The ability to ask the right question is more than half the battle of finding the answer.
Answer Quotes
“It’s time for you to answer now”, the Queen said, looking at her watch: “open your mouth a little wider when you speak, and always say ‘Your Majesty’.”
The job is to ask questions – it always was – and to ask them as inexorably as I can. And to face the absence of precise answers with a certain humility.
There is more learning in the question itself than the answer.
It ain’t what they call you, it’s what you answer to.
People who live in glass houses have to answer the bell.
A few years ago, I thought I knew all the answers. Now, I’m not sure I even understand the questions.
I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don’t know the answer.
One of the big misapprehensions about mathematics that we perpetrate in our classrooms is that the teacher always seems to know the answer to any problem that is discussed. This gives students the idea that there is a book somewhere with all the right answers to all of the interesting questions, and that teachers know […]
The sign said, “Jesus is the answer.” Which is kinda weird, since my question was “What the hell’s this stuff on my sandwich?”
