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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.

  Francis Bacon

  Wisdom, Educational, Creativity

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• When the wrong question is being asked, it usually turns out to be because the right question is too difficult. Scientists ask questions they can answer. That is, it is often the case that the operations of a science are not a consequence of the problematic of that science, but that the problematic is induced by the available means.

  Richard Lewontin

  Mean, Answers, Scientist

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

  Mark Cuban

  Broke, Wealthy

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

  Plato

  Important, Answers, Right Answers

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• but you can't spend your whole life hoping people will ask you the right questions. you must learn to love and answer the questions they already ask.

  Elizabeth McCracken

  People, Answers, Whole Life

  Elizabeth McCracken (2013). “The Giant's House”, p.85, Random House

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• An almost indispensable skill for any creative person is the ability to pose the right questions. Creative people identify promising, exciting, and, most important, accessible routes to progress - and eventually formulate the questions correctly.

  Lisa Randall

  Skills, People, Creative

  "Mozart, Newton and You?" by Lisa Randall, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 5, 2012.

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• 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

  Taken, Loss, Finals

  Julia Cameron (2002). “The Artist's Way: 25th Anniversary Edition”, p.179, Penguin

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• It is the function of a liberal university not to give right answers, but to ask right questions.

  Cynthia Ozick

  Giving, Justice, Diversity

  Cynthia Ozick (1983). “Art & ardor: essays”, Alfred A. Knopf

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