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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The more you see the less you know.
- Bono

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

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

The more you know the less you feel.
- Bono

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

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

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

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

Above all else, my inspiration is friendship.
- Bono

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

Objectivity is the cure for depression.
- Bono

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Don't lie down. Get up.
- 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

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

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

Religion can be the enemy of God.
- Bono

Grace defies reason and logic.
- Bono

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

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

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

I don't believe in wishful thinking.
- 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

Religion often gets in the way of God.
- 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

I feel exuberant. I don't pretend.
- 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Reality is what you believe it to be.
It's what you put your thought and energy into,
because your hands physically manifest thought.
So your world becomes what you feel and what you think.
- Jewel

The ancestor of every action is a thought.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

In the uttermost meaning of the words,
thought is devout, and devotion is thought.
Deep calls unto deep.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

When I examine myself and my methods of thought,
I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy
has meant more to me than
any talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
- Albert Einstein

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

I want it said of me 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

It is wonderful to have Faith,
but don't confuse trust with being gullible.
Balance trust with conscious thought.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

There are two kinds of failures:
those who thought and never did,
and those who did and never thought.
- Laurence J. Peter

One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light,
but by making the darkness conscious.
- Carl Jung

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