Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much.
A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.
A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
Every clarification breeds new questions.
... I believe the best test of a model is how well can the modeler answer the questions what do you know now that you did not know before? and how can you find out if it is true?
For every why he had a wherefore.
Questions focus our thinking. Ask empowering questions like: What's good about this? What's not perfect about it yet? What am I going to do next time? How can I do this and have fund doing it?
Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.
A timid question will always receive a confident answer.
It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.
The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.
If you want a wise answer, ask a reasonable question.
It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?
If you do not ask the right questions, you do not get the right answers. A question asked in the right way often points to its own answer. Asking questions is the A-B-C of diagnosis. Only the inquiring mind solves problems.
Why ask why? If it's raining it just is.
The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions.
Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear.
Questioning is not the mode of conversation among gentlemen.
I am prejudiced in favor of him who, without impudence, can ask boldly. He has faith in humanity, and faith in himself. No one who is not accustomed to giving grandly can ask nobly and with boldness.
The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he is one who asks the right questions.
You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
The question to everyone's answer is usually asked from within.
Man will not live without answers to his questions.
Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing.
It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.
Quality questions create a quality life. Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers.
Questions provide the key to unlocking our unlimited potential.
By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him at all.
To be or not to be that is the question. Whether it is nobler in the mind to suffer the stings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or take up arms against a sea of troubles, and by opposing them, end them. [Hamlet]
No question is so difficult to answer as that which the answer is obvious.
The wise man questions the wisdom of others because he questions his own, the foolish man, because it is different from his own.
No man really becomes a fool until he stops asking questions.
It's better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
I learned very early in my life in Whitehall, the acid test of any political question is; What is the Alternative?
There are no foolish questions and no one becomes a fool until they have stopped asking questions.
When someone says, That's a good question. You can be sure it's a lot better than the answer you're going to get.
The word question is derived from the Latin quarrier (to seek) which is the same root as the word for quest. A creative life is a continued quest, and good questions can be very useful guides. Most useful are open-ended questions; they allow for fresh unanticipated answers to reveal themselves.
An educated man is one who has finally discovered that there are some questions to which nobody has the answer.
An expert knows all the answers -- if you ask the right questions.
Beware of the man who knows the answer before he understands the question.
He who knows all the answers has not yet been asked all the questions.
Judge a person by their questions, rather than their answers.
— Voltaire
He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.
— Voltaire
To find the exact answer, one must first ask the exact question.
We should not only master questions, but also act upon them, and act definitely.