In a world brimming with questions, finding the right answers can be both empowering and transformative. Answers have the unique ability to enlighten, comfort, and drive us forward, making them invaluable in every aspect of life. This collection of 36 powerful answer quotes is thoughtfully curated to inspire reflection and clarity. Whether you're seeking motivation to tackle life's challenges or wisdom to guide your journey, these quotes offer profound insights that resonate with the human spirit. Join us as we explore these impactful words, crafted by thinkers and leaders, each offering a window into the art of answering life's most essential questions.
1. “Exactly!" said Deep Thought. "So once you do know what the question actually is, you'll know what the answer means.” - Douglas Adams
2. “I wish I had an answer to that because I'm tired of answering that question.” - Yogi Berra
3. “There are a dozen views about everything until you know the answer. Then there's never more than one.” - C.S. Lewis
4. “Os livros são escritos devido a anos virados do avesso por ideias que não nos libertam até serem escritas e, até mesmo então, a escrita é o último recurso, um resgate desesperado que pagamos para que a vida nos seja devolvida.” - Richard Bach
5. “Whats the difference between a king and his horse?I dont mean some kiddy shit like one has 4 legs and the other has 2, or ones a person and ones an animal. If their form, ability, and power is exactly the same, then why is it one becomes the king and controls the battle and the other one becomes the horse and carries the king? There's only one answer...INSTINCT!!!” - Tite Kubo
6. “Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing.” - Euripides
7. “A scientist doesn't know all the answers. Nobody does, not even teachers. But a scientist keeps on trying to find the answers.” - Oliver Butterworth
8. “There are many problems which could only be solved by generations which are still to be born later. It's only one way of many how God gives answers to human problems and prayers.” - Toba Beta
9. “If one can't answer, simplify the question.” - Toba Beta
10. “For every question, there is an answer. Where everybody fails is by asking the wrong question.” - Richard Diaz
11. “The trouble with lifeisn't that there is no answer,but that there are so many answers” - Ruth Benedict
12. “Q: Why do I love thee, O Night?A: Because you know I will never answer.” - Vera Nazarian
13. “Voicemail #1: “Hi, Isabel Culpeper. I am lying in my bed, looking at the ceiling. I am mostly naked. I am thinking of … your mother. Call me.”Voicemail #2: The first minute and thirty seconds of “I’ve Gotta Get a Message to You” by the Bee Gees. Voicemail #3: “I’m bored. I need to be entertained. Sam is moping. I may kill him with his own guitar. It would give me something to do and also make him say something. Two birds with one stone! I find all these old expressions unnecessarily violent. Like, ring around the rosy. That’s about the plague, did you know? Of course you did. The plague is, like, your older cousin. Hey, does Sam talk to you? He says jack shit to me. God, I’m bored. Call me.”Voicemail #4: “Hotel California” by the Eagles, in its entirety, with every instance of the word California replaced with Minnesota. Voicemail #5: “Hi, this is Cole St. Clair. Want to know two true things? One, you’re never picking up this phone. Two, I’m never going to stop leaving long messages. It’s like therapy. Gotta talk to someone. Hey, you know what I figured out today? Victor’s dead. I figured it out yesterday, too. Every day I figure it out again. I don’t know what I’m doing here. I feel like there’s no one I can —”Voicemail #6: “So, yeah, I’m sorry. That last message went a little pear-shaped. You like that expression? Sam said it the other day. Hey, try this theory on for size: I think he’s a dead British housewife reincarnated into a Beatle’s body. You know, I used to know this band that put on fake British accents for their shows. Boy, did they suck, aside from being assholes. I can’t remember their name now. I’m either getting senile or I’ve done enough to my brain that stuff’s falling out. Not so fair of me to make this one-sided, is it? I’m always talking about myself in these things. So, how are you, Isabel Rosemary Culpeper? Smile lately? Hot Toddies. That was the name of the band. The Hot Toddies.”Voicemail #20: “I wish you’d answer.” - Maggie Stiefvater
14. “Free, I think. They're free.(is this why she joined them?)I feel so-So relieved.I pick up the pace as I near the opening, my hands gripping my rifle but I have a feeling I ain't gonna need it.(ah, Viola, I knew I could count-)Then I reach the opening and stop.Everything stops.My stomach falls right thru my feet."They're all gone?" Davy says, coming up beside me.Then he see what I see."What the-?" Davy says.The Spackle ain't all gone.They're still here.Every single one.All 1150 of them.Dead.” - Patrick Ness
15. “What would answers offer and--more importantly--what might they take away?” - Laura Kelly
16. “Most of us have nicknames—annoying, endearing, embarrassing.But what about your true name?It is not necessarily your given name. But it is the one to which you are most eager to respond when called.Ever wonder why?Your true name has the secret power to call you.” - Vera Nazarian
17. “The Professor never really seemed to care whether we figured out the right answer to a problem. He preferred our wild, desperate guesses to silence, and he was even more delighted when those guesses led to new problems that took us beyond the original one. He had a special feeling for what he called the "correct miscalculation," for he believed that mistakes were often as revealing as the right answers.” - Yoko Ogawa
18. “To be alive, it seemed to me, as I stood there in all kinds of sorrow, was to be both original and reflection, and to be dead was to be split off, to be reflection alone.” - Teju Cole
19. “The answer is that there is no good answer. So as parents, as doctors, as judges, and as a society, we fumble through and make decisions that allow us to sleep at night--because morals are more important than ethics, and love is more important than law.” - Jodi Picoult
20. “She didn't have an answer for that. People like her only ever have questions.” - Steven Herrick
21. “If you have to ask then you don't deserve an answer.” - Neal Shusterman
22. “There was no answer, except the general answer life gives to all the most complex and insoluble questions. That answer is: one must live for the needs of the day, in other words, become oblivious.” - Leo Tolstoy
23. “We both knew that what I said was the truth, as well as being a lie. The pure and honest answer was pinging between us, hovering above the weeds.” - Sonya Hartnett
24. “Fisher just stood there lost in thought, without saying anything. There is always a rational explanation for everything in this world - whether it's the true one or not. Maybe it is better so. ("I'm Dangerous Tonight")” - Cornell Woolrich
25. “It's a lovely answer and takes me entirely by surprise. I hadn't realized we were having a serious conversation, or I think I would've given a better reply when he asked me.” - Maggie Stiefvater
26. “The real question one should ask when presented with a puzzle is, ‘Should I solve it? Do I really need to know the answer?” - Tony DiTerlizzi
27. “It's the duty of art to ask questions, not to provide answers. And if you want a clearer answer, I'll have to pass.” - Michael Haneke
28. “He had an answer to almost everything and he retired at an early age.” - Dejan Stojanovic
29. “Why poetry, you ask? Because of life, I answer.” - Dejan Stojanovic
30. “There is always the question why And there is always life, Which doesn't need an answer.” - Dejan Stojanovic
31. “Sometimes the answer we need is in our heart. We just have to listen to it.” - Abbi Glines
32. “...You know something, don't you?""I know lots of things--your inquiry needs to be more specific.""Just answer the question.""True/false or multiple choice?” - Neal Shusterman
33. “In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.” - Christopher Morley
34. “I love that she loves me a 10, on a 5-point scale. Well, I know it’s a 5-point scale, though I asked her on a 1-100 scale. ” - Dark Jar Tin Zoo
35. “I learned that things are never as complicated as we imagine them to be. It is only our arrogance which seeks to find complicated answers to simple problems.” - Muhammad Yunus
36. “Knowledge is the stuff from which new ideas are made. Thus, the real key to being creative lies in what you do with your knowledge.” - Roger Von Oech
