The right question is usually more important than the right answer. — Plato
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
The answers are all out there, we just need to ask the right questions. — Oscar Wilde
To ask the right question is already half the solution of a problem. — Carl Jung
If you don't ask the right questions, I can't give you the answers, and if you don't know the right question to ask, you're not ready for the answers — Ed Parker
To ask the proper question is half of knowing. — Roger Bacon
Find the right questions. You don't invent the answers, you reveal the answers. — Jonas Salk
Asking good questions is half of learning. — Elijah Muhammad
To ask the right question is harder than to answer it. — Georg Cantor
Every good educator knows that true teaching is to teach kids how to ask the right questions. — Utah Phillips
The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions. — Claude Levi-Strauss
Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers. — Tony Robbins
An expert is not someone who gives you the answer, it is someone who asks you the right question. — Eliyahu M. Goldratt
The answers you get depend upon the questions you ask. — Thomas Kuhn
Ask really great, high-quality questions that illicit an explicit response. — Corey Wayne
Short Asking The Right Questions Quotes
Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers. — Josef Albers
If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers. — Thomas Pynchon
The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he is one who asks the right questions. — Claude LeviStrauss
If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers. — Thomas Pynchon
The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself. — Ursula K. Le Guin
Good questions outrank easy answers. — Paul A. Samuelson
Thinking begins when you ask really difficult questions. — Slavoj Žižek
A major stimulant to creative thinking is focused questions. — Brian Tracy
The ability to ask questions is the greatest resource in learning the truth. — Carl Jung
Asking The Right Questions Image Quotes
Before you heal someone, ask him if he's willing to give up the things that made him sick.
How Ask The Right Questions Quotes
Your most important task as a leader is to teach people how to think and ask the right questions so that the world doesn't go to hell if you take a day off. — Jeffrey Pfeffer
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
The secret to gaining the upper hand in a negotiation is to give the other side the illusion of control. Don't try to force your opponent to admit that you are right. Ask questions, that begin with 'How?' or 'What?' so your opponent uses mental energy to figure out the answer. — Chris Voss
Sometimes the smallest step in the right direction ends up being the biggest step of your life. Tip top if you must, but take the step.
If you do not know how to ask the right question, you discover nothing. — W. Edwards Deming
I'd asked around 10 or 15 people for suggestions. Finally one lady friend asked the right question, 'Well, what do you love most?' That's how I started painting money. — Andy Warhol
For 20 years they have asked me the same question, who is the greatest? Pele or Maradona? I replay that all you have to do is look at the facts - how many goals did he score with his right foot or with his head? — Pele
Everything that you are going through is preparing you for what you asked for.
The most horrible question students ask: 'How do you paint copper?' 'How do you paint flesh or glass?' You paint everything the same way: Right color, right value, in right spot. There are no prescriptions. — Sergei Bongart
I learned how to become wealthy because I asked the right questions when I was broke. — Mark Cuban
When it comes to spiritual truth, how can we know that we are on the right path? One way is by asking the right questions - the kind that help us ponder our progress and evaluate how things are working for us. — Dieter F. Uchtdorf
How hard would it be to ask children what they see in their heads? How big should the house be in comparison to the family standing in front of it? What is it about the anatomy of the people that doesn't look right? Then let them try it again. Teach them to learn how to see and ask questions. — Charles de Lint
Right Questions Quotes
I don't like a girl on social media, when you have an open inbox, answering questions from dudes left and right, every day. What's the point? It's like having your number all out. — Meek Mill
I became a vegetarian after realizing that animals feel afraid, cold, hungry and unhappy like we do. I feel very deeply about vegetarianism and the animal kingdom. It was my dog Boycott who led me to question the right of humans to eat other sentient beings. — Cesar Chavez
The answers to these questions will determine your success or failure. 1) Can people trust me to do what's right? 2) Am I committed to doing my best? 3) Do I care about other people and show it? If the answers to these questions are yes, there is no way you can fail. — Lou Holtz
Live your life. Take chances. Be crazy. Don't wait. Because right now is the oldest you've ever been and the youngest you'll ever be again.
We don't have a right to ask whether we're going to succeed or not. The only question we have a right to ask is what's the right thing to do? What does this earth require of us if we want to continue to live on it? — Wendell Berry
To consider judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions is a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one which would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy. — Thomas Jefferson
The key question to keep asking is, Are you spending your time on the right things? Because time is all you have. — Randy Pausch
Beautiful things don't ask for attention.
The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war. — James Madison
The way to develop decisiveness is to start right where you are, with the very next question you face. — Napoleon Hill
Individuals have rights and there are things no person or group may do to them (without violating their rights). So strong and far-reaching are these rights that they raise the question of what, if anything, the state and its officials may do. How much room do individual rights leave for the state? — Robert Nozick
One right question asked at the right time can change the direction of our intelligence, and thus change the direction of our life. — Mahatria Ra
Whenever you are about to find fault with someone, ask yourself the following question: What fault of mine most nearly resembles the one I am about to criticize? — Marcus Aurelius
For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now? — James Allen
Ask yourself if what you're doing today is getting you closer to where you want to be tomorrow.
You have to ask yourself the question 'Who am I?' This investigation will lead in the end to the discovery of something within you which is behind the mind. Solve that great problem and you will solve all other problems. — Ramana Maharshi
My challenge is, do not run away from the hard questions. Truly ask yourself what's worth living for in this life. — Jon Foreman
The questions you ask yourself will determine the course of your life. — Tom Bilyeu
Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.
To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself: First, what could I do? Second, what could I read? And third, who could I ask? — Jim Rohn
Asking yourself deeper questions opens up new ways of being in the world. It brings in a breath of fresh air. It makes life more joyful. The real trick to life is not to be in the know, but to be in the mystery. — Fred Alan Wolf
Pause now to ask yourself the following question: 'Am I dreaming or awake, right now?' Be serious, really try to answer the question to the best of your ability and be ready to justify your answer. — Stephen LaBerge
Asking Questions Quotes
The man who asks a question is a fool for a minute, the man who does not ask is a fool for life. — Confucius
In my early professional years I was asking the question: How can I treat, or cure, or change this person? Now I would phrase the question in this way: How can I provide a relationship which this person may use for his own personal growth? — Carl Rogers
Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new. — Og Mandino
If things go wrong, don’t go with them.
We should ask ourselves three questions before we speak: Is it true? Is it kind? Does it glorify Christ? — Billy Graham
He who asks a question is a fool for a minute; he who does not remains a fool forever.
When you realize that by changing your perspective, big things can be seen as little things, it becomes much harder to worry about anything. Commitment is an act, not a word. — Jean-Paul Sartre
Don't spend your precious time asking "Why isn't the world a better place?" It will only be time wasted. The question to ask is "How can I make it better?" To that there is an answer. — Leo Buscaglia
Do what you feel in your heart to be right, for you’ll be criticized anyways.
So now the perception is, yes, women are here to stay. And when I'm sometimes asked when will there be enough [women on the Supreme Court]? And I say when there are nine, people are shocked. But there'd been nine men, and nobody's ever raised a question about that. — Ruth Bader Ginsburg
You know, the ancient Egyptians had a beautiful belief about death. When their souls got to the entrance to heaven, the guards asked two questions. Their answers determined whether they were able to enter or not. 'Have you found joy in your life?' 'Has your life brought joy to others?' — Morgan Freeman
We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers. — Abraham Joshua Heschel
When I meet God, I am going to ask him two questions: Why relativity ? And why turbulence ? I really believe he will have an answer for the first. — Werner Heisenberg
Good Questions Quotes
I love you because I love you, because it would be impossible not to love you. I love you without question, without calculation, without reason good or bad, faithfully, with all my heart and soul, and every faculty. — Juliette Drouet
You need music, I don't know why. It's probably one of those Joe Campbell questions, why we need ritual. We need magic, and bliss, and power, myth, and celebration and religion in our lives, and music is a good way to encapsulate a lot of it. — Jerry Garcia
You have this one life. How do you wanna spend it? Apologizing? Regretting? Questioning? Hating yourself? Dieting? Running after people who don't see you? Be brave. Believe in yourself. Do what feels good. Take risks. You have this one life. Make yourself proud. — Cara Delevingne
Stop being afraid of what could go wrong, and start being excited of what could go right.
Any woman can look her best if she feels good in her skin. It's not a question of clothes or makeup. It's how she sparkles. — Sophia Loren
There are six stages to knowledge: Firstly: Asking questions in a good manner. Secondly: Remaining quiet and listening attentively. Thirdly: Understanding well. Fourthly: Memorising. Fifthly: Teaching. Sixthly- and it is its fruit: Acting upon the knowledge and keeping to its limits. — Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya
In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened. — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Knowledge is having the right answer. Intelligence is asking the right questions.
Where conflicting interests must be reconciled, the question shall always be answered from the standpoint of the greatest good of the greatest number in the long run. — Gifford Pinchot
You don't get to advertise all the good that your religion does without first scrupulously subtracting all the harm it does and considering seriously the question of whether some other religion, or no religion at all, does better. — Daniel Dennett
Making a living and having a life are not the same thing. Making a living and making a life that's worthwhile are not the same thing. Living the good life and living a good life are not the same thing. A job title doesn't even come close to answering the question. "What do you do?". — Robert Fulghum
Journalists are accused of being lapdogs when they don't ask the hard questions, but then accused of being rude when they do. Good thing we have tough hides. — Gwen Ifill
People have the right to ask questions and dig deep when you're hurting people and things around you, but when I haven't talked to anyone in years, and every single article I see is dope this, junkie that, whiskey this- that ain't my title...my bad habits aren't my title. My strengths and talents are my title. — Layne Staley
As long as you ask questions you are breaking through, but the moment you begin to accept, you are psychologically dead. So right through life don't accept a thing, but inquire, investigate. Then you will find that your mind is something really extraordinary, it has no end, and to such a mind there is no death. — Jiddu Krishnamurti
Chinese involvement is an attractive proposition for many African governments. Beijing and the big Chinese companies don't ask difficult questions about human rights, and they don't demand economic reform or even suggest that certain African leaders stop stealing their countries' wealth, as the IMF or World Bank might. For example, China is Sudan's biggest trading partner, which goes some way to explaining why China constantly protects Sudan at the UN Security Council and continued to back its president even when there was an arrest warrant issued for him by the International Criminal Court. — Tim Marshall
My public life is before you; and I know you will believe me when I say, that when I sit down in solitude to the labours of my profession, the only questions I ask myself are, What is right? What is just? What is for the public good? — Joseph Howe
Whether there are innately female leadership styles... is not really the right question. It is more important to ask why there has been so little attention paid to women leaders over the years as well as why the styles of leading more often exhibited by women are particularly useful at this critical moment in history. — Charlotte Bunch
When things get too complicated, it sometimes makes sense to stop and wonder: Have I asked the right question? — Enrico Bombieri
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
To ask the 'right' question is far more important than to receive the answer. The solution of a problem lies in the understanding of the problem; the answer is not outside the problem, it is in the problem. — Jiddu Krishnamurti
I cannot expect even my own art to provide all of the answers, only to hope it keeps asking the right questions. — Grace Hartigan
Solutions come through evolution. They come through asking the right questions, because the answers pre-exist. It is the questions that we must define and discover. You don't invent the answer-you reveal the answer. — Jonas Salk
Questions are places in your mind where answers fit. If you haven't asked the question, the answer has nowhere to go. It hits your mind and bounces right off. You have to ask the question - you have to want to know - in order to open up the space for the answer to fit. — Clayton Christensen
Do what's right! Do the best you can and treat others the way you want to be treated because they will ask three questions: (1) Can I trust you? (2) Are you committed? (3) Do you care about me as a person? — Lou Holtz
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
In school, we're rewarded for having the answer, not for asking a good question. — Richard Saul Wurman
Only the inquiring mind solves problems. — Edward Hodnett
I always had an existential crisis, trying to figure out ‘what does it all mean?’ I came to the conclusion that if we can advance the knowledge of the world, if we can expand the scope and scale of consciousness, then, we’re better able to ask the right questions and become more enlightened. That’s the only way to move forward. — Elon Musk
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
Our job is not to answer questions, its to ask the right questions...that get us to the right answer. — Bill Buxton
To gain knowledge, we must learn to ask the right questions; and to get answers, we must act, not wait for answers to occur to us. — Anatol Rapoport
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
Someone has to ask you a question," George continues meaningly, "before you can answer it. But it's so seldom you find anyone who'll ask the right questions. Most people aren't that much interested. — Christopher Isherwood
Asking the right questions takes as much skill as giving the right answers. — Robert Half
Review our priorities, ask the question; What's the best use of our time right now? — Alan Lakein
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
All of life is iterative. It goes back to the point I made earlier, which is you can't a priori know enough to even ask the right questions. — Grady Booch
Data is the new science. Big Data holds the answers. Are you asking the right questions? — Patrick P. Gelsinger
An expert knows all the answers -- if you ask the right questions. — Unknown
The wrong question to ask of a myth is whether it is true or false. The right question is whether it is living or dead, whether it still speaks to our condition. — Richard Holloway
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
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