Unanswerable Quotes

You've had four years (in jail) to think about how you're going to answer these unanswerable questions. - Ed Hazel

We may not understand how the spirit works; but the effect of the spirit on the lives of men is there for all to see; and the only unanswerable argument for Christianity is a Christian life. No man can disregard a religion and a faith and a power which is able to make bad men good. . . - William Barclay

The truth is that in our lives we are all going to encounter questions that should be answered, that deserve to be answered, and yet prove unanswerable. - John Green

So, when I write a piece of fiction I select my characters and settings and so on because they have a bearing, at least to me, on the old unanswerable philosophical questions. And as I spin out the action, Im always very concerned with springing discoveries, actual philosophical discoveries. But at the same time Im concerned and finally more concerned with what the discoveries do to the character who makes them, and to the people around him. Its that that makes me not really a philosopher, but a novelist. - John Gardner

Oh! too convincing -- dangerously dear -- In woman's eye the unanswerable tear! - Lord Byron

Of all eloquence a nickname is the most concise; of all arguments the most unanswerable. - William Hazlitt

I don't spend much time thinking about whether God exists. I don't consider that a relevant question. It's unanswerable and irrelevant to my life, so I put it in the category of things I can't worry about. - Wendy Kaminer

I didn't respond to people thrusting microphones at me and asking me questions that were unanswerable in a sound bite. - Bill Ayers

Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable. - C.S. Lewis