Quotes on Asking The Right Questions

Most people believe that great leaders are distinguished by their ability to give compelling answers. This profound book shatters that assumption, showing that the more vital skill is asking the right questions…. Berger poses many fascinating questions, including this one: What if companies had mission questions rather than mission statements? This is a book everyone ought to read—without question.

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.

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.

If you do not know how to ask the right question, you discover nothing.

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.

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

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

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.

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