The magnificently humble. The enormously small. The meaningfully ridiculous. Robert Walser's work often reads like a dazzling answer to the question, How immense can modesty be?
It's most presumptuous to believe we already know all the answers and will never get any more big surprises.
All that Hubert needs over there is a gal to answer the phone and a pencil with an eraser on it.
The principle of Sturgeon's Razor states that the simplest answer to any problem is 90% crap
The problem with God - or at any rate, one of the top five most annoying things about God - is that he or she rarely answers right away.
If you seek answers you won't find them, but if you seek God, the answers will find you.
There's no answer for my offense, just like the polythagorean theorem.
Bare," came her answer in a squeak. "Yes, we'd both have to be bare," he said with a laugh. "Not bare naked," she gasped. "Bear bear. Furry bear. Bear!" -Mortimer and Sam
It doesn't matter what answers you get if you ask the wrong questions.
The American public's a lot more sophisticated than we all give them credit for. And on complicated issues, I'm going to give them straight answers. And if it takes more than three minutes, I'm going to do it.
A piece of art is never a finished work. It answers a question which has been asked, and asks a new question.
Collectivism answers: The power of society is unlimited. Society may make any laws it wishes, and force them upon anyone in any manner it wishes.
You say to me 'Show me your God. ' I answer you, 'Everything you see in your heart that might sadden God, remove. '
We don't need answers and explanations as much as we need God's presence in and through the suffering.
Our very life depends on everythings' recurring til we answer from within.
Most years, if you were to ask me how much I make, the genuine answer is that I have no clue. I usually find out the answer to that question once a year, at tax time, when my accountant tells me.
Betray mean terror of ridicule, thou shalt find fools enough to mock thee; but answer thou their language with contempt, and the scoffers will lick thy feet.
You are always your own best guru, your own best teacher, the answers are always inside you.
Ask the right questions if you're going to find the right answers.
What we do as a society is seek simple answers.