Right Answers Quotes

• The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he is one who asks the right questions.

  Claude Levi-Strauss

  Science, Technology, Giving

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• The right question is usually more important than the right answer.

  Plato

  Important, Answers, Right Questions

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• Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers.

  Josef Albers

  Inspirational, Education, Appreciation

  Josef Albers (2006). “Interaction of Color”, p.70, Yale University Press

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• To get the right answer, it helps to ask the right question.

  John Capozzi

  Answers, Helping, Right Questions

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• It is not that we don't know the right answers, it is just that we don't ask the right questions.

  Tony Robbins

  Answers, Knows, Asks

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• I like Math because there's only one right answer.

  Brendan Fehr

  Math, Answers

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• Knowing the right questions is better than knowing all the right answers" Caleb from Pretty Little Liars (TV Show)

  Sara Shepard

  Liars, Tv Shows, Knowing

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• If you ask the wrong question, of course, you get the wrong answer.
  We find in design it's much more important and difficult to ask the right question.
  Once you do that, the right answer becomes obvious.

  Amory Lovins

  Inspirational, Business, Design

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• When you use Google, do you get more than one answer? Of course you do. Well, that's a bug. We have more bugs per second in the world. We should be able to give you the right answer just once. We should know what you meant.

  Eric Schmidt

  Giving, Google, Use

  "An Old Eric Schmidt Interview Reveals Google’s End-Game For Search And Competition" by Gregory Ferenstein, techcrunch.com. January 4, 2013.

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• On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.

  Charles Babbage

  Ideas, Two, Confusion

  Passages from the Life of a Philosopher ch. 5 (1864) See Countess of Lovelace 1; Modern Proverbs 35

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• Nelson Mandela stood up against a great injustice and was willing to pay a huge price for that. That's the reason he's mourned today, because of that struggle that he performed I mean, what he was advocating for was not necessarily the right answer, but he was fighting against some great injustice, and I would make the argument that we have a great injustice going on right now in this country with an ever-increasing size of government that is taking over and controlling people's lives, and Obamacare is front and center in that.

  Rick Santorum

  Country, Struggle, Mean

  "Rick Santorum: Nelson Mandela Fought ‘Great Injustice,’ Just Like Republicans Are Battling Obamacare" by Paige Lavender, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 6, 2013.

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• Our job is not to answer questions, its to ask the right questions...that get us to the right answer.

  Bill Buxton

  Jobs, Answers, Asks

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• You can choose who you want to be the hero [in Hard Candy], but youll be second-guessing yourself -- theres just no right answer. Our society is obsessed with finding good and finding evil, but I think were all capable of anything.

  Ellen Page

  Hero, Thinking, Evil

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• In life, when you are faced with an unfortunate circumstance, there’s no book, there’s no guide, there’s no right answer on how to get to the other side. You just sort of wake up one day and you have two paths in front of you, one where you go up and one where you can fall, and choosing the path to rise is most certainly not the easy path but it’s the brave one.

  Lea Michele

  Book, Fall, Two

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• Unlike in school, in life you don't have to come up with all the right answers. You can ask the people around you for help - or even ask them to do the things you don't do well. In other words, there is almost no reason not to succeed if you take the attitude of 1) total flexibility - good answers can come from anyone or anywhere (and in fact, as I have mentioned, there are far more good answers 'out there' than there are in you) and 2) total accountability: regardless of where the good answers come from, it's your job to find them.

  Ray Dalio

  Life, Jobs, Attitude

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• Self-inquiry is a spiritually induced form of wintertime. It's not about looking for a right answer so much as stripping away and letting you see what is not necessary, what you can do without, what you are without your leaves.

  Adyashanti

  Self, Inquiry, Answers

  Adyashanti (2009). “Emptiness Dancing: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.54, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• But in the new (math) approach, the important thing is to understand what you're doing, rather than to get the right answer.

  Tom Lehrer

  Education, Knowledge, Math

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• You mean am I for it or against it? You think this is a key question I'm going to be asked on Vega, and you want to make sure I give the right answer? Okay. Overpopulation is why I'm in favor of homosexuality and a celibate clergy. A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.

  Carl Sagan

  Mean, Thinking, Vegas

  Carl Sagan (1997). “Contact”, p.243, Simon and Schuster

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• It is the function of a liberal university not to give right answers, but to ask right questions.

  Cynthia Ozick

  Giving, Justice, Diversity

  Cynthia Ozick (1983). “Art & ardor: essays”, Alfred A. Knopf

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• Knowing the right questions is better than having all the right answers.

  Tyler Blackburn

  Knowing, Answers, Right Questions

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• Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Mean, Responsibility, Growth

  Viktor E. Frankl (2006). “Man's Search for Meaning”, p.82, Beacon Press

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• Ask the right questions if you're going to find the right answers.

  Vanessa Redgrave

  Asking Questions, Asking The Right Questions, Answers

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• Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life HAS NOT. In some schools they have abolished failing grades and they'll give you as MANY TIMES as you want to get the right answer. This doesn't bear the slightest resemblance to ANYTHING in real life.

  Bill Gates

  Life, Education, Real

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• Truthiness is what you want the facts to be as opposed to what the facts are. What feels like the right answer as opposed to what reality will support.

  Stephen Colbert

  Reality, Support, Climate

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• I know when I have a problem and have done all I can to figure it, I keep listening in a sort of inside silence 'til something clicks and I feel a right answer.

  Conrad Hilton

  Silence, Listening, Done

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