41 Quotes About Asking Questions

No one person knows all the information in the world. To find the right answers, you must ask the right questions. These quotes about asking questions encourage the continued search for information and knowledge.

“An expert knows all the answers – if you ask the right questions.”

“And I like asking questions, to keep learning; people with big egos might not want to look unsure.”

“And when I started college, I think I was good at two things: arguing and asking questions.”

“Ask the right questions if you’re going to find the right answers.”

“Asking the right questions takes as much skill as giving the right answers.”

“Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.”

“Curiosity is the process of asking questions, genuine questions, that are not leading to an ask for something in return.”

“Going online and asking questions is the best way to learn.”

“He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; he who does not ask a question remains a fool forever.”

“Here’s a collection of my favorite quotes on questions.”

“I found I wasn’t asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something.”

“I grew a reputation for always asking questions and being nosy.”

“I have always been much better at asking questions than knowing what the answers were.”

“I never learn anything talking. I only learn things when I ask questions.”

“If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don’t have to worry about answers.”

“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.”

“In all affairs, it’s a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.”

“In school, we’re rewarded for having the answer, not for asking a good question.”

“It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.”

“It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.”

“It’s not that they can’t see the solution. They can’t see the problem.”

“Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers ”

“Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.”

“Management teams aren’t good at asking questions. In business school, we train them to be good at giving answers.”

“My greatest strength as a consultant is to be ignorant and ask a few questions.”

“Once you start asking questions, innocence is gone.”

“People are fascinated by space flight. It makes them interested in science, gets them asking questions and motivates them.”

“Sometimes questions are more important than answers.”

“Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers.”

“The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.”

“The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions.”

“There are no right answers to wrong questions.”

“To be able to ask a question clearly is two-thirds of the way to getting it answered.”

“We get wise by asking questions, and even if these are not answered, we get wise, for a well-packed question carries its answer on its back as a snail carries its shell.”

“We hear only those questions for which we are in a position to find answers.”

“We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.”

“What people think of as the moment of discovery is really the discovery of the question.”

“What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning.”

“When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new questions, then it is time to die.”

“Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much.”

“Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.”

To get the right answers, you must ask the right questions. How you proceed to gather and inquire about information can affect your end result.