129 Unanswered Questions Quotes

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Famous Unanswered Questions Quotes

Good questions outrank easy answers. — Paul Samuelson

Good questions outrank easy answers. — Paul A. Samuelson

I got these questions always running through my head. So many things that I would like to understand. — Ronnie Radke

Questions are infinitely superior to answers. — Dan Sullivan

He who knows all the answers has not yet been asked all the questions. — Unknown

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

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

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

He who knows all the answers has not been asked all the questions. — Confucius

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

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

It's the questions we can't answer that teach us the most. They teach us how to think. — Patrick Rothfuss

I don't pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about. — Arthur C. Clarke

The combination of some data and an aching desire for an answer does not ensure that a reasonable answer can be extracted from a given body of data. — John Tukey

Every clarification breeds new questions. — Arthur Bloch

The questions that keep us up at night are the questions which drive us during the day. — Isaac Mashman

Short Unanswered Questions Quotes

  • The wilderness holds answers to questions man has not yet learned to ask. — Nancy Newhall
  • There are questions I'm still not wise enough to answer, just wise enough to no longer ask. — George Jones
  • The most important questions in life can never be answered by anyone except oneself. — John Fowles
  • I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer — Douglas Adams
  • We hear only those questions for which we are in a position to find answers. — Friedrich Nietzsche
  • It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers. — James Thurber
  • All life long, the same questions, the same answers. — Samuel Beckett
  • The questions don't do the damage. Only the answers do. — Sam Donaldson
  • There are years that ask questions and years that answer. — Zora Neale Hurston
  • Every scientific fulfillment raises new questions; it asks to be surpassed and outdated. — Max Weber

Unanswered Questions Image Quotes

Unanswered questions 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.

Questions Go Unanswered Quotes

Because many of us make mistakes that can have bad consequences, some intellectuals believe that it is the role of government to intervene and make some of our decisions for us. From what galaxy government is going to hire creatures who do not make mistakes is a question they leave unanswered. — Thomas Sowell

Now anxiety is the mark of spiritual insecurity. It is the fruit of unanswered questions. But questions cannot go unanswered unless they first be asked. — Thomas Merton

I just think that trusting God means we're going to have unanswered questions, and God is so much bigger than us, we're never going to understand them all. — Joel Osteen

Unanswered questions quote The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.
The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.

I have learned from personal experience that putting trust in God means there will be some unanswered questions. That was a hard lesson for me because I naturally want to understand everything... to know what's going on so I can feel like I'm in control. — Joyce Meyer

I talk to myself on paper about my characters - sometimes writing in first person... I keep lists of unanswered questions that I can always turn to in order to get myself going. — Phyllis A. Whitney

If you feel you have a strong constituency among the young, you can really die happy, because the great unanswered question, the only valid value judgment is whether you're going to last, and that tells you that you are, for a bit at least. — Martin Amis

Unanswered questions quote The man who asks a question is a fool for a minute. The man who does not ask, is a fool for life.
The man who asks a question is a fool for a minute. The man who does not ask, is a fool for life.

Do I gotta go sell me a whole lotta crack for decent shelter and clothes on my back? — Ice Cube

We have to live with ambiguity. We have to give ourselves over to it. The question is: How? How are we going to live in a universe where important questions will always go unanswered? — John Green

You never let things go unanswered for too long. Emails. Phone calls. Questions. As if you know the waiting is the hardest part for me. — David Levithan

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

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

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

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

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

Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers. - Garth Brooks

Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers. — Garth Brooks

Unanswerable 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

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

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

Arguments out of a pretty mouth are unanswerable. — Joseph Addison

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

Of all eloquence a nickname is the most concise; of all arguments the most unanswerable. — William Hazlitt

Unasked Quotes

Between me and the other world there is ever an unasked question: unasked by some through feelings of delicacy; by others through the difficulty of rightly framing it. All, nevertheless, flutter round it. How does it feel to be a problem? — W. E. B. Du Bois

It is personal vanity of the most flagrant type which intrudes itself, unasked, into other people's affairs. There are few of us who do not feel capable of ordering the daily lives of others, down to the most minute detail. — Myrtle Reed

Every age and every phase of life has some sense of respect associated with it, and you need to respect that. Though the intentions may be noble, sometimes our attempt to guide people, especially unasked for, makes them feel not respected. — Mahatria Ra

Wear your learning like a watch and do not pull it out merely to show you have it. If you are asked for the time, tell it; but do not proclaim it hourly unasked. — Lord Chesterfield

if it doesn't come bursting out of you in spite of everything, don't do it. unless it comes unasked out of your heart and your mind and your mouth and your gut, don't do it. — Charles Bukowski

It is well to give when asked, but it is better to give unasked, through understanding; and to the open-handed the search for one who shall receive is joy greater than giving. — Kahlil Gibran

I reject your impossible. Most of what others tell me is impossible I know to be improbable. If it is impossible you have nothing more to do but if it is improbable...you can choose to ask the unasked question or walk the unwalked step. For me that has made all the difference. — Gary Holder-Winfield

The more potent, unasked question is how society at large reacts to eager, voluntary violence by females, and to the growing evidence that women can be just as aggressive as men. — Katherine Dunn

What is left unsaid gets in the way of the relationship. What is left unasked-for is a missed opportunity. — Thomas Leonard

The greatest tragedy in life is the prayers that go unanswered simply because they go unasked. — Mark Batterson

Unsolved Problems 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

Pure mathematicians just love to try unsolved problems - they love a challenge. — Andrew Wiles

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

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

We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as unsolvable problems. — John W. Gardner

Every solution of a problem raises new unsolved problems. — Karl Popper

Theorems are fun especially when you are the prover, but then the pleasure fades. What keeps us going are the unsolved problems. — Carl Pomerance

Life is also a mixture of unsolved problems, ambiguous victories and vague defeats-with very few moments of clear peace. — Hugh Prather

Unsolved problems, that's one of the great signs of progress in my opinion. — Kenneth Arrow

Unanswered Prayers Quotes

If God can bring blessing from the broken body of Jesus and glory from something that's obscene as the cross, He can bring blessing from my problems and my pain and my unanswered prayer. — Anne Graham Lotz

There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers. — Teresa of Avila

Sometimes I thank God for unanswered prayers. Remember when you're talkin' to the man upstairs; that just because he doesn't answer doesn't mean he don't care. Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers — Garth Brooks

We impoverish God in our minds when we say there must be answers to our prayers on the material plane; the biggest answers to our prayers are in the realm of the unseen. — Oswald Chambers

It is far more comforting to think God listened and said no, than to think that nobody’s out there. — Mitch Albom

All prayers are answered. We need to distinguish between a prayer unanswered, and one not answered how or when we would like it to be. — Lloyd John Ogilvie

Thank God for unanswered prayers. — Garth Brooks

More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones. — Mother Theresa

Some unanswered prayers are only because God doesn't want to do something for us. He wants to do something through us. — Bill Johnson

More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones. — Mother Teresa

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More Unanswered Questions Quotes

Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart. — Rainer Maria Rilke

Does anyone know where the love of God goes when the waves turn the minutes to hours? — Gordon Lightfoot

How much of you is repetition? — Sixto Rodriguez

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

When you talk about what you want and why you want it, there's usually less resistance within you than when you talk about what you want and how you're going to get it. When you pose questions you don't have answers for, like how, where, when, who, it sets up a contradictory vibration that slows everything down. — Esther Hicks

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

Should I peel a cap or should I let him survive? — Ice Cube

Faith is about trusting God when you have unanswered questions. — Joel Osteen

I smoke herb, but what's the harm it that? — Nelly

When you look for independence and you get what you want, how come you look back thinking what have I done? — Joey Tempest

Why is everything that is bad for me feel so good? — Ludacris

If the sun warms up the rain, and the rain puts out the sun. Why does the greatest love become the greatest pain? — Stevie Nicks

Who is God? Who are we? What is our purpose? All these questions remain unanswered. I want to reach the genuine seeker of spiritual well-being. My goal is to satisfy the hunger and longing for those who are seeking the truth. — Ravi Zacharias

Nothing lasts forever. Should I? — Madonna Ciccone

How many pistols smoking coming from a broken family? — Tupac Shakur

I believe the evidence strongly supports common descent. But the root question remains unanswered: What has caused complex systems to form? — Michael Behe

Clearly, unless the Lord chooses to explain Himself to us, which often He does not, His motivation and purposes are beyond the reach of mortal man. What this means in practical terms is that many of our questions - especially those that begin with the word 'why' - will have to remain unanswered for the time being. — James Dobson

Moon appears to shine and light the sky with the help of some fireflies, wonder how they have the power to shine? — Peter Frampton

An unanswered question is a fine traveling companion. It sharpens your eye for the road. — Rachel Naomi Remen

If we rejoice in the acts of God without discovering His ways, we'll question who He is when He doesn't do what we've asked. — Bill Johnson

My goal is to satisfy the hunger and longing for those who are seeking the truth. — Ravi Zacharias

In studies asking why young people left their family religion, their most frequent response was unanswered doubts and questions. The researchers were surprised: They expected to hear stories of broken relationships and wounded feelings. But the top reason given by young adults was that they did not get answers to their questions. — Nancy Pearcey

Tell me where are the flashbacks they all warned us would come? — Jimmy Buffett

Living by faith isn't living with certainty. It's trusting God in spite of unanswered questions and unresolved doubts. — Rick Warren

I regret nothing. There have been things I missed, but I ask no questions, because I have loved it, such as it has been, even the moments of emptiness, even the unanswered-and that I loved it, that is the unanswered in my life. — Ayn Rand

Don't the wounded bird still sing? — Sheryl Crow

Are you happy when you stick a needle in your vein? — Stevie Wonder

Laughter would appear to be a physical reflex, although even if it is, this still leaves unanswered the question of why the human response to humor is a convulsive spasm of the respiratory mechanism rather than a crossing of the eyes or a waving of the arms. — Steve Allen

Many people can't deal with unanswered questions, which religion exploits by providing answers, even if they are just made up by someone. This is also why we love TV shows and movies that neatly wrap up everything in exactly an hour or two. — Bill Maher

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