Questions Quotes

We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

Questions focus our thinking. Ask empowering questions like: What's good about this? What's not perfect about it yet? What am I going to do next time? How can I do this and have fun doing it?

Charles Connolly

The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions.

Anthony Jay

Man who waits for roast duck to fly into mouth must wait very, very long time.

Chinese Proverb

Language was invented to ask questions. Answers may be given by grunts and gestures, but questions must be spoken. Humanness came of age when man asked the first question. Social stagnation results not from a lack of answers but from the absence of the impulse to ask questions.

Eric Hoffer

We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and by the depth of our answers.

Carl Sagan, Cosmos (page: 193),

Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.

e. e. (Edward Estlin) cummings

Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why.

Bernard Baruch

An expert knows all the answers -- if you ask the right questions.

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He who knows all the answers has not yet been asked all the questions.

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Beware of the man who knows the answer before he understands the question.

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When someone says, That's a good question. You can be sure it's a lot better than the answer you're going to get.

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The word question is derived from the Latin quarrier (to seek) which is the same root as the word for quest. A creative life is a continued quest, and good questions can be very useful guides. Most useful are open-ended questions; they allow for fresh unanticipated answers to reveal themselves.

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There are no foolish questions and no one becomes a fool until they have stopped asking questions.

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An educated man is one who has finally discovered that there are some questions to which nobody has the answer.

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Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.

Charles Caleb Colton

As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

My greatest strength as a consultant is to be ignorant and ask a few questions.

Peter Drucker

The wise man questions the wisdom of others because he questions his own, the foolish man, because it is different from his own.

Leo Stein

To be or not to be that is the question. Whether it is nobler in the mind to suffer the stings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or take up arms against a sea of troubles, and by opposing them, end them. Hamlet

William Shakespeare