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"Mysteries abound where most we seek for answers."

"There are these four ways of answering questions. Which four? There are questions that should be answered categorically [straightforwardly yes, no, this, that]. There are questions that should be answered with an analytical (qualified) answer [defining or redefining the terms]. There are questions that should be answered with a counter-question. There are questions that should be put aside. These are the four ways of answering questions."

"If I had a group under me, they would try and figure out what I wanted the answer to be, and they would tell me what I wanted to hear ... I've watched that approach at 20 public companies ... The main thing is: Are you reasonably sure that you know what you're doing?"

"It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question."

"Why do people always expect authors to answer questions? I am an author because I want to ask questions. If I had answers, I'd be a politician."

"Philosophy means to be on the way. Its questions are more essential than its answers, and every answer becomes a new question."

"Our questions and answers are in part determined by the historical tradition in which we find ourselves."

"I'm for mystery, not interpretive answers."

"The answer is never the answer."

"If you seek the mystery instead of the answer, you'll always be seeking. I've never seen anybody really find the answer, but they think they have."

"The need for mystery is greater than the need for an answer."

"Philosophical questions are not by their nature insoluble. ... Their answers are interpretations instead of factual reports."

"Have you ever considered that too many answers are the same as no answer at all?"

"Art is the expression of a man's life, of his mode of being, of his relations with the universe, since it is, in fact, man's inarticulate answer to the universe's unspoken message."

"Which eyes should I look for to find the ultimate unreasoned answer?"

"“Questions don't have to make sense, Vincent,” said Miss Susan. “But answers do.”"

"If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers."

"Cognition is autonomous; it refuses to have any answers foisted on it from the outside."

"There is a man in each scholar, a man who inquires and stands in need of answers. I am anxious to answer the scholar qua man but not the representative of a certain discipline, that insatiable, ever inquisitive phantom which like a vampire drains whom it possesses of his humanity."

"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."

"The question begs the answer, can you forgive me somehow?"

"It would be silly to throw away the right answer because we don't like it."