Answering Questions Quotes

• A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.

  Bruce Lee

  Wise, Wisdom, Stupid

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.98, Tuttle Publishing

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• It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.

  Eugene Ionesco

  Funny, Education, Teaching

  "Choosing the Future: The Power of Strategic Thinking". Book by Stuart Wells, p. 15, 1997.

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• Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.

  Voltaire

  Wisdom, Clever, Men

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  Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers.

  Tony Robbins

  Success, Tattoo, Business

  FaceBook post by Tony Robbins from Dec 28, 2014

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• Good questions outrank easy answers.

  Paul Samuelson

  Nature, Asking Questions, Environmental

  Paul Anthony Samuelson (1986). “Coll Sci Pap V5”, p.561, MIT Press

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• You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.

  Naguib Mahfouz

  Inspirational, Leadership, Wise

  FaceBook post by Naguib Mahfouz from Jul 12, 2011

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• It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.

  James Thurber

  Love, Life, Relationship

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• Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Funny, Humor, History

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• To be able to ask a question clearly is two-thirds of the way to getting it answered.

  John Ruskin

  Clever, Two, Able

  John Ruskin (1875). “Proserpina: Studies of Wayside Flowers, While the Air was Yet Pure Among the Alps, and in the Scotland and England which My Father Knew”, p.186

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  Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing.

  Euripides

  Life, Questions And Answers, Questions Asked

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• If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers.

  Thomas Pynchon

  Truth, War, Asking Questions

  Gravity's Rainbow episode 28 (1973)

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

  Antony Jay

  Inspirational, Educational, Creativity

  Antony Jay (1994). “Management and Machiavelli: discovering a new science of management in the timeless principles of statecraft”, Jossey-Bass

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• It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Questions And Answers, Want, Faces

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1965). “Who is Man?”, p.53, Stanford University Press

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• Ask an impertinent question and you are on the way to the pertinent answer.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Courage, Science, Asking Questions

  Jacob Bronowski (1976). “The ascent of man”

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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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• Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always answering questions when the chief relish of a life is to go on asking them.

  Frank Moore Colby

  Life, Clever, Intelligent

  Frank Moore Colby (1926). “The Colby essays ...”

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• I don't mind doing interviews. I don't mind answering thoughtful questions. But I'm not thrilled about answering questions like, 'If you were being mugged, and you had a lightsaber in one pocket and a whip in the other, which would you use?'

  Harrison Ford

  Thoughtful, Mind, Pockets

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, film.avclub.com. January 20, 2010.

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• Truly smart technologies will remind us that we are not mere automatons who assist big data in asking and answering questions.

  Evgeny Morozov

  Smart, Technology, Data

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• In general, questions are fine; you can always seize upon the parts of them that interest you and concentrate on answering those. And one has to remember when answering questions that asking questions isn't easy either, and for someone who's quite shy to stand up in an audience to speak takes some courage.

  Vikram Seth

  Asking Questions, Shy, Remember

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• The one thing I've discovered about social media is that people love answering questions. In fact, it sometimes feels like at any given moment, millions of people are online who have been waiting for exactly the question you fire off.

  Susan Orlean

  Fire, Media, People

  "Double-You Double-You One" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. June 2, 201.

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• You do not have to incriminate yourself. But once you assert your innocence, and once you say you didn't do anything wrong, you can't then use the Fifth Amendment to say, 'I'm not answering questions.'

  Rush Limbaugh

  Use, Fifth Amendment, Innocence

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• I've spent days in cinemas answering questions from the audience, in interviews, travelling abroad, and all they do is thank me nicely.

  George Lopez

  Cinema, Interviews, Audience

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• Getting offended is a great way to avoid answering questions that make you sound dumb.

  Tucker Max

  Dumb, Sound, Way

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• Discovery follows discovery, each both raising and answering questions, each ending a long search, and each providing the new instruments for a new search.

  J. Robert Oppenheimer

  Discovery, Long, Innovation

  J. Robert Oppenheimer (2013). “Uncommon Sense”, p.81, Springer Science & Business Media

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• When I was making a shift... from one thing to another I didn't want to be answering questions: 'How come you're doing this?' 'How come you're doing that?' so I didn't allow anyone in my studio and I just worked away in there.

  Joe Fafard

  Want, Studios, One Thing

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