Right Questions Quotes

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

  Claude Levi-Strauss

  Inspirational, Wise, Wisdom

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• 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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• 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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• What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning.

  Werner Heisenberg

  Science, Perception, Quantum Physics

  Physics and Philosophy (1958)

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• And then what makes the work interesting is if you choose the right questions.

  Bruce Nauman

  Interesting, Asking The Right Questions, You Choose

  "'Setting a Good Corner'". Art21 Interview, art21.org. November 2011.

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• We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.

  Bono

  Thoughtful, Perspective, Questions And Answers

  Song: 11 O'Clock Tick Tock

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• If you don't ask the right questions, you don't get the right answers. A question asked in the right way often points to its own answer. Asking questions is the ABC of diagnosis. Only the inquiring mind solves problems.

  Edward Hodnett

  Success, Asking Questions, Mind

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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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• A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.

  Francis Bacon

  Wisdom, Educational, Creativity

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• Only the inquiring mind solves problems.

  Edward Hodnett

  Mind, Asking The Right Questions, Diagnosis

  Edward Hodnett (1955). “The art of problem solving: how to improve your methods”, Harper & Brothers

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• To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.

  Albert Einstein

  Real, Creativity, Science

  Albert Einstein, Leopold Infeld (1966). “Evolution of Physics”, p.92, Simon and Schuster

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• When we have arrived at the question, the answer is already near.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Deep Life, Answers

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.433, Harvard University Press

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• Asking a question is the simplest way of focusing thinking...asking the right question may be the most important part of thinking.

  Edward de Bono

  Thinking, Important, Asking

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• My older sister has entire kingdoms inside of her, and some of them are only accessible at certain seasons, in certain kinds of weather. One such melting occurs in summer rain, at midnight, during the vine-green breathing time right before sleep. You have to ask the right question, throw the right rope bridge, to get there-and then bolt across the chasm between you, before your bridge collapses.

  Karen Russell

  Summer, Rain, Sleep

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• The history of science knows scores of instances where an investigator was in the possession of all the important facts for a new theory but simply failed to ask the right questions.

  Ernst Mayr

  Important, Facts, Theory

  Ernst Mayr (1982). “The Growth of Biological Thought: Diversity, Evolution, and Inheritance”, p.29, Harvard University Press

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• An expert is not someone who gives you the answer, it is someone who asks you the right question.

  Eliyahu M. Goldratt

  Giving, Experts, Answers

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• When people ask me what philosophy is, I say philosophy is what you do when
  you don't know what the right questions are yet. Once you get the questions
  right, then you go answer them, and that's typically not philosophy, that's
  one science or another. Anywhere in life where you find that people aren't
  quite sure what the right questions to ask are, what they're doing, then,
  is philosophy.

  Daniel Dennett

  Philosophy, People, Answers

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• I learned, when hit by loss, to ask the right question: "What next?" instead of "Why me?" . . . Whenever I am willing to ask "What is necessary next?" I have moved ahead. Whenever I have taken no for a final answer I have stalled and gotten stuck.

  Julia Cameron

  Taken, Loss, Finals

  Julia Cameron (2002). “The Artist's Way: 25th Anniversary Edition”, p.179, Penguin

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• In my life the right question is simply this: What can I do to be happy today?

  Joshua Mohr

  Today

  Source: therumpus.net

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• What people think of as the moment of discovery is really the discovery of the question.

  Jonas Salk

  Thinking, Discovery, People

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• Ask the right questions, and the answers will always reveal themselves.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Answers, Asks

  "What Oprah Knows For Sure About Asking The Right Questions" by Oprah Winfrey, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 21, 2014.

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• In school, we're rewarded for having the answer, not for asking a good question.

  Richard Saul Wurman

  School, Asking Questions, Good Questions

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• The value of the security analyst to the investor depends largely on the investor's own attitude. If the investor asks the analyst the right questions, he is likely to get the right or at least valuable answers.

  Benjamin Graham

  Attitude, Answers, Analysts

  Benjamin Graham (1959). “The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel”

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• People often ask themselves the right questions. Where they fail is in answering the questions they ask themselves, and even there they do not fail by much...But it takes time, it takes humility and a serious reason for searching.

  William Maxwell

  Humility, People, Serious

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• Biblical social scientists have an advantage because they know truths about human nature. Those who dismiss the Bible and create surveys that don't measure crucial factors are the ones who have closed minds. Sometimes the Bible gives us clear answers and sometimes it doesn't, but it always helps us to ask the right questions.

  Marvin Olasky

  Biblical, Giving, Mind

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