Favorite Quotations ~ Answers

Square watercolor suggesting understanding β€” two hands meeting, gentle blues and golds Answers arrive in their own rhythm β€” sometimes through patience, sometimes through wonder, sometimes through long listening. These quotations gather voices that remind us to trust the unfolding, stay curious, and recognize that every answer has its own kind of light.

β€œWe grow in time to trust the future of our ans wers.” ~ Ruth Benedict

I roamed the countryside searching for answers to things I did not understand... why a bird sustains itself in the air. ~ Leonardo da Vinci

There are answers. Right answers. Correct concepts. Truth. Multiple-choice mania must become obsolete. ~ Curt Simmons

There ain't no answer. There ain't going to be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer. ~ Gertrude Stein

The only interesting answers are those which destroy the questions. ~ Susan Sontag

The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when someone asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer. ~ Henry David Thoreau

The answers worth getting are never in the back of the book. ~ Jeff Millman

If we really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem. ~ Jiddu Krishnamurti

It is not what you are called, but what you answer to. ~ African Proverb

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

Always look for a second right answer. ~ Charles Thompson

Again, a smooth answer, signifying nothing. ~ Euripides

When I have a problem and have done all I can to figure it out, I keep listening in an inside silence until something clicks and I feel a right answer. ~ Conrad Hilton