Right Questions Quotes:

To get the right answer, it helps to ask the right question.

- John Capozzi

topic: Answers, Helping, Right Questions, Right Answers

In my life the right question is simply this: What can I do to be happy today?

- Joshua Mohr

topic: Today, Right Questions

Half of science is putting forth the right questions.

- Francis Bacon

topic: Science, Half, Right Questions

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

- Mark Cuban

topic: Broke, Wealthy, Right Questions

You can learn from anyone if you know the right questions.

- Rick Warren

source: Twitter post from Feb 27, 2011

topic: Knows, Right Questions, Ifs

The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions.

- Claude Levi-Strauss

topic: Wise, Wisdom, Men, Essential Questions, Right Questions

There are no right answers to wrong questions.

- Ursula K. Le Guin

topic: Peace, Answers, Questions Asked, Answering Questions, Wrong Answers

What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning.

- Werner Heisenberg

source: Physics and Philosophy (1958)

topic: Science, Perception, Method, Quantum Mechanics, Experimental Science

The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he is one who asks the right questions.

- Claude Levi-Strauss

topic: Science, Technology, Giving, Good Science, Right Answers

Ask the right questions if you're going to find the right answers.

- Vanessa Redgrave

topic: Answers, Asking The Right Questions, Right Questions

And then what makes the work interesting is if you choose the right questions.

- Bruce Nauman

topic: Interesting, You Choose, Asking The Right Questions, Right Questions

We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.

- Bono

source: Song: 11 O'Clock Tick Tock

topic: Thoughtful, Perspective, Answers, Asking The Right Questions, Right Questions

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

source: Edward Hodnett (1955). “The art of problem solving: how to improve your methods”, Harper & Brothers

topic: Success, Asking Questions, Mind, Right Answers, Inquiring Minds

A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.

- Francis Bacon

topic: Wisdom, Educational, Learning, Knowledge And Wisdom, Great Wisdom

Ask the right questions, and the answers will always reveal themselves

- Oprah Winfrey

topic: Answers, Right Questions

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

topic: Real, Creativity, Imagination, Innovative Leadership, Power Of Imagination

When we have arrived at the question, the answer is already near.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Inspirational, Answers, Deep Life, Right Questions

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

topic: Thinking, Important, Asking, Asking The Right Questions, Right Questions

My older sister has entire kingdoms inside of her, and some of them are only accessible at certain seasons, in certain kinds of weather.

- Karen Russell

topic: Weather, Kingdoms, Kind, Older Sister, Summer Rain

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

topic: Mean, Answers, Scientist, Right Questions

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

topic: Answers, Facts, Problem, Asking The Right Questions, Right Questions

To ask the right question is already half the solution of a problem.

- Carl Jung

topic: Half, Problem, Solutions, Right Questions

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

topic: Beautiful, Art, Learning, Asking The Right Questions, Right Questions

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

- Plato

topic: Important, Answers, Right Answers, Right Questions

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

topic: People, Answers, Whole Life, Right Questions

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

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

topic: Skills, People, Creative, Right Questions

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

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

topic: Taken, Loss, Finals, Why Me, Right Questions

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

- Cynthia Ozick

topic: Giving, Justice, Answers, Right Questions

Your most important task as a leader is to teach people how to think and ask the right questions so that the world doesn't go to hell if you take a day off.

- Jeffrey Pfeffer

source: "Why Aren’t You Delegating?" by Amy Gallo, hbr.org. July 26, 2012.

topic: Thinking, People, Leader, Essential Questions, Right Questions

The history of science knows scores of instances where an investigator was in the possession of all the important facts for a new theory but simply failed to ask the right questions.

- Ernst Mayr

source: Ernst Mayr (1982). “The Growth of Biological Thought: Diversity, Evolution, and Inheritance”, p.29, Harvard University Press

topic: Important, Facts, Theory, Investigators, Right Questions

People often ask themselves the right questions. Where they fail is in answering the questions they ask themselves, and even there they do not fail by much...But it takes time, it takes humility and a serious reason for searching.

- William Maxwell

topic: Humility, People, Serious, Right Questions

Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers.

- Josef Albers

source: Josef Albers (2006). “Interaction of Color”, p.70, Yale University Press

topic: Inspirational, Teaching, Giving, Right Answers, Inspirational Education

The value of the security analyst to the investor depends largely on the investor's own attitude. If the investor asks the analyst the right questions, he is likely to get the right or at least valuable answers.

- Benjamin Graham

source: Benjamin Graham (1959). “The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel”

topic: Attitude, Answers, Analysts, Right Questions

I don't know where we should take this company, but I do know that if I start with the right people, ask them the right questions, and engage them in vigorous debate, we will find a way to make this company great.

- James C. Collins

topic: People, Way, Debate, Right Questions

To ask the 'right' question is far more important than to receive the answer. The solution of a problem lies in the understanding of the problem; the answer is not outside the problem, it is in the problem.

- Jiddu Krishnamurti

topic: Lying, Understanding, Important, Right Questions

a good part of the trick to being a first-rate scientist is in asking the right questions or asking them in ways that make it possible to find answers.

- Anne Roe

topic: Science, Asking, Answers, Asking The Right Questions, Right Questions

Whether there are innately female leadership styles... is not really the right question. It is more important to ask why there has been so little attention paid to women leaders over the years as well as why the styles of leading more often exhibited by women are particularly useful at this critical moment in history.

- Charlotte Bunch

topic: Years, Leader, Style, Leadership Style, Woman Leader

Which questions guide our lives? Which questions do we make our own? Which questions deserve our undivided and full personal commitment? Finding the right questions is crucial to finding the answers.

- Henri Nouwen

topic: Inspirational, Commitment, Answers, Crucial, Right Questions

In the old economy, it was all about having the answers. But in today’s dynamic, lean economy, it’s more about asking the right questions. A More Beautiful Question is about figuring out how to ask, and answer, the questions that can lead to new opportunities and growth.

- Eric Ries

topic: Beautiful, Opportunity, Growth, Asking The Right Questions, Right Questions

To ask the right question is harder than to answer it.

- Georg Cantor

topic: Math, Answers, Harder, Right Questions

I always had an existential crisis, trying to figure out ‘what does it all mean?’ I came to the conclusion that if we can advance the knowledge of the world, if we can expand the scope and scale of consciousness, then, we’re better able to ask the right questions and become more enlightened. That’s the only way to move forward.

- Elon Musk

topic: Moving, Mean, Trying, Knowledge Of The World, Existential Crisis

All of life is iterative. It goes back to the point I made earlier, which is you can't a priori know enough to even ask the right questions.

- Grady Booch

topic: Life Is, Enough, Made, Right Questions

Any leader who asks the right questions of the right people has the potential to discover and develop great ideas.

- John C. Maxwell

topic: Ideas, People, Leader, Right Questions

There's nothing like having a sympathetic reader who asks the right questions, who understands what you're trying to achieve and only wants to make it better.

- Donna Tartt

source: Interview with Michael Pietsch, www.slate.com. October 11, 2013.

topic: Trying, Want, Achieve, Right Questions

If you don't ask the right questions, I can't give you the answers, and if you don't know the right question to ask, you're not ready for the answers

- Ed Parker

topic: Giving, Answers, Ready, Right Questions

Effective management always means asking the right question.

- Robert Heller

source: Robert Heller (1984). “The supermanagers: managing for success, the movers and the doers, the reasons why”, McGraw-Hill Companies

topic: Mean, Risk, Asking, Risk Management, Asking The Right Questions

A key to improved prayer is to learn to ask the right questions. Consider changing from asking for the things you want to honestly seeking what He wants for you. Then as you learn His will, pray that you will be led to have the strength to fulfill it.

- Richard G. Scott

topic: Prayer, Keys, Asking, Right Questions

Some of my greatest role models are the young children who ask the right questions - who will sit down and share their concerns. They're not just learning from me - they're educating me. That's what drives me.

- Jerome Ringo

source: "The Pioneer". Interview with Erik Kancler, www.motherjones.com. April 25, 2005.

topic: Children, Role Models, Roles, Right Questions

Derek Bok asks the right question, 'What policies would produce the greatest happiness?' and he gives great and often startling answers, combining his deep knowledge of politics with the new findings of happiness research.

- Richard Layard, Baron Layard

topic: Giving, Answers, Research, Combining, Right Questions

It's not enough to have the right answers. You have to have the right questions.

- Tim Ferriss

topic: Answers, Enough, Right Answers, Right Questions