Right Questions Quotes

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

  Claude Levi-Strauss

  Inspirational, Wise, Wisdom

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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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• 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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• A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.

  Francis Bacon

  Wisdom, Educational, Creativity

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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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• 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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• Every good educator knows that true teaching is to teach kids how to ask the right questions.

  Utah Phillips

  Teaching, Kids, Educator

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• I wish that we worried more about asking the right questions instead of being so hung up on finding answers.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Wish, Asking, Answers

  Twitter post from Aug 03, 2012

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Data is the new science. Big Data holds the answers. Are you asking the right questions?

  Patrick P. Gelsinger

  Data Collection, Asking, Answers

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• Part of the role of a thought leader is not to necessarily have all the answers - I certainly don't - but it's to be able to ask the right questions and the privilege of being able to lead the conversation.

  Michael Hyatt

  Leader, Roles, Answers

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• It's not enough to have the right answers. You have to have the right questions.

  Tim Ferriss

  Answers, Enough, Right Answers

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• Daymark asks the right question. So we get it right the first time. We didn't want to overbuy or underbuy. They understood our business and our data. Daymark knew exactly which models we should order - not too much, not too little.

  Mike Michaud

  Data, Order, Want

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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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• In the old economy, it was all about having the answers. But in today’s dynamic, lean economy, it’s more about asking the right questions. A More Beautiful Question is about figuring out how to ask, and answer, the questions that can lead to new opportunities and growth.

  Eric Ries

  Beautiful, Opportunity, Growth

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