Quotes worth recording – Voltaire
By Rajesh Setty on Tue 12 Jun 2007, 7:42 AM – 2 Comments
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
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Anonymous on June 13th, 2007
Thank you Nagesh for posting these gems. Awesome!
Best,
Raj
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Anonymous on June 13th, 2007
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/