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A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
~ Francis Bacon ~
Every clarification breeds new questions.
~ Arthur Bloch ~
... I believe the best test of a model is how well can the modeler answer the questions what do you know now that you did not know before? and how can you find out if it is true?
~ Jim Bower ~
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 fund doing it?
~ Charles Connolly ~
A timid question will always receive a confident answer.
~ Lord Darling ~
It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.
~ Decouvertes ~
The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.
~ E. W. Dijkstra ~
If you do not ask the right questions, you do not get the right answers. A question asked in the right way often points to its own answer. Asking questions is the A-B-C of diagnosis. Only the inquiring mind solves problems.
~ Edward Hodnett ~
The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions.
~ Anthony Jay ~
Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear.
~ Thomas Jefferson ~
You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
~ Naguib Mahfouz ~
The question to everyone's answer is usually asked from within.
~ Steve Miller ~
Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing.
~ Engineer's Motto ~
It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.
~ Thomas Paine ~
Quality questions create a quality life. Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers.
~ Anthony Robbins ~
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 ~
No question is so difficult to answer as that which the answer is obvious.
~ George Bernard Shaw ~
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 ~
No man really becomes a fool until he stops asking questions.
~ Charles Steinmetz ~
I learned very early in my life in Whitehall, the acid test of any political question is; What is the Alternative?
~ Lord Trent ~
An expert knows all the answers -- if you ask the right questions.
~ Source Unknown ~
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.
~ Source Unknown ~
He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.
~ Voltaire ~
To find the exact answer, one must first ask the exact question.
~ S. Tobin Webster ~
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