“Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.”
William S. Burroughs (1914–1997) American novelist, short story writer, essayist, painter, and spoken word performer
Also found http://books.google.com/books?id=kd41AQAAIAAJ&q=%22love+is+the+answer%22#search_anchor in "Quotations According to Woody Allen" http://books.google.com/books?id=kd41AQAAIAAJ&q=%22quotations+according%22#search_anchor from the New York Times, 1 December 1975.
“Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.”
William S. Burroughs (1914–1997) American novelist, short story writer, essayist, painter, and spoken word performer
Ivars Peterson (1948) Canadian mathematician
Source: The Jungles of Randomness: A Mathematical Safari (1997), Chapter 10, “Lifetimes of Chance” (p. 199)
“I don't know the question, but sex is definitely the answer.”
Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician
Howard S. Becker (1928) American sociologist
Howard Becker (1974). "Art as Collective Action." American Sociological Review 39:767-76.
“Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) German writer, artist, and politician
Anatol Rapoport (1911–2007) Russian-born American mathematical psychologist
Anatol Rapoport, "Modern Systems Theory – An Outlook for Coping with Change", paper given in the 1970 John Umstead Distinguished Lectures at North Carolina Department of Mental Health, Research Division, on 5 February 1970, and appeared in Revue Francaise de Sociologie, October 1969, p. 16
1970s and later
“That question is too good to spoil with an answer.”
Harry Mulisch book The Discovery of Heaven
Source: The Discovery of Heaven