Asking Questions Quotes

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

  Bernard Baruch

  Inspirational, Leadership, Teacher

  "New York Post" Newspaper, June 24, 1965.

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• Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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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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• If you don't understand, ask questions. If you're uncomfortable about asking questions, say you are uncomfortable about asking questions and then ask anyway. It's easy to tell when a question is coming from a good place. Then listen some more. Sometimes people just want to feel heard. Here's to possibilities of friendship and connection and understanding.

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  People, Understanding, Connections

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2013). “Americanah”, p.354, Anchor

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• Curiosity has its own reason for existence.

  Albert Einstein

  Learning, Science, Awe And Wonder

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.425, Princeton University Press

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• Asking questions is one of the best ways to grow as a human being.

  Michael Hyatt

  Way, Grows, Humans

  This Is Your Life Podcast, slideblast.com. December 31, 2014.

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• While many conclusions are drawn... the process of asking questions is more important than the answers... an ongoing process of discovery.

  John Paul Caponigro

  Discovery, Important, Ongoing

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• We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Thinking, Asking, Answers

  "SQ : Connecting with Our Spiritual Intelligence". Book by Danah Zohar and Ian Marshall, 2000.

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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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• The one real goal of education is to leave a person asking questions.

  Max Beerbohm

  Education, Real, Thinking

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• We hear only those questions for which we are in a position to find answers.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Answers, Hearing Loss, Position

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• No man really becomes a fool until he stops asking questions.

  Charles Proteus Steinmetz

  Life, Wisdom, Men

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• For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?

  James Allen

  Inspirational, Positive, Success

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• Kick-start your brain. New ideas come from watching something, talking to people, experimenting, asking questions and getting out of the office!

  Steve Jobs

  Talking, Ideas, People

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• I'm always asking questions - not to find 'answers,' but to see where the questions lead. Dead ends sometimes? That's fine. New directions? Interesting. Great insights? Over-ambitious. A glimpse here and there? Perfect.

  Lesley Hazleton

  Interesting, Perfect, Ambitious

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  I love being coached. I get angry when I'm not coached. I ask a lot of questions and certainly appreciate any insight and feedback. I think if you ever stop listening to coaching or stop asking questions, you probably need to be doing something else.

  Peyton Manning

  Love Is, Thinking, Appreciate

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• A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.

  Francis Bacon

  Wisdom, Educational, Creativity

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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, Mind, Asking The Right Questions

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• Good questions outrank easy answers.

  Paul Samuelson

  Nature, Environmental, Questions And Answers

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

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• Telling is not selling. Only asking questions is selling.

  Brian Tracy

  Asking, Selling

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• In order to align your life choices with your values, you will need to inquire about the effects of your actions (and inactions) on yourself and others. Although we are always stumbling upon new knowledge that shifts our choices and life direction, bringing conscious inquiry to life means that we continually ask questions that lead us to the information we need to make thoughtful decisions. Asking questions is liberating because we develop great understanding and discover more choices with our new knowledge

  Zoe Weil

  Mean, Thoughtful, Order

  Zoe Weil (2009). “Most Good, Least Harm: A Simple Principle for a Better World and Meaningful Life”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

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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, Worry

  Gravity's Rainbow episode 28 (1973)

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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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