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INQUIRY/QUESTIONS

1.    A prudent question is one half of wisdom. ~Francis Bacon E

2.    A timid question will always receive a confident answer. ~Lord Darling

3.    Every clarification breeds new questions. ~Arthur Bloch

4.    He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked. ~Voltaire

5.    He who asks a question may be a fool for five minutes. But he who never asks a question remains a fool forever. ~Tom J. Connelly

6.    I'd rather know some of the questions than all of the answers. ~James Thurber

7.    If you do not ask the right questions, you do not get the right answers. A question asked in the right way often points to its own answer. Asking questions is the A-B-C of diagnosis. Only the inquiring mind solves problems. ~Edward Hodnett

8.    It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry. ~Thomas Paine

9.    It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question. ~Decouvertes

10.  No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious. ~George Bernard Shaw

11.  Quality questions create a quality life. Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers. ~Anthony Robbins

12.  The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions. ~Anthony Jay

13.  The word question is derived from the Latin quarrier (to seek) which is the same root as the word for quest. A creative life is a continued quest, and good questions can be very useful guides. Most useful are open-ended questions; they allow for fresh unanticipated answers to reveal themselves. ~Source Unknown

14.  To find the exact answer, one must first ask the exact question. ~S. Tobin Webster

15.  To know when to be generous and when firm—that is wisdom. ~Elbert Hubbard

16.  You will know the clever by their answers; but the wise you will know by their questions. ~Naguib Mahfouz, Nobel prize winner