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. 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

#6. 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

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

Bill Buxton

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

Oprah Winfrey

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. 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

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

Pearl Zhu

#13. 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

#14. 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

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Grace Hartigan

#17. 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

#18. 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

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

Claude Levi-Strauss

#20. 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

#21. 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

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

Harriet B. Braiker

#23. 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

#24. 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

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

Madeleine L'Engle

#26. 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

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

Levi-Strauss

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

Doc Coleman

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

Utah Phillips

#30. 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

#31. 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

#32. 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

#33. 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

#34. 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

#35. 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

#36. 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

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

Jorge Ramos

#38. 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

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

Sara Shepard

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

Vanessa Redgrave

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

Robert Half

#42. Asking the right questions is as important as answering them

Benoit Mandelbrot

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

Tim Ferriss

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

Claude Levi-Strauss

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

Josef Albers

#46. 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

#47. A doctor who is interested in sex can advise patients. I became a better doctor by my late private sexual revolution. I ask the right questions in an easy non intrusive way, giving them option not to talk about or talk about it- their choice. They often start talking.

Lucie Novak

#48. 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

#49. She had found there were very few genuinely dull people; the trick was to ask them the right questions.

Kate Morton

#50. By the time we began to understand enough about what the world to ask the right questions, our visit is over, and someone else is visiting, asking the same questions.

D.K. LeVick

#51. 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

#52. He had won it as a child, playing Scriptural Jeopardy in his Sunday-school class. When faced with answers from the Bible, Ig had all the right questions.

Joe Hill

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

Bruce Nauman

#54. I can be a good listener. I can ask the right questions a lot of the time.

Lisa Randall

#55. 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

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

Vanessa Redgrave

#57. Is it not more helpful and productive to ask the right questions then to give the right answers?

Michael Hetherington

#58. If we ask the right questions, we can change the world with the right answers.

Ogwo David Emenike

#59. 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

#60. 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

#61. In a way, I think religion is to be admired for asking the right questions. I just think it's got the wrong answers.

Richard Dawkins

#62. 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

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

Rick Warren

#64. But an attentive researcher
like you
might be able to see something that all the experts can't see. If she asks the right questions.

Katherine Howe

#65. 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

#66. I have great editors, and I always have. Somehow, great editors ask the right questions or pose things to you that get you to write better. It's a dance between you, your characters, and your editor.

Patricia MacLachlan

#67. You know, the truth isn't hard to find, if you're willing to get your hands dirty. Truth waits just under the surface for any man brave enough to scrape a little dirt away. But most people are too afraid or too lazy to get dirty. They're afraid to ask the right questions. The hard questions.

Greg Iles

#68. Death is either an incredible ending to a story or, more often than not if you ask the right questions, it's the beginning of a story.

Alex Graves

#69. Find the right questions. You don't invent the answers, you reveal the answers.

Jonas Salk

#70. Data is the new science. Big Data holds the answers. Are you asking the right questions?

Patrick P. Gelsinger

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

Cynthia Ozick

#72. The function of the artist in a disturbed society is to give awareness of the universe, to ask the right questions, and to elevate the mind.

Marina Abramovic

#73. 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

#74. The most successful scientists in the history of the world are those who posed the right questions

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#75. Obama will win. We will win. Then we will continue to lose. And the right questions will never be honestly asked or answered, and it's all just too much.

Kiese Laymon

#76. It's better to ask the right questions than accept the status quo

Phil Harding

#77. When people seem angry, sometimes they are simply upset and hurting. Asking the right questions helps them to work through it.

Sam Owen

#78. One of the worst parts about someone dying is thinking back to all those times you didn't ask the right questions, all those times you stupidly assumed you'd have all the time in the world. And this too: how all that time feels like not much time at all.

Julie Buxbaum

#79. I pray to the God within me that He will give me the strength to ask Him the right questions.

Elie Wiesel

#80. More than one skillful physician has said that if one asks the right questions, the patient will make the diagnosis for you in his or her own words.

Andrew Weil

#81. It has always been my belief that if you don't ask the right questions, you won't get the right answers.

Reid A. Ashbaucher

#82. I went to Seattle as just another geek in the food chain, thinking, "Well, in my own puny little way, I'd rather be a part of history than just sit and watch it on TV." So, the fact that so many people are starting to ask the right questions and rack their brains for solutions does give me hope.

Jello Biafra

#83. God is like a search engine - He is willing to answer your requests, but you must ask Him the right questions.

R.M. ArceJaeger

#84. Coming up with the right questions was even more important than coming up with the right answers.

Vanessa Diffenbaugh

#85. That's all managing is: just coming up with the right questions and getting the right answers.

Jack Welch

#86. We tend to think of the Bible as a book of answers to our questions, and it is that. However, if we really let the text speak, we may find that God will show us that we are not even asking the right questions.

Timothy J. Keller

#87. 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

#88. The company's leadership plays a major role in framing the right questions for decision-making.

Pearl Zhu

#89. I didn't learn anything. Mostly, I got myself confused."
"Kathy, that's what learning is all about. You have to know the right questions before you can get the right answers.

Dean Hughes

#90. Trying to get to the answer before one has understood all the right questions is a prime source of error in human affairs.

Phillip E. Johnson

#91. Solutions come through evolution. They come through asking the right questions, because the answers pre-exist. It is the questions that we must define and discover. You don't invent the answer-you reveal the answer.

Jonas Salk

#92. If you think you have the answers to everything, you've not been asked the right questions

Steven Aitchison

#93. 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

#94. Physics is not about having memorized all the answers, but rather about asking the right questions. For when the right question is posed of a phenomenon, either the answer becomes clear or at least a path to further and more fruitful questioning is revealed.

James Kakalios

#95. Life has been full of evil, and if you don't start asking the right questions, the evil is going to be the end of you.

Jessica Sorensen

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

Mark Cuban

#97. I cried most days working on the first draft. The last scenes were the hardest. I had a feeling where I wanted to end - the exact note - but I couldn't see how to get there. Sarah Murphy, my editor, asked the right questions to help me. I think of 'The Bear' as a hopeful book.

Claire Cameron

#98. I'm not smart, Snicket. I don't ask the right questions and I never find the right answers.

Lemony Snicket

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

John C. Maxwell

#100. Half of science is putting forth the right questions.

Francis Bacon