You Asking The Wrong Questions Quotes

#1. If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers.

Thomas Pynchon

#2. Once they have you asking the wrong questions. They don't have to worry about the answers.

Thomas Pynchon

#3. There is no wrong answer. Even so, it is easy to receive wrong results, simply by asking the wrong question.

Brunonia Barry

#4. Leo," Amelia asked suspiciously, "what are you planning to do to her?" "Why do you always insist on asking questions when you know you won't like the answers?" "Because, being an optimist," she said tartly, "I always hope I'm wrong."
- Amelia & Leo

Lisa Kleypas

#5. My mother had been a grade-school teacher, and my father had an eighth-grade education.

Gordon Bell

#6. If we keep asking the wrong questions, we are just going to get better wrong answers. The solution to lack of community isn't to give up on the community.

Erwin McManus

#7. You can't get right answers if you're asking the wrong questions.

Mark Victor Hansen

#8. Should've known when I met her mama. The big, fat acorn didn't fall too far from the big, fat tree.

Johnny Shaw

#9. At the start of any program, asking questions is the most important part of the process. If you get [the customer's] requirements wrong, then you don't have a successful product.

Joe Sutter

#10. The rational scrutiny of religious faith involves asking believers only two questions: How do you know that? What makes you so sure that the claims of your faith are right and the claims of other faiths are wrong?

Jerry A. Coyne

#11. Edward, Edward," he said with a patronising smile, "there are no unanswered questions of any relevance. Every question that we need to ask has been answered fully. If you can't find the correct answer then you are obviously asking the wrong question.

Jasper Fforde

#12. 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

#13. Don't bother asking God for answers about life. Most likely you're asking the wrong questions.

Josh Kilmer-Purcell

#14. I believe in gradual experimentation with running shoes.

Bill Rodgers

#15. When you find the sort of people who will show up to give you a ride exactly when they've promised to do so, hold on to them for dear life.

Lemony Snicket

#16. The decision to give ourselves to others is a daily taking up of the cross.

Charles R. Swindoll

#17. 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

#18. If collapse is anything, it is a planetary immersion in the maelstrom of
paradox. Unless we understand and honor paradox, we will end up, like all of
the mainstream media on earth, asking all of the wrong questions.

Carolyn Baker

#19. Good science is done by being curious in general, by asking questions all around, by acknowledging the likelihood of being wrong and taking this in good humor for granted, by having a deep fondness for nature, and by being made jumpy and nervous by ignorance.

Lewis Thomas

#20. In an honest effort to gain understanding, asking questions do not, necessarily, imply a conclusion has been determined. They can be used to avoid making the wrong judgement. If building trust is the ultimate goal - there is no need to be defensive, or feel threatened by any inquiry.

T.F. Hodge