We thought that we had the answers,
by Bono

We thought that we had the answers,
it was the questions we had wrong.
- Bono

Related topics: Wisdom Perspective

This is our moment, this is our time.
- Bono

The more you see the less you know.
- Bono

The more you know the less you feel.
- Bono

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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I'm not on this trip as a tourist.
- Bono

I think wholeness is God's design for us;
and that often amounts to embracing contradictions.
- Bono

The world is more malleable than you think
and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
- Bono

I don't believe that imagining is enough.
- Bono

With manners comes insincerity.
Truth is sometimes difficult.
- Bono

You either do it completely and utterly,
or you should stop doing it.
- Bono (paraphrase)

Dream up the world you want to live in. Dream out loud.
- Bono

To carry each other is not a burden at all
but a kind of privilege.
- Bono

I actually enjoy being out of my depth - I thrive on it.
- Bono

My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong,
who made mistakes, but recovered from them.
- Bono

Above all else, my inspiration is friendship.
- Bono

Inspire people to do things for themselves.
Inspire people to think for themselves.
- Bono

My children have made me more aggressive about the world
that they're about to inhabit.
- Bono

The right to be irresponsible is a right I hold dear.
- Bono

I'm actually starting to like more and more people
who have convictions that are unpopular.
-Bono

To be one, to be united is a great thing.
But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.
- Bono

Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not.
- Bono

Objectivity is the cure for depression.
- Bono

You have to open yourself up,
you have to be raw;
and you have to reveal yourself,
and sometimes it's very difficult.
- Bono

I feel exuberant. I don't pretend.
- Bono

I love this work I do.
It's a privilege to serve the poor.
- Bono

Feelings are much stronger than thoughts.
We are all led by instinct,
and our intellect catches up later.
- Bono

Books! I dunno if I ever told you this,
but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
- Bono

Religion often gets in the way of God.
- Bono

Love interrupts, if you like,
the consequences of your actions,
which in my case is very good news indeed,
because I've done a lot of stupid stuff.
- Bono

There are righteous people working
in a whole rainbow of belief systems -
from Hasidic Jews to right-wing Bible Belters
to charismatic Catholics.
- Bono

It's hard to believe, hard to be a believer,
when you see the way the things are in the world.
But I am a believer!
- Bono

There are colors and feelings and emotional terrain
that we occupy that is ours and ours alone.
- Bono

God's Spirit moves through us and the world
at a pace that can never be constricted
by any one religious paradigm.
I love that.
- Bono

Don't lie down. Get up.
- Bono

Grace defies reason and logic.
- Bono

I want to have fun, and I want to change the world.
I have a chance to do both.
- Bono

I'm not religious at all,
but I believe in God very strongly.
- Bono

As a rock star, I have two instincts,
I want to have fun, and I want to change the world.
I have a chance to do both.
- Bono

Religion can be the enemy of God.
- Bono

Music can change the world because it can change people.
- Bono

Books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
- Bono

Everywhere I look, I see the evidence of a creator.
But I don't see it as religion,
which has cut Irish people in two.
I don't see Jesus Christ as being
in any part of a religion.
Religion to me is almost like when God leaves -
and people devise a set of rules to fill the space.
- Bono

I don't believe in wishful thinking.
- Bono

The less you know, the more you believe.
- Bono

I am still amazed at how big, how enormous
a love and mystery God is -
and how small are the minds
that attempt to corral
this life force into rules and taboos,
cults and sects.
- Bono

The Spirit is described in the Holy Scriptures
as much more anarchic than any established religion credits.
- Bono

It's stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.
- Bono

Stop asking God to bless what you're doing.
Get involved in what God is doing -
because it's already blessed.
- Bono

I'm a very loyal and unreliable friend.
- Bono

You hold onto religion, you know,
rules, regulations, traditions.
I think what God is interested in
is people's hearts, and that's hard enough.
- Bono

We can, if we get up off our ass, change the world.
- Bono

U2 is an original species...
there are colors and feelings and emotional terrain
that we occupy that is ours and ours alone.
- Bono

It's so sweet, I feel like my teeth
are rotting when I listen to the radio.
- Bono

People should be angry about a lot of things
and the peace-and-love thing
doesn't sit comfortably with me at all.
- Bono

Rock 'n' roll is ridiculous. It's absurd.
In the past, U2 was trying to duck that.
Now we're wrapping our arms around it and giving it a great big kiss.
- Bono

I don't doubt God. I have firm faith absolutely in God.
It's religion I'm doubting.
- Bono

I come from Ireland and I've seen the damage of religious warfare.
I am a believer. I don't wear the badge on the outside
but it is on the inside.
- Bono

I'm actually starting to like more and more people
who have convictions that are unpopular.
Now at what point does an unpopular conviction
interfere with your own human rights?
Forced female circumcision, for instance.
The Catholic Church's stance on contraception.
The list goes on. You know, God has some really weird kids,
and I find it hard to be in their company most of the time.
- Bono

It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are,
or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy.
It is what you think about.
- Dale Carnegie

It is neither good nor bad, but thinking makes it so.
- William Shakespeare

Friendship is born at that moment
when one person says to another,
"What! You too? I thought I was the only one."
- C. S. Lewis

Just when the caterpillar thought
the world was over, it became a butterfly.
- Anonymous

Die when I may, I want it said by those who knew me best
that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower
where I thought a flower would grow.
- Abraham Lincoln

If you want to improve,
be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
- Epictetus

You must not under any pretense allow
your mind to dwell on any thought
that is not positive, constructive, optimistic, kind.
- Emmet Fox

So your father, or your mother,
never thought you were good enough - SO WHAT?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

As soon as man does not take his existence for granted,
but beholds it as something
unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.
- Albert Schweitzer

Words make you think a thought.
Music makes you feel a feeling.
A song makes you feel a thought.
- E. Y. Harburg

Always aim at complete harmony
of thought and word and deed.
Always aim at purifying your thoughts
and everything will be well.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly.
The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Curiosity keeps one young - in thought and in action.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie