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No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious.
Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.
You know children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers. -John Plomp.
To spell out the obvious is often to call it in question.
The question now is: Can we understand our stupidity? This is a test of intellect, not of character.
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?
A timid question will always receive a confident answer.
The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions.
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.
The question to everyone's answer is usually asked from within.
... 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?
The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.
Every clarification breeds new questions.
It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.
You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
Lookit, I've done it their way this far and now it's my turn. I'm my own handler. Any questions? Ask me... There's not going to be any more handler stories because I'm the handler... I'm Doctor Spin.
There must be no barriers for freedom of inquiry. There is no place for dogma in science. The scientist is free, and must be free to ask any question, to doubt any assertion, to seek for any evidence, to correct any errors.
Aspiration sees only one side of every question; possession, many.
Leave no question in anyone's mind as to where you stand.
From hence, no question, has sprung an observation . . . confirmed now into a settled opinion, that some long experienced souls in the world, before their dislodging, arrive to the height of prophetic spirit.
The great questions are those an intelligent child asks and, getting no answers, stops asking.
...the conviction persists - though history has shown it to be a hallucination - that all the questions that the human mind has asked are questions that can be answered in terms of the alternatives that the questions themselves present. But in fact intellectual progress usually occurs through sheer abandonment of questions together with both of the alternatives they assume - an abandonment that results from their decreasing vitality and change of urgent interest. We do not solve them: we get over them. Old questions are solved by disappearing, evaporating, while new questions corresponding to the changed attitude of endeavor and preference take their place.
The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions.
The most basic question is not what is best but who shall decide what is best.
