149 Unanswered Quotes

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An answer to a question no one asked is a wasted answer. — Esther Hicks

Good questions outrank easy answers. — Paul Samuelson

Good questions outrank easy answers. — Paul A. Samuelson

No answer is also an answer. - American Indian Proverbs

No answer is also an answer. — American Indian Proverbs

Questions are infinitely superior to answers. — Dan Sullivan

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

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

I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer — Douglas Adams

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

Unspoken feelings are unforgettable. - Andrei Tarkovsky

Unspoken feelings are unforgettable. — Andrei Tarkovsky

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

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

The answers you seek never come when the mind is busy, they come when the mind is still, when silence speaks loudest. — Leon Brown

It is not every question that deserves an answer. — Publilius Syrus

The most important questions in life can never be answered by anyone except oneself. — John Fowles

Short Unanswered Quotes

  • The greatest tragedy of life is not unanswered prayer, buy unoffered prayer. — F.B. Meyer
  • 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
  • Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers. — Garth Brooks
  • 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
  • There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers. — Teresa of Avila
  • In politics, a lie unanswered becomes truth within 24 hours. — Willie Brown
  • How much of you is repetition? — Sixto Rodriguez
  • If we don't love ourselves, tell me, how can we love somebody else? — R. Kelly

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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

All Unanswered Quotes

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

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

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

Calls ignored, texts unanswered, short replies, excuses made. All I can say is don't be surprised when you're not in my future. — Behdad Sami

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

Character is both developed and revealed by tests, and all of life is a test. — Rick Warren

All your questions can be answered, if that is what you want. But once you learn your answers, you can never unlearn them. — Neil Gaiman

Just wondering why I feel so all alone, why I'm a stranger in my own? — Sheryl Crow

Don't all the girls get prettier at closing time? — Mickey Gilley

I'd rather have all my questions unanswered and walk with God than not walk with God and have all my questions answered. — Rick Warren

Unanswered Questions Quotes

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

Nothing lasts forever. Should I? — Madonna Ciccone

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

Unanswered Prayers Quotes

Be sure that someday you'll praise and thank God for your unanswered prayers that once you had wept for them. — Shams Tabrizi

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

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

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

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

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

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

Silence is a figure of speech, unanswerable, short, cold, but terribly severe. — Theodore Parker

Unsolved 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

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

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

Unresolved Quotes

I just always wanted to study human behavior because every psychologist that I would talk to would tell me I was bipolar, and I know I'm not bipolar, so I had to perform a psychoanalysis on myself to find out that I have unresolved grief. — Kevin Gates

Love brings up our unresolved feelings . One day we are feeling loved , and the next day we are suddenly afraid to trust love . The painful memories of being rejected begin to surface when we are faced with trusting and accepting our partner's love . — John Gray

It is important not to allow ever wider coalition-building to become an end in itself. As we saw in the Gulf War of 1990, international pressures, particularly those exerted from within an alliance, can result in the failure to follow actions through and so leave future problems unresolved. — Margaret Thatcher

When it comes down to it, if you feel crappy it’s because your brain is telling you that there’s a problem that’s unaddressed or unresolved. — Mark Manson

I find in all the artists that I admire most a disturbing element, a distortion, giving evidence of a struggle . . . . In great art, this conflict is hidden, it is unresolved. All that is bursting with energy is disturbing - not perfect. — Henry Moore

It is brave to be involved. To be not fearful to be unresolved. — Gwendolyn Brooks

The feeling of being 'offended' is a warning indicator that is showing you where to look within yourself for unresolved issues. — Bryant H. McGill

What lingers from the parent's individual past, unresolved or incomplete, often becomes part of her or his irrational parenting. — Virginia Satir

Any pain entailed in repentance will always be far less than the suffering required to satisfy justice for unresolved transgression. — D. Todd Christofferson

A good marriage is not one where perfection reigns: it is a relationship where a healthy perspective overlooks a multitude of "unresolvables." — James Dobson

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More Unanswered Quotes

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

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

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