A Quote by Bernhard Schlink
I did not know that children think the hard questions they ask are easy and thus expect easy answers to them, and that they are disappointed when they get cautious, complex answers.
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I feel like people expect me to give them easy answers, but there aren't really easy answers. There are only harder questions. And unless we get to the harder questions part, about what this conversation is really about...of course I want an immigration bill to pass. I want people to have a driver's license and work permits and green cards and passports. But this conversation transcends this bill. We're not going to have a perfect bill. This is politics. I feel like my job is instead of giving people easy answers, my job is to actually to ask people to probe deeper.
I wish there were easy answers to people's health questions. There aren't. There are answers, all right, but they are not easy.
It's okay to ask questions, but get the answers. So, where are the answers? Since the questions came from within you, guess where the answers are? Within you.
We did that often, asking each other questions whose answers we already knew. Perhaps it was so that we would not ask the other questions, the ones whose answers we did not want to know.
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.
Questions are great, but only if you know the answers. If you ask questions and the answers surprise you, you look silly.
Easy answers are never really useful ones, so hopefully we're not trying to peddle easy answers.
Language was invented to ask questions. Answers may be given by grunts and gestures, but questions must be spoken. Humanness came of age when man asked the first question. Social stagnation results not from a lack of answers but from the absence of the impulse to ask questions.
Rather than recognising the challenges of a fast-changing society require sometimes complex responses, that we live in a world of trade-offs, that easy answers are usually false answers, we have seen the rise of the simplifiers.
There are no easy answers' but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.
There are no easy answers, but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.
We're too smart to know there aren't easy answers. But we're not dumb enough to accept that there aren't better answers.
You have to learn to ask questions in a way that will elicit more nuanced answers, rather than the answers you would like to get.
People will continue to search for answers to universal and perplexing problems. But to find meaningful answers, one must first know what questions to ask.
Rarely does an interviewer ask questions you did not expect. I have given a lot of interviews, and I have concluded that the questions always look alike. I could always give the same answers.
So many reporters ask a lot of crazy questions. The answers to most of these questions are so obvious, but they ask them anyway just to see what kind of reaction they can get out of you.
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