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- An expert knows all the answers - if you ask the right questions.
- Author Unknown
- Man has made some machines that can answer questions provided the facts are profusely stored in them, but we will never be able to make a machine that will ask questions. The ability to ask the right question is more than half the battle of finding the answer.
- Thomas J. Watson
- The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he is one who asks the right questions.
- Claude Levi-Strauss
- A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.
- Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)
- The true law of the race is progress and development. Whatever civilization pauses in the march of conquest, it is overthrown by the barbarian.
- Simms
- The teacher pretended that algebra was a perfectly natural affair, to be taken for granted, whereas I didn't even know what numbers were. Mathematics classes became sheer terror and torture to me. I was so intimidated by my incomprehension that I did not dare to ask any questions.
- Carl Jung (1875 - 1961)
- Men of strong minds and who think for themselves, should not be discouraged on finding occasionally that some of their best ideas have been anticipated by former writers; they will neither anathematize others nor despair themselves. They will rather go on discovering things before discovered, until they are rewarded with a land hitherto unknown, an empire indisputably their own, both right of conquest and of discovery.
- C. C. Colton
- Honesty is a question of right or wrong, not a matter of policy.
- Author Unknown
- All my experience of the world teaches me that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, the safe and just side of a question is the generous and merciful side.
- Anna Jameson
- Question with boldness even the existence of God; because, if there is one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded faith.
- Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
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