beauty, is nothing but sheer imagination. In spite of so many discoveries, researches and scientific knowledge, the creation remains a great unsolved riddle. — Meher Baba
Play permits the child to resolve in symbolic form unsolved problems of the past and to cope directly or symbolically with present concerns. It is also his most significant tool for preparing himself for the future and its tasks. — Bruno Bettelheim
Better the devil you know than the angel you don't. — Hama Tuma
My painting is visible images which conceal nothing... they evoke mystery and indeed when one sees one of my pictures, one asks oneself this simple question 'What does that mean'? It does not mean anything, because mystery means nothing either, it is unknowable. — Rene Magritte
The desert wears... a veil of mystery. Motionless and silent it evokes in us an elusive hint of something unknown, unknowable, about to be revealed. Since the desert does not act it seems to be waiting -- but waiting for what? — Edward Abbey
If atheism is to be used to express the state of mind in which God is identified with the unknowable, and theology is pronounced to be a collection of meaningless words about unintelligible chimeras, then I have no doubt, and I think few people doubt. — Leslie Stephen
We the willing, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much, with so little, for so long, we are now qualified to do anything, with nothing. — Mother Teresa
If knowing answers to life's questions is absolutely necessary to you, then forget the journey. You will never make it, for this is a journey of unknowables - of unanswered questions, enigmas, incomprehensibles, and, most of all, things unfair. — Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon
I am young, I am twenty years old; yet I know nothing of life but despair, death, fear, and fatuous superficiality cast over an abyss of sorrow. I see how peoples are set against one another, and in silence, unknowingly, foolishly, obediently, innocently slay one another. — Erich Maria Remarque
Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable. — Leonard Bernstein
Music . . . can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable. — Leonard Bernstein
It’s very hard to say how big the effects will be or how long they will last. That’s going to depend of course on how widely the virus spreads, which is something that is highly uncertain and I would say, in fact, unknowable. — Jerome Powell
Unanswered Quotes
Hope is willing to leave unanswered questions unanswered and unknown futures unknown. Hope makes you see God's guiding hand not only in the gentle and pleasant moments but also in the shadows of disappointment and darkness. — Henri Nouwen
Be sure that someday you'll praise and thank God for your unanswered prayers that once you had wept for them. — Shams Tabrizi
The greatest tragedy of life is not unanswered prayer, buy unoffered prayer. — F.B. Meyer
Character is both developed and revealed by tests, and all of life is a test... You will be tested by major changes, delayed promises, impossible problems, unanswered prayers, undeserved criticism, and even senseless tragedies. — Rick Warren
Would you know my name, if I saw you in Heaven? — Eric Clapton
How many times can a man turn his head, and pretend that he just doesn't see? — Bob Dylan
Please... tell me who you are and what you want. And if you think those are simple questions, keep in mind that most people live their entire lives without arriving at an answer. — Gary Zukav
Waiting on God requires the willingness to bear uncertainty, to carry within oneself the unanswered question, lifting the heart to God about it whenever it intrudes upon one's thoughts. — Elisabeth Elliot
I wish to fill in the gaps which have so far always remained unanswered in the souls of men as burning questions, and which never leave any serious thinker in peace, if he honestly seeks the Truth. — Abd-ru-shin
Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers. — Garth Brooks
Unanswered Questions Quotes
Does anyone know where the love of God goes when the waves turn the minutes to hours? — Gordon Lightfoot
If we don't love ourselves, tell me, how can we love somebody else? — R. Kelly
If I wrote you a love letter, would you write back? — 50 Cent
How can you laugh when your mother's hungry? How can you smile when the reasons for smiling are wrong? — Jethro Tull
I constantly felt (as I suppose many an ambitious girl has felt) a thumping from within unanswered by any beckoning from without. — Anna Julia Cooper
The only serious question in life is whether to kill yourself or not. — Albert Camus
If I didn't smell so good would you still hug me? — 50 Cent
Take off your rubber and there's one more inside her, it's not yours, who can it be? — Slick Rick
Who would be a poor man, a beggar man, a thief, if he held a rich man in his hand? — Jethro Tull
Unaccountable Quotes
Biden’s confusion isn’t new, and it implies a cryptic coup has occurred—whatever is functioning as President is unelected and unaccountable. Delaying the President’s exit to maintain political advantage is not defensible under our Constitution. Biden must step down or be removed. — Bret Weinstein
People can quarrel with whether we should have more troops in Afghanistan or internationalize Iraq or whatever, but it is incontestable that on the day I left office, there were unaccounted for stocks of biological and chemical weapons. — William J. Clinton
Pig power in America was infuriating, but pig power in the communist framework was awesome and unaccountable. — Eldridge Cleaver
To go out in a gondola at night is to reconstruct in one's imagination the true Venice, the Venice of the past alive with romance, elopements, abductions, revenged passions, intrigues, adulteries, denouncements, unaccountable deaths, gambling, lute playing and singing. — Peggy Guggenheim
The adventurous state of mind is a high house... The joy of adventure is unaccountable. This is the attractiveness of artwork. It is adventurous, strenuous and joyful. — Agnes Martin
The most effective way to restrict democracy is to transfer decision-making from the public arena to unaccountable institutions: kings and princes, priestly castes, military juntas, party dictatorships, or modern corporations. — Noam Chomsky
A miracle is an act or event out of the order of nature and unaccountable, as beating a normal hand of four kings and an ace with four aces and a king. — Ambrose Bierce
The discovery of the Square was a great event to the primitive mystics of the Nile. Very early it became an emblem of truth, justice, and righteousness, and it remains to this day through unaccountable ages have passed. — Joseph Fort Newton
There was after all no mystery in the end of love, no mystery but the mystery of love itself, which was large certainly but as real as grass, as natural and unaccountable as bloom and branch and their growth. — John Crowley
My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery --always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What's this passion for? — Virginia Woolf
Unexplainable Quotes
Weird itself, even in the dictionary, is just something that is different and unexplainable. A weirdo is someone who follows their heart. Im definitely weird, aint nothing wrong with that. — Kid Cudi
The person who will give you unexplained happiness, will also be the reason for your unexplained sadness. — Zayn Malik
We should not assume; however, that just because something is unexplainable by us, it is unexplainable. — Neal A. Maxwell
There is no definition of beauty, but when you can see someone's spirit coming through, something unexplainable, that's beautiful to me. — Liv Tyler
It's an unexplainable feeling, an expression. It's a touch, it's a feel. Once you feel it, it's like no other thing in the world. — Snoop Dogg
Confusion is the best form of communication. It's left to be unexplained. — Twiggy
Papa continually emphasizes how much remains unexplained. With the other psychoanalytic writers, everything is always so known and fixed. — Anna Freud
The walk of Faith is to live according to the revelation we have received, in the midst of the mysteries we can't explain. — Bill Johnson
Learning is by nature curiosity... prying into everything, reluctant to leave anything, material or immaterial, unexplained. — Philo
Deposits of unfinished grief reside in more American hearts that I ever imagined. Until these pockets are opened and their contents aired openly, they block unimagined amounts of human growth and potential. They can give rise to bizarre and unexplained behavior which causes untold internal stress. — Robert Kavanaugh
In many cultures it is customary to answer that God created the universe out of nothing. But this is mere temporizing. If we wish courageously to pursue the question, we must, of course ask next where God comes from? And if we decide this to be unanswerable, why not save a step and conclude that the universe has always existed? — Carl Sagan
You must bring every particle of your energy, unanswerable resolution, your best efforts, your persistent industry to your task or the best will not come out of you. You must back up your ambition by your whole nature, by unbounded enthusiasm and a determination to win which knows no failure. — Orison Swett Marden
We may not understand how the spirit works; but the effect of the spirit on the lives of men is there for all to see; and the only unanswerable argument for Christianity is a Christian life. No man can disregard a religion and a faith and a power which is able to make bad men good. . . — William Barclay
Most of what happens in the world is far beyond a dog's comprehension, so they must turn to their faith in us to help them navigate life's treacheries. Don't we, also, have unanswerable questions about the vagaries of modern existence for which the answer is beyond human grasp, so that only our faith can guide us? — W. Bruce Cameron
Under the summer roses When the flagrant crimson Lurks in the dusk Of the wild red leaves, Love, with little hands, Comes and touches you With a thousand memories, And asks you Beautiful, unanswerable questions. — Carl Sandburg
Evolution answers some questions but reveals many more questions. Some of these questions at this stage appear to be unanswerable in the light of present scientific knowledge. In common parlance: `The more you know, the more you know you don't know. — Barry Price
The door of the novel, like the door of the poem, also shuts. But not so fast, nor with such manic, unanswerable finality. — Sylvia Plath
In the midst of excitement, grief, joy, and solitude, I remind myself every moment that the sole mission of my life is to find the ultimate questioner - that unimaginable who has put me in this madness to answer an unanswerable question. — Kedar Joshi
The nonconformist and the rebel say all manner of unanswerable things against the existing republic, but discover to our sense no plan of house or state of their own. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fabricating answers to unanswerable questions is the domain of religion. A deity model is not the default alternative to a scientific mystery. — Graham Kendall
So when I think of, what is the meaning of life, to me, that's not an eternal unanswerable question. To me it is in arms reach of me every day. — Neil deGrasse Tyson
Oh! too convincing--dangerously dear-- In woman's eye the unanswerable tear! That weapon of her weakness she can wield, To save, subdue--at once her spear and shield. — Lord Byron
If men were ever to lose the appetite for meaning we call thinking, they would lose the capacity for asking all the unanswerable questions upon which every civilization is founded. — Hannah Arendt
Our Last Will and Testament, providing for the only future of which we can be reasonably certain, namely our own death, shows thatthe Will's need to will is no less strong than Reason's need to think; in both instances the mind transcends its own natural limitations, either by asking unanswerable questions or by projecting itself into a future which, for the willing subject, will never be. — Hannah Arendt
He that opposes his own judgment against the consent of the times ought to be backed with unanswerable truths; and he that has truth on his side is a fool as well as a coward if he is afraid to own it because of other men's opinions. — Daniel Defoe
If you can say a thing with one stroke, unanswerably you have style; if not, you are at best a marchande de plaisir; a decorative litt — George Bernard Shaw
Highly technical philosophical arguments of the sort many philosophers favor are absent here. That is because I have a prior problem to deal with. I have learned that arguments, no matter how watertight, often fall on deaf ears. I am myself the author of arguments that I consider rigorous and unanswerable but that are often not such much rebutted or even dismissed as simply ignored. — Daniel Dennett
Christianity claims that the supernatural is as reasonable as the natural, that man himself is supernatural as truly as he is natural, and that the Bible is so clearly the word of God by proofs that are unanswerable, that it is unreasonable to disbelieve its divine truths. — Abbott Eliot Kittredge
Tell me," said the atheist , "Is there a God really?" Said the master, "If you want me to be perfectly honest with you, I will not answer." Later the disciples demanded to know why he had not answered. "Because the question is unanswerable," said the Master. "So you are an atheist?" "Certainly not. The atheist makes the mistake of denying that of which nothing may be said... and the theist makes the mistake of affirming it. — Anthony De Mello
My mom was there to answer the unanswerable, to make sense of the fault in our life - and we got through that somehow; we came out on the other side. Now I'm 0 for 2 and I don't get any more pitches to swing at. — Daisy Whitney
Undoubtedly we have no questions to ask which are unanswerable. We must trust the perfection of the creation so far, as to believe that whatever curiosity the order of things has awakened in our minds, the order of things can satisfy. Every man's condition is a solution in hieroglyphic to those inquiries he would put. He acts it as life, before he apprehends it as truth. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
It must be granted that in every syllogism, considered as an argument to prove the conclusion, there is a petitio principii. When we say, All men are mortal Socrates is a man therefore Socrates is mortal; it is unanswerably urged by the adversaries of the syllogistic theory, that the proposition, Socrates is mortal. — John Stuart Mill
The only really interesting questions are the unanswerable ones. — Jacob Needleman
Adolescence is usually typified by an unanswerable combination of innocence and insolence. — Alice Thomas Ellis
How many fluids should you take in daily? That is an unanswerable question with all of the variables that affect our fluid needs at any given time. If you meet anyone who can answer that question for you, run away quickly. — Matt Stone
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