Easy Answers Quotes:

I guess if you want to know one single thing I'm about, it's that I'm against easy answers.

- M. Scott Peck

topic: Easy Answers, Want, Ifs

There are no easy answers, there's only living through the questions.

- Elizabeth George

topic: Easy Answers, Answers, Easy

There is always an easy solution to every problem - neat, plausible, and wrong.

- H. L. Mencken

source: H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.443, Vintage

topic: Business, Simple Solutions, Neat And Tidy, Solved Problems, Complex Problems

They say the world has become too complex for simple answers. They are wrong.

- Ronald Reagan

source: Ronald Reagan (2004). “The Greatest Speeches of Ronald Reagan”, p.4, NewsMax Media, Inc.

topic: Business, Simple, Answers, Easy Answers

There are no easy answers' but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.

- Ronald Reagan

source: Ronald Reagan, Michael Reagan (2016). “The Last Best Hope: The Greatest Speeches of Ronald Reagan”, p.5, Humanix Books

topic: Courage, Simple, Answers, One Nation Under God, Easy Answers

Good questions outrank easy answers.

- Paul Samuelson

source: Paul Anthony Samuelson (1986). “Coll Sci Pap V5”, p.561, MIT Press

topic: Answers, Environment, Easy, Questions Asked, Easy Answers

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

- Naguib Mahfouz

source: FaceBook post by Naguib Mahfouz from Jul 12, 2011

topic: Inspirational, Leadership, Wise, Egyptian, Clever Woman

I wish there were easy answers to people's health questions. There aren't. There are answers, all right, but they are not easy.

- Andrew Saul

source: Andrew Saul, Ph.D. (2009). “Doctor Yourself: Natural Healing That Works: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.439, ReadHowYouWant.com

topic: People, Wish, Answers, Easy Answers

The world is not about Batman and Robin fighting the Joker; things are more complicated than that. And nothing is scarier than the people who try to find easy answers to complicated questions.

- Marjane Satrapi

source: Source: www.believermag.com

topic: Fighting, People, Trying, Easy Answers

Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

topic: Wisdom, Pain, Divorce, Easy Answers

Remember how pissed you got when we had to do all that reading about the Rising back in sixth grade? I thought you were going to get us both expelled. You said the only way things could've gotten as bad as they did was if people were willing to take the first easy answer they could find and cling to it, rather than doing anything as complicated as actually thinking.

- Mira Grant

topic: Reading, Thinking, People, Sixth Grade, Easy Answers

The recent market run-up that appreciated run-of-the- mill shares also chanced to send up those token gold holdings. Pure luck, undeserved and unlikely to reoccur. Good questions outrank easy answers.

- Paul Samuelson

topic: Running, Luck, Gold, Easy Answers, Good Questions

There are consequences to our insatiable demands for energy and there are no easy answers for how to capture that energy safely. But even more pressing, since we are currently using nuclear power across the country and the globe, nuclear power plants must be regulated, and we need to be certain that our regulatory bodies are not compromised by their relationships with industry.

- Ivy Meeropol

topic: Country, Nuclear, Answers, Easy Answers, Power Plants

People knew there were two ways of coming at truth. One was science, or what the Greeks called Logos, reason, logic. And that was essential that the discourse of science or logic related directed to the external world. The other was mythos, what the Greeks called myth, which didn't mean a fantasy story, but it was a narrative associated with ritual and ethical practice but it helped us to address problems for which there were no easy answers, like mortality, cruelty, the sorrow that overtakes us all that's part of the human condition. And these two were not in opposition, we needed both.

- Karen Armstrong

source: "Big Think Interview With Karen Armstrong". Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. November 16, 2009.

topic: Mean, Practice, Two, Easy Answers, Fantasy Stories

The way I challenge myself is by writing something that really engages me, that doesn't have an easy answer, and isn't always an easy book to write.

- Jodi Picoult

source: Source: www.goodreads.com

topic: Book, Writing, Challenges, Easy Answers

We are living in complex, difficult times and I wanted Syriana to reflect this complexity in a visceral way, to embrace it narratively. There are no good guys and no bad guys and there are no easy answers. The characters do not have traditional character arcs; the stories don't wrap up in neat little life lessons, the questions remain open. The hope was that by not wrapping everything up, the film will get under your skin in a different way and stay with you longer. This seemed like the most honest reflection of this post 9-11 world we all find ourselves in.

- Stephen Gaghan

topic: Life Lesson, Character, Reflection, Easy Answers

As a reader I gravitate toward work that rests in the gray area, that doesn't come with easy answers.

- Laurie Foos

source: Source: therumpus.net

topic: Answers, Easy, Gray Area, Easy Answers

The story goes that every Jedi constructs his own lightsaber, and every penmonkey constructs his own pen. Meaning, we all find our own way through this crazy tangle of possibility. This isn't an art, a craft, a career, or an obsession that comes with easy answers and isn't given over to bullshit dichotomies. We do what we do in the way we do it and hope it's right. Read advice. Weigh it in your hand and determine its value. But at the end of the day - and at the start of it - what you should be doing is writing. Because thinking about writing and talking about writing just plain isn't writing.

- Chuck Wendig

topic: Art, Crazy, Writing, Easy Answers

The easy answer is to say that it's a part for black people to see black heroes, but to me it's important to young Mexican kids to see a black hero.

- Adrian Younge

source: "Ali Shaheed Muhammad and Adrian Younge Turned the '2016 Black Experience' Into the 'Luke Cage' Soundtrack". Interview with Justin Davis, www.complex.com. October 5, 2016.

topic: Hero, Kids, People, Easy Answers

It's a very complicated landscape and I don't think there's one easy answer about it [Edard Snowden movie].

- Zachary Quinto

source: Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

topic: Thinking, Answers, Landscape, Snowden, Easy Answers

What literature brings to our times is always the fact that literature refuses to bring any simple or easy answers.

- Sjon

source: Source: wwd.com

topic: Simple, Answers, Literature, Easy Answers

It's going to sound like the easy answer, but I love them both. I do! I really don't prefer one over the other. With movies, you really dive into a character for two to three months, but then it's gone. With a TV series, you have a constant location you're living in, and you're always working on the same character along with people who are like your own family. I'm lucky to have done both.

- Laura Vandervoort

source: Source: www.discdish.com

topic: Character, Two, People, Tv Series, Easy Answers

Though there might not be any easy answers to the problem of poverty, its most compelling scribes do not resign themselves to representation solely for the sake of those age-old verities of truth and beauty.

- Leslie Jamison

topic: Age, Answers, Might, Scribes, Truth And Beauty

Perhaps there is a simple answer -- not an easy answer -- but simple: If you and I have the courage to tell our elected officials that we want our national policy based on what we know in our hearts is morally right.

- Ronald Reagan

source: A Time for Choosing (aka "The Speech"), Air date 27 October 1964, Los Angeles, CA

topic: Heart, Simple, Answers, Easy Answers

When I asked the president [Barack Obama], can you kill an American on American soil, it should have been an easy answer. It's an easy question. It should have been a resounding and unequivocal no. The president's response, he hasn't killed anyone yet.

- Rand Paul

topic: Should Have, President, Answers, Easy Answers, Should Have Been

We see that it is not the task of Christianity to provide easy answers to every question, but to make us progressively aware of a mystery. God is not so much the object of our knowledge as the cause of our wonder.

- Kallistos Ware

source: Kallistos Ware, Kallistos (Bishop of Diokleia) (1995). “The Orthodox Way”, p.14, St Vladimir's Seminary Press

topic: Tasks, Answers, Causes, Easy Answers

Why do any of us act the way we do? Is it our beliefs or our biology that shapes us? Lauren Grodstein considers this eternal question through the story of Andrew Waite, scientist, father, widower, struggling to raise two daughters, living with the ghost of his wife, facing a test of his faith in science. There are no easy answers here, just the honest complexity of human beings trying their best to be good people. The Explanation for Everything is moving, beautiful, and wonderfully funny.

- Victor LaValle

topic: Beautiful, Daughter, Father, Widowers, Easy Answers

Sometimes I wish I had an easy answer for why I'm depressed.

- Ned Vizzini

topic: Wish, Answers, Sometimes, Funny Story, Easy Answers

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.

- Ann Romney

source: "Mrs Romney wows Republican crowd". "PM", www.abc.net.au. August 29, 2012.

topic: Smart, Dumb, Answers, Easy Answers

Life is complex. Each one of us must make his own path through life. There are no self-help manuals, no formulas, no easy answers. The right road for one is the wrong road for another...The journey of life is not paved in blacktop; it is not brightly lit, and it has no road signs. It is a rocky path through the wilderness.

- M. Scott Peck

topic: Journey, Self, Answers, Wrong Road, Easy Answers

We no longer ask of a judicial ruling or a legislative act: is it good? Is it fair? Is it just? Is it right? Will it help bring about a better society or a better world? Those used to be the political questions, even if they invited no easy answers. We must learn once again to pose them.

- Tony Judt

source: Tony Judt (2010). “Ill Fares the Land”, p.11, Penguin

topic: Political, Answers, World, Easy Answers

Abandon the urge to simplify everything, to look for formulas and easy answers, and to begin to think multidimensionally, to glory in the mystery and paradoxes of life, not to be dismayed by the multitude of causes and consequences that are inherent in each experience -- to appreciate the fact that life is complex.

- M. Scott Peck

topic: Life, Appreciation, Thinking, Easy Answers, Dismayed

I like to think of what happens to characters in good novels and stories as knots--things keep knotting up. And by the end of the story--readers see an unknotting of sorts. Not what you expect, not the easy answers you get on TV, not wash and wear philosophies, but a reproduction of believable, emotional experiences.

- Terry McMillan

topic: Philosophy, Character, Emotional, Easy Answers, Believable

The truth is there are a million steps, and we don't even know what the steps are, and worse, at any given moment we may not be willing or even able to take them; and still worse, they are different for you and they are always changing. I have come to believe the sooner we will fall in love with the God who keeps shaking things up, keeps changing the path, keeps rocking the boat to test our faith in Him, teaching us to not rely on easy answers, bullet points, magic mantras, or genies in lamps, but rather in His guidance, His existence, His mercy, and His love.

- Donald Miller

topic: Falling In Love, Teaching, Believe, Genies, Shaking

I eyed Dimitri, recalling a shadow in my periphery back in the ballroom. "You followed when I jumped in front of Lissa, didn't you? Who were you going for? Me or her?" He studied me for several long seconds. He could have lied. He could have given the easy answer by saying he'd intended to push both of us out of the way-if that was even possible, which I didn't recall. But Dimitri didn't lie. "I don't know, Roza. I don't know.

- Richelle Mead

source: Richelle Mead (2010). “Last Sacrifice: A Vampire Academy Novel”, p.297, Penguin

topic: Lying, Long, Shadow, Easy Answers, Roza

In seeking the help of the Congress and our countrymen, I pledged no easy answers. I pledged, and asked, only toil and dedication. These the Congress and the people have given in good measure.

- John F. Kennedy

source: Kennedy, John F. (1964). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963”, p.11, Best Books on

topic: Dedication, People, Presidential, Easy Answers

A faith that moves mountains is a faith that expands horizons, it does not bring us into a smaller world full of easy answers, but into a larger one where there is room for wonder.

- Rich Mullins

topic: Moving, Mountain, Horizon, Easy Answers

I don't care what you do - baseball or politics - George W. Bush is always going to be compared to his father. I just want it to be an easy answer in 50 years - Who was the better player, me, or my kids? I want it to be my kids.

- Andy Van Slyke

source: "Answer Man: Andy Van Slyke talks slugging Bonds, coaching first". Interview with David Brown, sports.yahoo.com. May 01, 2008.

topic: Baseball, Father, Kids, Easy Answers

Remember, an easy question can have an easy answer. But a hard question must have a hard answer. And for the hardest questions of all, there may be no answer - except faith.

- Charles Sheffield

source: Charles Sheffield (1992). “Brother to Dragons”

topic: Answers, May, Remember, Easy Answers, Hard Questions

What do you want to avoid? Such an easy answer: sloth and unreliability. If you're unreliable it doesn't matter what your virtues are. You're going to crater immediately. Doing what you have faithfully engaged to do should be an automatic part of your conduct. You want to avoid sloth and unreliability.

- Charlie Munger

source: "Charlie Munger USC Law Commencement Speech- May 2007 3/5". Youtube video, www.youtube.com. January 19, 2010.

topic: Sloth, Unreliability, Answers, Easy Answers, Craters

Whatever you think of de Sade, he was a complex figure and we should not look for easy answers with him. He was, strangely perhaps, against the death penalty, and he was never put in prison for murders or anything like that.

- Philip Kaufman

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Thinking, Looks, Answers, Against Death Penalty, Easy Answers

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.

- Bernhard Schlink

topic: Children, Thinking, Answers, Easy Answers, Hard Questions