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Questioning and Posing Problems

Having a questioning attitude. Developing strategies to produce needed data. Finding problems to solve. How do you know?

You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
Naguib Mahfouz (Nobel Prize Winner)
Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire
Nothing shapes our journey through life so much as the questions we ask.
Greg Levoy
The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions.
Claude Levi-Strauss, businessman
It is better to ask some of the questions than to know all the answers.
James Thurber
Too often we give our children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.
Roger Lewin
The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it.
Alan Saporta
I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them.
Albert Einstein
Bromidic though it may sound, some questions don't have answers, which is a terribly difficult lesson to learn.
Katherine Graham
The important thing is to not stop questioning.
Albert Einstein
Find a way to engage the heart in the problem and you are likely to see the child rise naturally to his own optimal levels of uncertainty, risk and relevance.
Richard Jones
Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves... Do not now seek the answers which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them and the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.
Rainer Maria Rilke
It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
Jacob Bronowski
Here are the three great questions which in life we have over and over again to answer: Is it right or wrong? Is it true or false? Is it beautiful or ugly? Our education ought to help us to answer these questions.
John Lubbock
A generous and elevated mind is distinguished by nothing more certainly than an eminent degree of curiosity.
Samuel Johnson
It is in the formulation of the problem that individuality is expressed, that creativity is stimulated, that nuances and subtleties are discovered.
Herbert Thelen
The formulation of a problem is often more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skill. To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advances.
Albert Einstein
When we accept tough jobs as a challenge to our ability and wade into them with joy and enthusiasm, miracles can happen.
Arland Gilbert
If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking - by all means ask!
W. Clement Stone
Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them, they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight.
Orison Swett Marden
If you find a good solution and become attached to it, the solution may become your next problem.
Dr. Robert Anthony
There is no education like adversity.
Benjamin Disraeli
Quality questions create a quality life. Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers.
Anthony Robbins
Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.
Kahlil Gabran
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