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![An answer is invariably the parent of a great family of new questions. - John Steinbeck quote.](/img/q/71/5871A-an-answer-is-invariably-the-parent-great-family-new-questions-john-steinbeck.png)
An answer is invariably the parent of a great family of new questions.
A soft answer turneth away wrath.
![Life is made up of constant calls to action, and we seldom have time for more than hastily contrived answers. - Learned Hand quote.](/img/q/62/25162A-life-is-made-up-of-constant-calls-action-we-seldom-learned-hand.png)
Life is made up of constant calls to action, and we seldom have time for more than hastily contrived answers.
![The trouble with life isn't that there is no answer, it's that there are so many answers. - Ruth Benedict quote.](/img/q/15/26115A-the-trouble-with-life-isnt-that-there-is-no-answer-ruth-benedict.png)
The trouble with life isn't that there is no answer, it's that there are so many answers.
![His answer trickled through my head,
Like water through a sieve. - Lewis Carroll quote.](/img/q/17/26117A-his-answer-trickled-through-my-head-like-water-through-sieve-lewis-carroll.png)
His answer trickled through my head, Like water through a sieve.
Folly always knows the answer.
![The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind. - Bob Dylan quote.](/img/q/19/26119A-the-answer-my-friend-is-blowin-wind-bob-dylan.png)
The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind.
![There are answers which, in turning away wrath, only send it to the other end of the room. - George Eliot quote.](/img/q/20/26120A-there-are-answers-which-in-turning-away-wrath-only-send-george-eliot.png)
There are answers which, in turning away wrath, only send it to the other end of the room.
![A correct answer is like an affectionate kiss. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe quote.](/img/q/21/26121A-a-correct-answer-is-like-an-affectionate-kiss-goethe.png)
A correct answer is like an affectionate kiss.
![An answer is always a form of death. - John Fowles quote.](/img/q/22/26122A-an-answer-is-always-a-form-death-john-fowles.png)
An answer is always a form of death.
![Most people today don't want honest answers insofar as honest means unpleasant or disturbing. They want a soft answer that turneth away anxiety. They want answers that are, in effect, escapes. - Louis Kronenberger quote.](/img/q/24/26124A-most-people-today-dont-want-honest-answers-insofar-as-honest-louis-kronenberger.png)
Most people today don't want honest answers insofar as honest means unpleasant or disturbing. They want a soft answer that turneth away anxiety. They want answers that are, in effect, escapes.
Warped with satisfactions and terrors, woofed with too many ambiguities and too few certainties, life can be lived best not when we have the answers—because we will never have those—but when we know enough to live it right out to the edges, edges sometimes marked by other people, sometimes showing only our own footprints.
![Ah, what a dusty answer gets the soul
When hot for certainties in this our life! - George Meredith quote.](/img/q/26/26126A-ah-what-a-dusty-answer-gets-soul-when-hot-certainties-george-meredith.png)
Ah, what a dusty answer gets the soul When hot for certainties in this our life!
The shortest answer is doing.
![To really ask is to open the door to the whirlwind. The answer may annihilate the question and the questioner. - Anne Rice quote.](/img/q/28/26128A-to-really-ask-is-to-open-door-whirlwind-answer-may-anne-rice.png)
To really ask is to open the door to the whirlwind. The answer may annihilate the question and the questioner.
![Teachers who offer you the ultimate answers do not possess the ultimate answers, for if they did, they would know that the ultimate answers cannot be given, they can only be received. - Tom Robbins quote.](/img/q/29/26129A-teachers-who-offer-you-the-ultimate-answers-do-not-possess-tom-robbins.png)
Teachers who offer you the ultimate answers do not possess the ultimate answers, for if they did, they would know that the ultimate answers cannot be given, they can only be received.
![In the Book of Life, the answers are not in the back. - Charles Shultz quote.](/img/q/30/26130A-in-the-book-of-life-the-answers-are-not-back-charles-shultz.png)
In the Book of Life, the answers are not in the back.
![The only interesting answers are those which destroy the questions. - Susan Sontag quote.](/img/q/31/26131A-the-only-interesting-answers-are-those-which-destroy-questions-susan-sontag.png)
The only interesting answers are those which destroy the questions.
![However much you knock at nature's door, she will never answer you in comprehensible words. - Ivan Turgenev quote.](/img/q/33/26133A-however-much-you-knock-at-natures-door-she-will-never-ivan-turgenev.png)
However much you knock at nature's door, she will never answer you in comprehensible words.