Motivational Quotes

Questions

Why ask why? If it's raining it just is.

- Horton, Doug

Best Quotes about Questions

... 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?

Bower, Jim

I am prejudiced in favor of him who, without impudence, can ask boldly. He has faith in humanity, and faith in himself. No one who is not accustomed to giving grandly can ask nobly and with boldness.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing.

Motto, Engineer's

Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

It's better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.

Thurber, James

To find the exact answer, one must first ask the exact question.

Webster, S. Tobin

A timid question will always receive a confident answer.

Darling, Lord

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?

Heschel, Abraham J.

He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.

Voltaire

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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.

Hodnett, Edward

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If you want a wise answer, ask a reasonable question.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Stein, Leo

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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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We should not only master questions, but also act upon them, and act definitely.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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.

Jefferson, Thomas

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The question to everyone's answer is usually asked from within.

Miller, Steve

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

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I learned very early in my life in Whitehall, the acid test of any political question is; What is the Alternative?

Trent, Lord

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Quality questions create a quality life. Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Every clarification breeds new questions.

Bloch, Arthur

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

Jay, Anthony

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Why ask why? If it's raining it just is.

Horton, Doug

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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]

Shakespeare, William

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Judge a person by their questions, rather than their answers.

Voltaire

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

Decouvertes

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

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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?

Connolly, Charles

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Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much.

Bacon, Francis

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A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

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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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No question is so difficult to answer as that which the answer is obvious.

Shaw, George Bernard