„Someone has to ask you a question," George continues meaningly, "before you can answer it. But it's so seldom you find anyone who'll ask the right questions. Most people aren't that much interested….“
Christopher Isherwood
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„If you don't ask the right question, every answer seems wrong“
— Ani DiFranco musician and activist 1970
„Ancient Egyptians believed that upon death they would be asked two questions and their answers would determine whether they could continue their journey in the afterlife. The first question was, 'Did you bring joy?' The second was, 'Did you find joy?“
— Leo Buscaglia Motivational speaker, writer 1924 - 1998
„Edward, Edward," he said with a patronising smile, "there are no unanswered questions of any relevance. Every question that we need to ask has been answered fully. If you can't find the correct answer then you are obviously asking the wrong question.“
— Jasper Fforde British novelist 1961
Shades of Grey (2010), p206
„If the answer is more politicians, you are asking the wrong question.“
— John Major Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1943
Attributed to Major by Vernon Bogdanor, " Why the Lords doesn't need more politicians http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2007/02/11/do1104.xml", Sunday Telegraph, 11 February 2007
„I like talking when people ask me sensible questions. Ask me senseless questions also, but in a context, and I can have fun, I can make you laugh at my answers.“
— Shahrukh Khan Indian actor, producer and television personality 1965
„God is not running the world. (…) All happens by itself. You are asking the question and you are supplying the answer. And you know the answer when you ask the question. All is play in consciousness. All divisions are illusory. (…)“
— Nisargadatta Maharaj Indian guru 1897 - 1981
Source: "I am That." P.36.
„If my answers frighten you then you should cease asking scary questions.“
— Quentin Tarantino, Pulp Fiction: A Quentin Tarantino Screenplay
„People will continue to search for answers to universal and perplexing problems. But to find meaningful answers, one must first know what questions to ask.“
— Jacque Fresco American futurist and self-described social engineer 1916 - 2017
p. 18.
„There were a significant number of questions I had asked myself and, as you know, when you really ask yourself the questions, you give better answers than if we merely read the conventional answers.“
— Albert Messiah French physicist 1921 - 2013
Il y avait un nombre important de questions que je m'étais posées et, comme vous le savez, lorsqu'on se pose vraiment les questions, on donne de meilleures réponses que si l'on se contente de lire les réponses convenues.
explaining how he came to write his textbook on quantum mechanics, in Descente au coeur de la matière, an interview edited by [Stéphane Deligeorges, Le monde quantique, Editions du Seuil, Sciences et Avenir, 1984, 2020089084, 111]
„I wish that we worried more about asking the right questions instead of being so hung up on finding answers.“
— Madeleine L'Engle American writer 1918 - 2007
Context: I wish that we worried more about asking the right questions instead of being so hung up on finding answers. I don't need to know the difference between a children's book and an adult one; it's the questions that have come from thinking about it that are important. I wish we'd stop finding answers for everything. One of the reasons my generation has mucked up the world to such an extent is our loss of the sense of the mysterious.
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„If you look at things like Google Now also. Maybe you want to just have [a question] answered for you before you ask it.“
— Larry Page American computer scientist and Internet entrepreneur 1973
theguardian.com http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jul/07/google-founders-larry-page-sergey-brin-interview.
„There is only one question. And once you know the answer to that question there are no more to ask. That one question is the Original Question. And to that Original Question there is only one Final Answer. But between that Question and its Answer there are innumerable false answers.“
— Meher Baba Indian mystic 1894 - 1969
47 : The Question and its Answer, p. 78.
