“If there is ever anything you want to know, you just ask me and we'll find the answer in a book."
This was a wonderful thing to hear and I believed her.”
Source: A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories
“If you can't find answers to the questions in your own mind, you'll look for them in other people's minds, and that's when it gets most dangerous: You might fall for the false or foolish answers others give to your questions!”
“As for Septimius, let him alone a moment or two, and then they would see him, with his head bent down, brooding, brooding, his eyes fixed on some chip, some stone, some common plant, any commonest thing, as if it were the clew and index to some mystery; and when, by chance startled out of these meditations, he lifted his eyes, there would be a kind of perplexity, a dissatisfied, foiled look in them, as if of his speculations he found no end.”
Source: Septimius Felton: or, the Elixir of Life
“Seek a fresh perspective by asking questions instead of relying on answers.”
Source: Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World
“Questions do not offend me, but I can't guarantee that the answers won't offend you.”
Source: The Best of Randall Garrett
“Answers aren't always painful, young man, but correct answers should never come cheap”
Source: You Like It Darker
“Sit alone. You will find all your answers. And maybe some questions you never thought to ask”
“Riddles: they either delight or torment. Their delight lies in solutions. Answers provide bright moments of comprehension perfectly suited for children who still inhabit a world where solutions are readily available.”
Source: House of Leaves: The Remastered Full-Color Edition
“Whatever I tell you, you'll still look for them," Peter said, at which Kaloyan smirked, shaking his head. “A person always seeks the most important answers about themselves as close to the source as possible.”
Source: I Didn't Mean to, But...
“What are you knowing that you do not want to know"?
I didn’t know it at the time. Could never have predicted all that would come to pass in the months to come. Would not have imagined the way the trajectory of a life could swing wildly on the power of 40 tiny, seemingly ordinary letters. But that is, in actual fact, what happened.
And yet, it changed everything that was and everything that would be.
We have this idea in life that we need to find the answers, discover the solutions, tie up the loose ends, and fill in the blanks. Leave no stone unturned in search of the truth. Sleuth out the mystery, solve the riddle, and find the treasure.
I’m shaking my head even as I write these words. If this life has taught me anything, it is that answers are lovely, sure. But it is the questions that hold the power.”