„If you don't ask the right question, every answer seems wrong“
— Ani DiFranco musician and activist 1970
„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.“
Shades of Grey (2010), p206
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britischer Schriftsteller 1961Ähnliche Zitate
„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
Attributed
— Prevale Italian DJ and producer 1983
From the Aphorisms http://www.prevale.net/aphorisms.html page of the official website of Prevale
Original: (it) Quando si è bimbi si fanno tante domande pretendendo altrettante risposte. Quando si è adulti si evitano molte domande, per evitare inutili risposte.
„He who knows all the answers has not been asked all the questions.“
— Confucius Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher -551 - -479 v.Chr
— Meher Baba Indian mystic 1894 - 1969
47 : The Question and its Answer, p. 78.
The Everything and the Nothing (1963)
„Once they have you asking the wrong questions. They don't have to worry about the answers.“
— Thomas Pynchon, buch Die Enden der Parabel
Variante: If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers.
Quelle: Gravity's Rainbow
„The problem is that I know the textbook answers to any question you care to ask.“
— Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl
Quelle: Artemis Fowl
— 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]
— Ludwig Wittgenstein Austrian-British philosopher 1889 - 1951
6.51
1920s, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1922)
„If eval() is the answer, you're almost certainly asking the wrong question.“
— Rasmus Lerdorf Danish programmer and creator of PHP 1968
PHP.net: eval http://php.net/eval, Anonymous comment, 2004
PHP in a Nutshell https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/php-in-a/0596100671/re47.html by Paul Hudson, 2005
— Richard Feynman, buch The Meaning of It All
lecture III: "This Unscientific Age"
The Meaning of It All (1999)
— Susanne K. Langer, buch Philosophy in a New Key
Quelle: Philosophy in a New Key (1942), Ch. 1, p. 1
— Bhakti Tirtha Swami American Hindu writer 1950 - 2005
If we do not, then we should look somewhere else.
Quelle: Books, Spiritual Warrior, Volume III: Solace for the Heart in Difficult Times (Hari-Nama Press, 2000), Chapter 8 - How To Strengthen Ourselves
— Howard S. Becker American sociologist 1928
Howard Becker (1974). "Art as Collective Action." American Sociological Review 39:767-76.
