Answer - Quotes
Examinations are formidable things, even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.
I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn`t know.
Maybe self-improvement isn`t the answer, maybe self-destruction is the answer.
The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.
Is it not better to place a question mark upon a problem while seeking an answer than to put the label "God" there and consider the matter solved?
Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual.
And pray that I may forget
These matters that with myself I too much discuss
Too much explain
Because I do not hope to turn again
Let these words answer
For what is done, not to be done again
May the judgement not be too heavy upon us
Because these wings are no longer wings to fly
But merely vans to beat the air
The air which is now thoroughly small and dry
Smaller and dryer than the will
Teach us to care and not to care
Teach us to sit still.
For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: `If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?` And whenever the answer has been `No` for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn`t.
Every biologist has at some time asked `What is life?` and none has ever given a satisfactory answer. Science is built on the premise that Nature answers intelligent questions intelligently; so if no answer exists, there must be something wrong with the question.
A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.
You are the call and I am the answer
You are the wish, and I the fulfilment,
You are the night, and I the day.
What else - it is perfect enough.