There are no right answers to wrong questions.
The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions.
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
Good questions outrank easy answers.
If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers.
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.
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.
Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.
Ask an impertinent question and you are on the way to the pertinent answer.
Indeed, the only truly serious questions are ones that even a child can formulate. Only the most naive of questions are truly serious.
By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him at all.
Only the most naive of questions are truly serious.
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.
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.
If blind people wear sunglasses, why don't deaf people wear earmuffs?
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?)
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.
Why, in a country of free speech, are there phone bills?
Eternity is the place where questions and answers become one.
It's the little questions from women about tappets that finally push men over the edge.
I was once doing a question and answer period with the novelist Jane Smiley in a bookstore and someone asked us what our processes were and Jane said hers and then I said mine and Jane said, "Well, if I had a student like that I'd force him never to write like that again because you could never write a novel in the way that you write poetry."
As I write, invariably I encounter more questions and answer those as I go.
I have more questions than answers in this world as do most poets and writers. The field of memory we exist in is absolutely encompassing and is both a question and answer. It is memory that provides the heart with impetus, fuels the brain, and propels the corn plant from seed to fruit.
My favorite question that is asked only of women is, 'What do you do with yourself all day?' The only possible answer is, 'Make nuclear bombs in my bathroom. Just little ones, though.
Whenever you do something without asking yourself, "Why am I doing this?"-that is meaningless life... . The "why" of life makes it meaningful... . Only when an answer is given is one living life as a man.
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