A Quote by W. Edwards Deming

The questions are more important than the answers.

W. Edwards Deming

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W. Edwards Deming
American - Scientist
October 14, 1900 - December 20, 1993

I believe that good questions are more important than answers, and the best children's books ask questions, and make the readers ask questions. And every new question is going to disturb someone's universe.

Madeleine L'Engle

The questions are always more important than the answers.

Randy Pausch

Sometimes questions are more important than answers.

Nancy Willard

Why ... did so many people spend their lives not trying to find answers to questions -- not even thinking of questions to begin with? Was there anything more exciting in life than seeking answers?

Isaac Asimov

Questions are the important thing, answers are less important. Learning to ask a good question is the heart of intelligence. Learning the answer-well, answers are for students. Questions are for thinkers.

Roger Schank

There was a time when I had all the answers. My real growth began when I discovered that the questions to which I had the answers were not the important questions.

Reinhold Niebuhr

You have to learn to ask questions in a way that will elicit more nuanced answers, rather than the answers you would like to get.

Jacqueline Novogratz

Inquiry is more important than answers, for it is the questions we ask and the way in which we ask them that defines us.

John Paul Caponigro

While many conclusions are drawn... the process of asking questions is more important than the answers... an ongoing process of discovery.

John Paul Caponigro

As human beings, don't we need questions without answers as well as questions with answers, questions that we might someday answer and questions that we can never answer?

Alan Lightman

Science goes from question to question; big questions, and little, tentative answers. The questions as they age grow ever broader, the answers are seen to be more limited.

George Wald

You can't say history teaches us this or that; it gives us more questions than answers, and many answers to every question.

Amin Maalouf

There's a shift of these young artists who have been brought up, educated, with these media around them. If you have a question, if you have a doubt, you go to the Internet, for example. And you will get thousands of answers to your questions. All of this will proliferate more kinds of questions and more kinds of answers.

Gunnar Kvaran

We do not ask the right questions when we are young, so we miss the important answers. Now it is too late to ask, too late for the illuminating answers, and the unanswered questions haunt us for a lifetime.

Peter Abrahams

Between the semi-educated, who offer simplistic answers to complex questions, and the overeducated, who offer complicated answers to simple questions, it is a wonder that any questions get satisfactorily answered at all.

Sydney J. Harris

Right answers to difficult questions are better than wrong answers to difficult questions.

N. T. Wright

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