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

  John Capozzi

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

  Plato

  Important, Answers, 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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• 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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• There are no right answers to wrong questions.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Peace, Asking Questions, Questions And 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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• Keynes was a great economist. In every discipline, progress comes from people who make hypotheses, most of which turn out to be wrong, but all of which ultimately point to the right answer. Now Keynes, in 'The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money,' set forth a hypothesis which was a beautiful one, and it really altered the shape of economics. But it turned out that it was a wrong hypothesis. That doesn't mean that he wasn't a great man!

  Milton Friedman

  Beautiful, Mean, Men

  Opinion Journal, July 22, 2006.

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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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• Fighting with him was like trying to solve a crossword and realizing there's no right answer

  Taylor Swift

  Fighting, Trying, Answers

  Song: Red, Album: Red, 2012

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• She felt as she often did in class when she was nearly sure she had the right answer, but could not always make herself raise her hand.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Hands, Class, Answers

  Catherynne M. Valente (2012). “The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There”, p.193, Macmillan

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• She had that thing most people don't have - curiosity. She might not have always got the right answers, but she wanted to ask the questions. It's very hard if you are interested in ideas and all that, ideas and the philosophies of the past, it's very hard to find someone around here to really talk to. That's the tragedy of the thing really I mean, when you think about it. Certainly I can't find anyone around here to talk to anymore. And for a woman it's even harder you see. They can feel very trapped - because of the patriarchy. I do feel everyone needs to have these little chats now and then.

  Zadie Smith

  Philosophy, Mean, Past

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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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• President Clinton says he looks forward to the day a citizen can call the IRS and get the right answer to a question. I look forward to the day I can call the IRS and get a voice that says, 'Sorry, that number has been disconnected.'

  Jay Leno

  Sorry, Voice, Numbers

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• If I ran a school, I'd give the average grade to the ones who gave me all the right answers, for being good parrots. I'd give the top grades to those who made a lot of mistakes and told me about them, and then told me what they learned from them.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Education, Teacher, Mistake

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• His mind’s always on something else. He’d live in a ratty cardigan, and he’s always worrying holes in the pockets of his pants. He can never seem to find his wallet or anything in the refrigerator. And just when you think he’s not paying any attention to what you’re saying or doing, he comes up with exactly the right answer or solution.”", [J.D. Robb, Celebrity In Death"“People""who expect perfection in a mate miss a lot of fun—and sweetness.", [J.D. Robb, Celebrity In Death]

  Nora Roberts

  Fun, Thinking, People

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• But now I wonder--what if everyone is pretty much the same and it's just a thousand small choices that add up to the person you are? No good or evil, no black and white, no inner demons or angels whispering the right answers in our ears like it's some cosmic SAT test. Just us, hour by hour, minute by minute, day by day,making the best choices we can. The thought is horrifying. If that's true, then there's no right choice. There's only choice.

  Holly Black

  Angel, Black And White, Evil

  Holly Black (2012). “Black Heart”, p.189, Simon and Schuster

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• You loved me-then what right had you to leave me? What right-answer me-for the poor fancy you felt for Linton? Because misery and degradation, and death, and nothing that God or Satan could inflict would have parted us, you, of your own will, did it. I have not broken your heart- you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine." ~Heathcliff

  Emily Bronte

  Heartbreak, Broken, Degradation

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• The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions.

  Claude Levi-Strauss

  Inspirational, Wise, Wisdom

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• I actually think Bill Gates is conventionally smarter, even though it's a dumb word, but mental processing power - I've watched him use four different screens, process information, get to the right answer, boom boom boom.

  Walter Isaacson

  Thinking, Dumb, Use

  "Walter Isaacson: Bill Gates Was 'Conventionally Smarter' Than Steve Jobs". Walter Isaacson's speech at the event hosted by PCMag.com in New York City, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 15, 2011.

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• The day-to-day making of policy is arguing all the time. You're trying to get the right approach and the right answer, and there are moments that aren't very pleasant. But in the end, you look at the overall product.

  Madeleine Albright

  Trying, Looks, Answers

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• Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.

  John F. Kennedy

  4th Of July, Responsibility, Past

  John F. Kennedy's Speech at Loyola College Alumni Banquet, Baltimore, Maryland, www.jfklibrary.org. February 18, 1958.

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• I've seen how the issues that come across a president's desk are always the hard ones - the problems where no amount of data or numbers will get you to the right answer.

  Michelle Obama

  Data, Numbers, Issues

  Remarks at a Campaign Event, www.whitehouse.gov. September 13, 2012.

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• Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.

  Cesare Pavese

  Life, Education, Mistake

  Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.40, Transaction Publishers

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