Quotes on Right Questions

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

The most common source of mistakes in management decisions is the emphasis on finding the right answer rather than the right question.

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.

We hear only those questions for which we are in a position to find answers.

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.

I believe the right question to ask, respecting all ornament, is simply this; was it done with enjoyment, was the carver happy while he was about it?

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

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

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

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.

I'd asked around 10 or 15 people for suggestions. Finally one lady friend asked the right question, 'Well, what do you love most?' That's how I started painting money.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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