Sarah Dessen Quotes

I've always wanted to answer all the questions that nature posed for us.

You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.

It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.

I delight not in spreading any thing mysterious, for I consider it all lost time; but the things that all of us can see and know if we will.

An expert knows all the answers - if you ask the right questions.

We have learned the answers, all the answers: It is the question that we do not know.

Every single day, I'm curious about everything. Curiosity is finding answers to things.

every question possessed a power that was lost in the answer . . .

Truth is simple, requiring neither study nor art.

It's not a silly question if you can't answer it.

I picture heaven as a vast library, with unlimited volumes to read. And paintings and statues to examine galore. I picture it as a great doorway to learning...rather than one great dull answer to all our questions

There are works which wait, and which one does not understand for a long time; the reason is that they bring answers to questions which have not yet been raised; for the question often arrives a terribly long time after the answer.

Between the semi-educated, who offer simplistic answers to complex questions, and the overeducated, who offer complicated answers to simple questions, it is a wonder that any questions get satisfactorily answered at all.

A problem thoroughly understood is always fairly simple. Found your opinions on facts, not prejudices. We know too many things that are not true.

A person soon learns how little he knows when a child begins to ask questions.

I got these questions always running through my head. So many things that I would like to understand.

Knowledge makes everything simpler.

Ask dumb questions and listen quietly for the answers. That's a wisdom stair climber.

In a sense, knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows: for details are swallowed up in principles.

[Richard Feynman] truly believed that if you couldn't explain something simply, you didn't understand it.

An answer is invariably the parent of a whole family of new questions.

Explanation changes whatever is explained into something explainable.

To know is always better, no matter what the answer might be.

I hope we get to the bottom of the answer. It's what I'm interested to know.

You can recognize truth by its beauty and simplicity. When you get it right, it is obvious that it is right -- at least if you have any experience -- because usually what happens is that more comes out than goes in.