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Quotes including the word “answer”.

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Mario Benedetti

I know I will love you without questions, I know you will love me without answers.

Pearl Buck

The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.

W. Burroughs

Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.

Albert Camus

You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.

Truman Capote

More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones.

Anton Chekhov

The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.

Sigmund Freud

The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is “What does a woman want?”

Erich Fromm

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

Ionesco

It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.

Stanislaw Lem

There are no answers, only choices.

Levi-Strauss

The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he's one who asks the right questions.

Norman Mailer

Obsession is the single most wasteful human activity, because with an obsession you keep coming back and back and back to the same question and never get an answer.

Gabriela Mistral

We are guilty of many errors and many faults, but our worst crime is abandoning the children, neglecting the fountain of life. Many of the things we need can wait. The child cannot. Right now is the time his bones are being formed, his blood is being made, and his senses are being developed. To him we cannot answer ‘Tomorrow,’ his name is today.

Jean Piaget

Play is the answer to how anything new comes about.Play is the work of childhood.

Saramago

Your questions are false if you already know the answer.

Voltaire

Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.

Iannis Xenakis

"Music is not a language. Any musical piece is akin to a boulder with complex forms, with striations and engraved designs atop and within, which men can decipher in a thousand different ways without ever finding the right answer or the best one..."

Emile Zola

If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud.