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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Find the right questions. You don't invent the answers, you reveal the answers.

  Jonas Salk

  Answers

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• The dog is a reflection of your energy, of your behavior. You have to ask, 'What am I doing?' That's the right question to ask.

  Cesar Millan

  Dog, Reflection, Energy

  FaceBook post by Cesar Millan from Jan 14, 2014

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• To ask the right question is already half the solution of a problem.

  Carl Jung

  Half, Problem, Solutions

  Carl Gustav Jung (1981). “The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious”, p.23, Princeton University Press

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• I learned how to become wealthy because I asked the right questions when I was broke.

  Mark Cuban

  Broke, Wealthy

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

  Plato

  Important, Answers, Right Answers

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• In a way, math isn't the art of answering mathematical questions, it is the art of asking the right questions, the questions that give you insight, the ones that lead you in interesting directions, the ones that connect with lots of other interesting questions -the ones with beautiful answers.

  Gregory Chaitin

  Beautiful, Art, Learning

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• And what I wanted to do was, I wanted to explore problems and areas where we didn't have answers. In fact, where we didn't even know the right questions to ask.

  Donald Johanson

  Facts, Asking The Right Questions, Answers

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• In a way, I think religion is to be admired for asking the right questions. I just think it's got the wrong answers.

  Richard Dawkins

  Thinking, Wrong Answers, Asking

  "Dawkins and the missionary position". Interview with John Preston, www.theage.com.au. December 23, 2006.

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• Stop, look, investigate, ask the right questions, come to the right conclusions and have the courage to act on them and see what happens. The first steps may bring the roof down on your head, but soon the commotion will clear and there will be peace and joy.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Inspiration, Practice, Meditation

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• If you do not know how to ask the right question, you discover nothing.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Quality, Asking The Right Questions, Management

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