Quotes worth recording - Voltaire
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Unfortunately, our school systems teach a person how to answer. May be there should a course on how to ask good questions? For starters, you can get close to a 100 new questions at Squidoo: The Power of Questions
Enjoy the quote.
“Judge of a man by his questions, rather than by his answers”
- Voltaire
This is an excellent quotation. Below are my favourite quotations on the power of questions.
The wise man doesn’t give the right
answers, he poses the right questions.
* Claude Levi-Strauss
The important thing is to not stop questioning.
* Albert Einstein
No man really becomes a fool until he stops asking questions.
* Charles Steinmetz
My greatest strength as a consultant is
to be ignorant and ask a few questions.
* Peter Ferdinand Drucker
The most serious mistakes are
not being made as a result of wrong answers.
The truly dangerous thing is asking the wrong question.
* Peter Ferdinand Drucker
Quality questions create a quality life.
Successful people ask better questions,
and as a result, they get better answers.
* Anthony Robbins
The one quotation that captures the essence of the mindset of asking the right questions is from Mahfouz Naguib, the great Egyptian novelist.
You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers.
You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
* Mahfouz Naguib
This following Chinese Proverb summarises the reason why many of us hesitate to ask the questions we have.
He who asks is a fool for five minutes,
but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.
* Chinese Proverb
Your readers may access my collection of inspirational quotations at http://www.inspiration.rightattitudes.com/
Thank you Nagesh for posting these gems. Awesome!
Best,
Raj