Conversation Quote by Brian Christian

“Can you answer who you are, without thinking of what someone else might think of this answer?”

— Dawn Avalon

“The reason for this is that every person permits himself the liberty of making guesses in the matter of an obscure subject with more…

— René Descartes

“And it was the first time that I believed the claim that you can help a person more by asking them the right question…

— Amy Hempel

“If you can get others to believe that your random guesses are actual answers, they’ll never guess that you never understood the question in…

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

“I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers…

— Richard P. Feynman

“The need for answers is suddenly greater than my ability to handle them – perhaps I will just disappear into never knowing. Perhaps it’ll…

— Carol Mason

“The answer is simpler than you think.”

— Alan Cohen

“In fact, as I get older, I begin to feel that actually what we need more in the world is doubt; more skepticism, less…

— Ian McEwan

“when faced with a difficult question, we often answer an easier one instead, usually without noticing the substitution.”

— Daniel Kahneman

“Sometimes you know the answer to a question deep down but you ask the question for some other reason.”

— Allan Dare Pearce

“the more likely we are to assume that the solution comes from the outside, the less likely we are to solve our problems ourselves.”

— Jason Luttgens

“We barely know who we are and yet we are forever searching for the answers to the most basic of questions.”

— Joann Buchanan