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• Parents - and teachers too - are woefully short-sighted when they try to protect the child from his mistakes, when they make the "right answer" more important than the quest for knowledge and good judgment. For what is not learned within one's self cannot be learned from another.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Teacher, Children, Mistake

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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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• There is one "right answer" to any question, and it is in the book to be read.

  Joseph Barrell

  Educational, Book, Answers

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• The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question, it's to post the wrong answer.

  Ward Cunningham

  Wrong Answers, Way, Computer

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• In Detroit, Ned [Harkness] kept talking about a new concept, and when I'd ask him what he meant he never gave me the right answer. Now, take Bobby Hull. Give him a puck, a stick and a pair of skates and put him on your team. Do you need a new concept?

  Frank Mahovlich

  Team, Talking, Giving

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• A clear right answer and the opportunity to change the options? This is the chooser’s dream.

  Sheena Iyengar

  Dream, Opportunity, Answers

  Sheena Iyengar (2010). “The Art Of Choosing: The Decisions We Make Everyday of our Lives, What They Say About Us and How We Can Improve Them”, p.176, Hachette UK

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• Look for the second right answer.

  Roger von Oech

  Looks, Answers

  Roger Von Oech (1986). “A Kick in the Seat of the Pants: Using Your Explorer, Artist, Judge, & Warrior to Be More Creative”, Harper Perennial

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• By the time the average person finishes college, he or she will have taken over 2,600 tests, quizzes, and exams. The right answer approach becomes deeply ingrained in our thinking. This may be fine for some mathematical problems where there is in fact only one right answer. The difficulty is that most of life isn’t this way. Life is ambiguous; there are many right answers- all depending on what you’re looking for. But if you think there is only one right answer, then you’ll stop looking as soon as you find one.

  Roger von Oech

  Life, Taken, College

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• One of the big misapprehensions about mathematics that we perpetrate in our classrooms is that the teacher always seems to know the answer to any problem that is discussed. This gives students the idea that there is a book somewhere with all the right answers to all of the interesting questions, and that teachers know those answers. And if one could get hold of the book, one would have everything settled. That's so unlike the true nature of mathematics.

  Leon Henkin

  Teacher, Book, Math

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• Thus we can get the correct answer for the probability of partial reflection by imagining (falsely) that all reflection comes from only the front and back surfaces. In this intuitively easy analysis, the 'front surface' and 'back surface' arrows are mathematical constructions that give us the right answer, whereas .... a more accurate representation of what is really going on: partial reflection is the scattering of light by electrons inside the glass.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Reflection, Arrows, Glasses

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• Everyone matures. When I was Newt's age, I thought I had the right answer to things. The baby-boomers as political leaders are still on trial by the American people.

  Pete du Pont

  Baby, People, Leader

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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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• 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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• Music is not a language. Any musical piece is akin to a boulder with complex forms, with striations and engraved designs atop and within, which men can decipher in a thousand different ways without ever finding the right answer or the best one.

  Iannis Xenakis

  Men, Design, Musical

  Introductory notes for Diatope performance, 1978.

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• The wrong answer is the right answer in search of a different question.

  Bruce Mau

  Different, Wrong Answers, Answers

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• Everyone has obstacles, and you're not going to have the right answer or do the right thing every single time.

  Shannon Miller

  Answers, Obstacles, Right Thing

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• Shall I tell you why young men love war? . . . In peace, there are a hundred questions with a thousand answers! In war, there is only one question with one right answer. . . . Going to war makes you a man. It is emotionally exciting and morally restful.

  Mary Doria Russell

  Peace, War, Men

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• He read a lot. He used a lot of big words. I think maybe part of what got him into trouble was that he did too much thinking. Sometimes he tried too hard to make sense of the world, to figure out why people were bad to each other so often. A couple of times I tried to tell him it was a mistake to get too deep into that kind of stuff, but Alex got stuck on things. He always had to know the absolute right answer before he could go on to the next thing.

  Jon Krakauer

  Couple, Mistake, Thinking

  Jon Krakauer (2011). “Into the Wild”, p.18, Pan Macmillan

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• It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life—daily and hourly. Our answer must consist, not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. 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

  Life, Mean, Responsibility

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.63, Beacon Press

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• Well, the correct answer is he is not a Muslim, he’s a Christian. He’s always been a Christian. But the really right answer is, what if he is? Is there something wrong with being a Muslim in this country?

  Colin Powell

  Christian, Country, What If

  "Colin Powell Chooses Meet the Press to Endorse Barack Obama". "Meet the Press" with Tom Brokaw, www.adweek.com. October 19, 2008.

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• When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness’ sake. But don’t make a production of it. Children are children, but they can spot an evasion quicker than adults, and evasion simply muddles ‘em. No... you had the right answer this afternoon, but the wrong reasons. Bad language is a stage all children go through, and it dies with time when they learn they’re not attracting attention with it. Hotheadedness isn’t.

  Harper Lee

  Children, Tkam, Sake

  "To Kill a Mockingbird". Book by Harper Lee, July 11, 1960.

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• To read as if your life depended on it would mean to let into your reading your beliefs, the swirl of your dreamlife, the physical sensations of your ordinary carnal life; and simultaneously, to allow what you're reading to pierce routines, safe and impermeable, in which ordinary carnal life is tracked, charted, channeled. Then, what of the right answers, the so-called multiple-choice examination sheet with the number 2 pencil to mark one choice and one choice only?

  Adrienne Rich

  Reading, Mean, Multiple Choice

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• religion is about having the right answers, and some of their answers are right... but i am about the process that takes you to the living answer... it will change you from the inside. there are a lot of smart people who are able to say a lot of right things from their brain because they have been told what the right answers are, but they don't know me at all.

  William P. Young

  Smart, People, Brain

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• Unlike earlier thinkers, who had sought to improve their accuracy by getting rid of error, Laplace realized that you should try to get more error: aggregate enough flawed data, and you get a glimpse of the truth. "The genius of statistics, as Laplace defined it, was that it did not ignore errors; it quantified them," the writer Louis Menand observed. "...The right answer is, in a sense, a function of the mistakes.

  Kathryn Schulz

  Mistake, Errors, Data

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