Quotes About Questioning

Consider the kind of questions that kids ask. Sure, they may be silly or simplistic or out of bounds. But kids are also relentlessly curious and relatively unbiased. Because they know so little, they don't carry around the preconceptions that often stop people from seeing things as they are. When it comes to solving problems, this is a big advantage.

If you are willing to confront the obvious, you will end up asking a lot of questions that others don't.

Particular gift is the ability to ask such questions. For instance: If drug dealers make so much money, why do they still live with their mothers? Which is more dangerous, a gun or a swimming pool? What really caused crime rates to plunge during the past decade? Do real-estate agents have their clients' best interests at heart? Why do black parents give their children names that may hurt their career prospects? Do schoolteachers cheat to meet high-stakes testing.

If it takes a lot of courage to admit you don't know all the answers, just imagine how hard it is to admit you don't even know the right question. But if you ask the wrong question, you are almost guaranteed to get the wrong answer.

Believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it. —André Gide

given sufficient ignorance, one can doubt evolution....

So I'm heading for Truth or Consequences. Aren't we all, says Lorenzo, aren't we all.

It would be nice to see people earn brownie points for acknowledging uncertainty in their beliefs, questioning the dogmas of their political sect, and changing their minds when the facts change, rather than for being steadfast warriors for the dogmas of their clique.

Eisner, together with the historian Randolph Roth, notes that crime often shoots up in decades in which people question their society and government, including the American Civil War, the 1960s, and post-Soviet Russia.

To whom could I put this question (with any hope of an answer)? Does being able to live without someone you loved mean you loved her less than you thought...?

O love, how did you get here?

You doubt because you love truth.

One day he went away and I thought I'd die, but I didn't. And I said to myself: 'is that all there is to love?'

I'd asked around 10 or 15 people for suggestions. Finally one lady friend asked the right question, 'Well, what do you love most?' That's how I started painting money.

But I hadn't known what love was. And I wondered how you could ever be sure, when you thought you loved someone, if you really did.

God is love? Not bloody likely.

What you should do when you're writing a book is you should have a question and it should be a real question. It should be one you don't know the answer to and then you should be studying and writing like mad and reading everything you can get your hands on to see if you can actually grapple with the problem and come to some solution and you should walk the reader as well through your process of thinking.

Women are often intent on formulating the problem when they are discussing something, and they need to be listened to—even questioned—to help ensure clarity in the formulation. Then, whatever problem is left, if any, can be helpfully solved. (It should also be noted first that too-early problem-solving may also merely indicate a desire to escape from the effort of the problem-formulating conversation.)

Inopportune questioning can confuse, without enlightening, as well as deflecting you from action.

Almost all ideas are wrong. It doesn't matter if they are your ideas or someone else's ideas. Your job is to assume that they are probably wrong, and then to assault them with every thing you have in your arsenal, and see if they can survive.

forward when you ask an emotionally charged question, and then continuing to lean forward while your prospect answers (while also using the active listening techniques I laid out above in number 3).

They tend to ask lots of questions that they seem to already know the answers to. They make it a point to kick the tires of whatever it is you're selling, almost to the point of over-kicking them. They let out a large number of ooos and aahs and yups, to reinforce the sense that they're genuinely interested. When asked about their finances, they either become boisterously overconfident or unnecessarily vague.

Say something," he said. "What?" I mumbled, struggling to orient myself. "What?" "Can you hear me? What day is it? Who's the president?" "Yes, I don't know, and a horse's ass.

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