Quotes About Right Questions

#1. It seems to me that so much unhappiness in life comes not from a lack of answers, but from a lack of knowing the right questions to ask.

Rita Zoey Chin

#2. He had a talent for asking exactly the right questions to lead me to my own answers. Just being near him made things clearer.

K.D. Sarge

#3. Faith doesn't run deep because one is stuffed with right answers. It is cultivated by asking the right questions.

Josh Ross

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

Claude Levi-Strauss

#5. I have a solo deal with Columbia Records. So it's about, do I want to release an album, when can we do it, what kind of album should it be, how should it be released and marketed and what's the right timing? Do I have time to do it? It's all about questions.

Cory Monteith

#6. A coach is someone skilled at unlocking your ideas with the right questions. A good coach knows that the answer to everything you need is within you.

Farshad Asl

#7. 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

#8. Our job is not to answer questions, its to ask the right questions ... that get us to the right answer.

Bill Buxton

#9. Ask the right questions, and the answers will always reveal themselves

Oprah Winfrey

#10. It began with your eyes cast down, and mine looking right at you,
I watched you rule out hundreds of questions and accept only mine. I poured my stories into your eager heart, and you sparked faith inside the stubbornness of mine. Our beginning was written in the stars - how could it not be?

Emalynne Wilder

#11. All these questions about do you want to be king? It's not a question of wanting to be, it's something I was born into and it's my duty ... Wanting is not the right word. But those stories about me not wanting to be king are all wrong.

Prince William

#12. This was what it was about. The feeling as if your heart beat right out of your chest and into theirs. Like you couldn't take another breath without the,. As if everything inside united and there were no questions. No uncertainties.

Nashoda Rose

#13. There must be right and wrong answers to questions of morality and values that potentially fall within the purview of science. On this view, some people and cultures will be right (to a greater or lesser degree), and some will be wrong, with respect to what they deem important in life.

Sam Harris

#14. The outcome of a still veracitless life. Am I livin' it right?

John Mayer

#15. Common Core reminds us what testing can do right. Modeled on standards of the world's education superpowers, questions demand critical thinking and creativity. Students are asked to write at length, show their work, and explain their reasoning.

Wendy Kopp

#16. The secrets of the universe aren't really secrets. It's just that humanity is too subjugated by their blissful ignorance to ask the right questions. When you have all of the answers, but are unable to ask any questions to them, then all you have are secrets.

Lionel Suggs

#17. Someone has to ask you a question," George continues meaningly, "before you can answer it. But it's so seldom you find anyone who'll ask the right questions. Most people aren't that much interested ...

Christopher Isherwood

#18. There are times when a data set is so robust that if you set up your analysis right, you don't need to ask it questions--it just tells you everything anyway.

Christian Rudder

#19. He who, in questions of right, virtue, or duty, sets himself above all ridicule, is truly great, and shall laugh in the end with truer mirth than ever he was laughed at.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

#20. When someone does
The wrong thing
Observe them as truth
Questions their actions ...
Those whom carry a selfish
Persona will never own their truthful faults,
But the one's of light will fight
To make their wrongs; right.

Nikki Rowe

#21. Beethoven was a deeply political man in the broadest sense of the word. He was not interested in daily politics, but concerned with questions of moral behaviour and the larger questions of right and wrong affecting the entire society.

Daniel Barenboim

#22. I like BuzzFeed, and I understand the pressure that online reporters are under. But I think everyone agrees that, despite all the awesome kitten gifs, they're still obligated to be skeptical of government officials and ask the right questions.

Michael Moore

#23. If you know you are right, stay the course even though the whole world seems to be against you and everyone you know questions your judgment. When you prevail
and you eventually will if you stick to the job
they will all tell you that they knew all along you could do it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#24. First things, first frame the right questions before answering them, ensure doing the right things before doing things right.

Pearl Zhu

#25. Asking a question simply implies that you already know the answer. However, the question that you are asking may simply be an illusion. The beauty of the answer truly blooms, when you ask the right question.

Lionel Suggs

#26. To gain knowledge, we must learn to ask the right questions; and to get answers, we must act, not wait for answers to occur to us.

Anatol Rapoport

#27. Questions of natural right are triable by their conformity with the moral sense and reason of man.

Thomas Jefferson

#28. You look at the whole Human Rights questions, I happened to be there at just the right time when the country was awakening - this goes to the first question you asked - the whole country was awakening to a hundred years of injustice that hadn't been resolved yet.

Birch Bayh

#29. Humans, I was discovering, believed they were in control of their own lives, and so they were in awe of questions and tests, as these made them feel like they had a certain mastery over other people, who had failed in their choices, and who had not worked hard enough on the right answers.

Matt Haig

#30. Stop, look, investigate, ask the right questions, come to the right conclusions and have the courage to act on them and see what happens. The first steps may bring the roof down on your head, but soon the commotion will clear and there will be peace and joy.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#31. People like answering questions about themselves, she thought; what an odd pleasure it is. I would answer anything right now. "What

Shirley Jackson

#32. The answers are all out there, we just need to ask the right questions.

Oscar Wilde

#33. Religion gives you a sense of certainty. It makes you feel that you have the right answers to really big questions and that you've grasped the truth.

James Heckman

#34. What I'm trying to do right now is truly answer my most deepest most unarticulated questions for myself through my writing in some form.

Karan Bajaj

#35. Ultimately, we are seeking a better understanding of what is means to be human. In this quest, progress is not made by finding the "right" answers, but by asking meaningful questions.

Terry Winograd

#36. Tomorrow, America's most famous hockey mom, Sarah Palin, will drop the ceremonial first puck at the Philadelphia Flyers game. Right afterwards, she'll get out on the ice and skate around reporters' questions, so it should be interesting.

Jay Leno

#37. I cannot expect even my own art to provide all of the answers, only to hope it keeps asking the right questions.

Grace Hartigan

#38. The right answer is seldom as important as the right question.

Kip Thorne

#39. Some questions are not meant to be asked as long as the answers are right.

Judith Krantz

#40. My public life is before you; and I know you will believe me when I say, that when I sit down in solitude to the labours of my profession, the only questions I ask myself are, What is right? What is just? What is for the public good?

Joseph Howe

#41. The right path is the one where you feel happy within yourself, at ease within yourself. When there is peace and harmony within, these questions lose their meaning. (Songs of the Mist - Page 95)

Shashi

#42. 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

#43. Customers expect salespeople to stimulate the sales process, to ask the right questions and finally to ask for their business. When this initiative or confidence is lacking, no matter how much they like you personally, they aren't going to respect or value you as a business partner.

Ann-Marie Heidingsfelder

#44. And after Salinas, as we have seen, that means that you cannot simply remain mute in the face of police questioning, but rather must say something to invoke your legal right to refuse to answer their questions. Second,

James Duane

#45. Some questions had no right answers, only shades of wrong, and people couldn't live in black-and-white. Sometimes there were pops of glorious color, and on other occasions, gray was the only visible hue.

Ann Aguirre

#46. The scientific mind does not so much provide the right answers as ask the right questions.

Claude Levi-Strauss

#47. All right. Normal rules apply."
"Right."
The man walked off, leaving us.
"What are the normal rules?" I asked.
"He walks away and has a tea break and doesn't ask any questions.

Maureen Johnson

#48. May we be the kind of good faith Christians who shape the future by asking the right questions and then confronting what is wrong, clarifying what is confused, celebrating what is good, and creating what the world is missing.

David Kinnaman

#49. Today Google celebrated its 13th anniversary ... That's right, Google turned 13 years old. Which explains why today when I searched for something, Google was just like, I don't know. Stop asking me questions! I'm going upstairs.

Jimmy Fallon

#50. You could hear, in the questions they asked and how they asked them, that there were right answers, things they wanted to hear.

John Darnielle

#51. When things went right, it was generally because the woman had cleverly manipulated the guy into good dating behavior. He'd call when he said he would. Put some thought into dates. He'd ask questions about her life because she didn't vomit up all her personal history in the first ten minutes.

Kristan Higgins

#52. The great majority of women are more intelligent, better educated, and far more moral than multitudes of men whose right to vote no man questions.

Lucy Stone

#53. I don't think you'll ever replace human judgment and human inspiration and creativity because, at the end of the day, you need to be asking questions like, O.K., the system says this. Is this really what we want to do? Is that the right thing?

Laszlo Bock

#54. One finds oneself saying: 'I know the right question, but ... this is not exactly the right time to ask it.'

Dan Rather

#55. I have an incredible confidence in the resilience of the human spirit and the creative ability of the Holy Spirit. So, if you can get people asking the right questions, it really will start moving in the right direction.

Erwin McManus

#56. When you get your,'Who am I?', question right, all of your,'What should I do?' questions tend to take care of themselves

Richard Rohr

#57. There are two different questions: Do you want to die? and Do you want to live? But in the darkness of my mind, not wanting to live and wanting to die don't seem like two things you can pull apart. They're wrapped up in the no more that I feel right now.

Francisco X Stork

#58. Paul," he said, "do you think my life has meaning? Did I make the right choices?"

It was stunning: even someone I considered a moral examplar had these questions in the face of mortality.

Paul Kalanithi

#59. To truly live without regrets, pay attention. Ask yourself hard questions and see where they lead. Do I really want this job? Is this relationship right for me? If I could do anything, would it be what I'm doing today ... or something different?

Chris Guillebeau

#60. Crackling Rosie make me smile. God, if it lasts for an hour that's alright, to set the world right. Find us a dream that don't ask no questions.

Neil Diamond

#61. Don't ask me any questions right now. I'm grumpy and I'll probablly make fun of you.
-Effie Kaligaris

Ann Brashares

#62. The art of clinical diagnosis lies in the ability to ask the right questions.

Harriet B. Braiker

#63. We do not ask the right questions when we are young, so we miss the important answers. Now it is too late to ask, too late for the illuminating answers, and the unanswered questions haunt us for a lifetime.

Peter Abrahams

#64. You don't ask any questions. You don't get any answers. You don't stray from the path. You don't even think about what's happening to you right now. Got it?

Neil Gaiman

#65. We all want to live forever, but we don't want to suck blood to do it, right? I think people like to have these deep moral questions that don't come up in real life.

Melissa De La Cruz

#66. 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

#67. Which one is right? Which one is wrong? When you feel you could answer that type of questions, you trapped on your own perception.
-Back cover, Andante Part 1, English modified-

Ida R. Yulia

#68. I wish that we worried more about asking the right questions instead of being so hung up on finding answers.

Madeleine L'Engle

#69. If anything, if you can get somebody interested in something and get them excited, that's great. You should be praised for having opened the debate and having asked the right questions.

Oliver Stone

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

Levi-Strauss

#71. I only know everything if you ask the right questions.

Doc Coleman

#72. Every good educator knows that true teaching is to teach kids how to ask the right questions.

Utah Phillips

#73. I've followed Brenda Bowen as she's moved from Henry Holt to Scholastic to Simon and Schuster to Hyperion and to HarperCollins. I have complete confidence that Brenda always knows the right questions to ask. I'm not sure another editor would be able to do that.

Virginia Euwer Wolff

#74. The problem is there are no simple "right" answers for most Web design questions (at least not for the important ones). What works is good, integrated design that fills a need - carefully thought out, well executed, and tested.

Steve Krug

#75. In the new world of sales, being able to ask the right questions is more valuable than producing the right answers. Unfortunately, our schools often have the opposite emphasis. They teach us how to answer, but not how to ask.

Daniel H. Pink

#76. How do we attack important problems? Pose the right question.

Donald Sadoway

#77. I don't know you, not because I didn't ask the right questions, but because you never trusted me enough to let me in. You're right about me, I want more. I want all of you.

Sarah Grimm

#78. The only "right" answer is one that can be questioned.

Dean Cavanagh

#79. The Pertinent Question is NOT how to do things right - but how to find the right things to do, and to concentrate resources and efforts on them.

Peter Drucker

#80. Questions are places in your mind where answers fit. If you haven't asked the question, the answer has nowhere to go. It hits your mind and bounces right off. You have to ask the question - you have to want to know - in order to open up the space for the answer to fit.

Clayton Christensen

#81. I think, with any new product that's difficult to understand, there are always lots of questions and criticism. I think we have all the right criticism. We're just going to keep executing on what we believe.

Evan Spiegel

#82. The first ingredient to being wrong is to claim that you are right. Geniuses have a knack for raising new questions. Hence by the public they are either admired for their creativity or, even more commonly so, detested for disturbing the daily peace of mind.

Criss Jami

#83. Conscience is the reason employed about questions of right and wrong.

William Whewell

#84. 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

#85. I can't really tell how old I am, only that I'm too young to wonder if I asked the right questions in the past, and too old to wish the future will bring me all the answers.

Gabriel Ba

#86. Here are the three great questions which in life we have over and over again to answer: Is it right or wrong? Is it true or false? Is it beautiful or ugly? Our education ought to help us to answer these questions.

John Lubbock

#87. 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

#88. Given a test question, every wrong answer you eliminate from options A - E increases your chances of getting the right answer by 20percent.
The more you identify what you should not be doing, the closer you get to the things you should do.

Olaotan Fawehinmi

#89. 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

#90. There is always a right answer for every question, even for the wrong ones.

M.F. Moonzajer

#91. 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

#92. Do what's right. Be on time, be polite, and be honest; remain free from drugs; and if you have any questions, get out your Bible. 2. Do your best. Mediocrity is unacceptable when you are capable of doing better. 3. Treat others as you want to be treated. Practice love and understanding.

Lou Holtz

#93. Most students don't trust their own insights and questions when they are reading a biblical assignment. They expect that there must be a point, a right reading that they're missing, and that they don't have the authority to suggest any other interpretation.

Timothy Beal

#94. I don't think we've asked the right questions, the tough questions, at the right time, in Washington.

Jorge Ramos

#95. I wish there were easy answers to people's health questions. There aren't. There are answers, all right, but they are not easy.

Andrew Saul

#96. He could solve this, Vimes told himself. Everything he needed was there, if only he asked the right questions and thought the right way. But

Terry Pratchett

#97. Knowing the right questions is better than knowing all the right answers Caleb from Pretty Little Liars (TV Show)

Sara Shepard

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

Vanessa Redgrave

#99. Do what's right! Do the best you can and treat others the way you want to be treated because they will ask three questions: (1) Can I trust you? (2) Are you committed? (3) Do you care about me as a person?

Lou Holtz

#100. Asking the right questions takes as much skill as giving the right answers.

Robert Half