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"If you have competence, you know the edge. It wouldnt be a competence if you didnt know where the boundaries lie. Asking whether youve passed the boundary is a question that almost answers itself."
"The wandering one, the inquisitive dreamer of dreams, the eternal asker of answers, stands in the street, and lifts his palms for the first cold ghost of rain."
"In motion alone is the answer to all of the mysteries of matter."
"The best way to get a better answer is to start asking a better question."
"God answers prayer in His own way, not ours."
"Some questions don't have answers, which is a terribly difficult lesson to learn."
"It answers the question that was tormenting you: my love, you are not 'one thing in my life' - not even the most important - because my life no longer belongs to me because...you are always me."
"Reasons come first. Answers come second"
"How are you going to change the world? The answer is easy. By changing the world that exists in your head."
"For an answer which cannot be expressed the question too cannot be expressed. The riddle does not exist. If a question can be put at all, then it can also be answered."
"If not for music, I would probably be a very frustrated scientist. It's one way to answer the question, 'What is the meaning of life?' I feel music answers it better."
"A religious person answers to God, not to the elected or non-elected official."
"Are you asking a question because you want to know the answer or are you asking the question because you want your partner to know that you are having this question?"
"The unconscious is the only available source of religious experience. This in certainly not to say that what we call the unconscious is identical with God or is set up in his place. It is simply the medium from which religious experience seems to flow. As to what the further cause of such experience might be, the answer to this lies beyond the range of human knowledge."
"There aren't any answers, only choices"
"Sometimes people don't answer because they didn't hear you, Other times it's because they don't want to hear you!"
"If you were starting over today, what would you do differently? Whatever your answer, start doing it now."
"You feed yourself. Make sure you have all the information, whether it's aesthetic, scientific, mathematical, I don't care what it is. Then you walk away from it and let it ferment. You ignore it and pretend you don't care. Next thing you know, the answer comes."
"There's no good answer to a question you didn't hear"
"Which questions guide our lives? Which questions do we make our own? Which questions deserve our undivided and full personal commitment? Finding the right questions is crucial to finding the answers."
