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• The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions.

  Antony Jay

  Inspirational, Educational, Creativity

  Antony Jay (1994). “Management and Machiavelli: discovering a new science of management in the timeless principles of statecraft”, Jossey-Bass

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• There are no right answers to wrong questions.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Peace, Asking Questions, Wrong Answers

  Ursula K. Le Guin, Susan Wood (1980). “The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction”, p.139, Ultramarine Publishing

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• Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.

  Pablo Picasso

  Funny, Witty, Technology

  Quoted inWilliam Fifield, In Search of Genius (1982)

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• Good questions outrank easy answers.

  Paul Samuelson

  Nature, Asking Questions, Environmental

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

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• If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers.

  Thomas Pynchon

  Truth, War, Asking Questions

  Gravity's Rainbow episode 28 (1973)

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• Properly speaking, global thinking is not possible... Look at one of those photographs of half the earth taken from outer space, and see if you recognize your neighborhood. The right local questions and answers will be the right global ones. The Amish question, what will this do to our community? tends toward the right answer for the world.

  Wendell Berry

  Taken, Thinking, Space

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• The job is to ask questions - it always was - and to ask them as inexorably as I can. And to face the absence of precise answers with a certain humility.

  Arthur Miller

  Jobs, Humility, Faces

  National Observer, January 20, 1964.

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• Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.

  e. e. cummings

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Beautiful

  E. E. Cummings, Richard Kostelanetz, John M. Rocco (1999). “AnOther E.E. Cummings”, p.271, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Indeed, the only truly serious questions are ones that even a child can formulate. Only the most naive of questions are truly serious.

  Milan Kundera

  Children, Serious, Naive

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• Ask an impertinent question and you are on the way to the pertinent answer.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Courage, Science, Asking Questions

  Jacob Bronowski (1976). “The ascent of man”

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• By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him at all.

  George Santayana

  Nature, Men, Disposition

  George Santayana (2011). “The Life of Reason: Introduction and Reason in Common Sense”, p.86, MIT Press

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• Only the most naive of questions are truly serious.

  Milan Kundera

  Serious, Naive

  "Nesnesitelna lehkost byti (The Unbearable Lightness of Being)". Book by Milan Kundera, 1984.

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• A priest's life is spent between question and answer-- or between a question and the attempt to answer it. The question is the summary of the spiritual life.

  Naguib Mahfouz

  Spiritual, Life Is, Priests

  FaceBook post by Naguib Mahfouz from Sep 17, 2016

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• The most important aspect of freedom of speech is freedom to learn. All education is a continuous dialogue - questions and answers that pursue every problem on the horizon. That is the essence of academic freedom.

  William O. Douglas

  Graduation, Essence, Academic Freedom

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• A sign in the yard of a church next door said CHRIST IS THE ANSWER. (The question, of course, is: What do you say when you strike your thumb with a hammer?)

  Bill Bryson

  Doors, Church, Yards

  Bill Bryson (1989). “The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-town America”, p.55, VNR AG

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• My work stops at publication. If the books don't contain in themselves their reasons for being - questions and answers - it means I was wrong to have them published.

  Elena Ferrante

  Book, Mean, Reason

  Elena Ferrante (2016). “Frantumaglia: A Writer's Journey”, p.305, Penguin

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• If blind people wear sunglasses, why don't deaf people wear earmuffs?

  Bob Monkhouse

  People, Sunglasses, Blind

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• Why, in a country of free speech, are there phone bills?

  Steven Wright

  Country, Phones, Speech

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• Eternity is the place where questions and answers become one.

  Elie Wiesel

  Answers, Eternity

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• You love tests?" "Well, yeah. There are questions and answers. True or false, multiple choice, essay. What's not to love?

  Nora Roberts

  Multiple Choice, Choices, True Or False

  Nora Roberts (2008). “Tribute”, p.235, Penguin

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• Never, never, never on cross-examination ask a witness a question you don't already know the answer to, was a tenet I absorbed with my baby food. Do it, and you'll often get an answer you don't want.

  Harper Lee

  Baby, Examination, Want

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• There's nothing people like better than being asked an easy question. For some reason, we're flattered when a stranger asks us where Maple Street is in our hometown and we can tell him.

  Andy Rooney

  People, Hometown, Stranger

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• A dialogue is very important. It is a form of communication in which question and answer continue till a question is left without an answer. Thus the question is suspended between the two persons involved in this answer and question. It is like a bud with untouched blossoms . . . If the question is left totally untouched by thought, it then has its own answer because the questioner and answerer, as persons, have disappeared. This is a form of dialogue in which investigation reaches a certain point of intensity and depth, which then has a quality that thought can never reach.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Communication, Two, Important

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• Where does my fist go when I open up my hand? Where does my lap go when I stand up?

  Alan Watts

  Hands, Doe, Lap

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• My rule in making up examination questions is to ask questions which I can't myself answer. It astounds me to see how some of my students answer questions which would play the deuce with me.

  Henry Adams

  Play, Deuces, Examination

  Henry Adams (1951). “Selected letters”, New York, Farrar

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