1,806 Quotes About Answers

The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything.

Many years afterwards, we attempt to solve puzzles that were not mysteries at the time and we try to decipher half-obliterated letters from a language that is too old and whose alphabet we don't even know.

Absence of questions is not proof of answers.

Answers were always important, but they were seldom easy.

Salem is in part a story of what happens when a set of unanswerable questions meets a set of unquestioned answers.

[I]n spite of her work as a reference librarian, she discovered that life isn't about knowing all the answers. The best we can do is make peace with our questions, learn who we are, know our strengths, and do the best we can with the gifts we've been given while we're here.

Ones there is a demand, it is our obligation to supply the answers, give the right responses for us to fully enjoy life

A problem is an answer waiting to be opened

It's only that the answers in most stories are boring because they are supplied by the real world rather than, well, something better. Something more stimulating. Sit down with the Greeks and the Romans, and the boring answers get more interesting. Seasons because a girl and a crocus. Death because a girl and an apple. The moon because a girl keeps driving her daft chariot into the sea.It's all down to girls, one way or another.