The scientific mind does not so much provide the right answers as ask the right questions.

The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he's one who asks the right questions.

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.

Son las preguntas que no podemos responder las que más nos enseñan. Nos enseñan cómo pensar. Si le das a un hombre una respuesta, lo único que gana es un pequeño hecho. Pero dale una pregunta y va a buscar sus propias respuestas. PATRICK ROTHFUSS, AUTOR

Perhaps real wisdom lies in not seeking answers at all. Any answer we find will not be true for long. An answer is a place where we can fall asleep as life moves past us to its next question. After all these years I have begun to wonder if the secret of living well is not in having all the answers but in pursuing unanswerable questions in good company.

In philosophy it is always good to put a question instead of an answer to a question. For an answer to the philosophical question may easily be unfair; disposing of it by means of another question is not.

The wise man is one who, knows, what he does not know.

Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.” — Pierre-Marc-Gaston

The simple truth is that an answer can only be as good as the question asked. If you ask the wrong question, you are going to get the wrong answer.

Will the wise man refuse to engage with such a person, and avoid all dialogue and examination? [26] But of all people he is supposed to be most adept in argument, expert in question and answer, and proof against sophisms and deceit. [27] Or will he engage with him but without caring whether he argues in a confused or careless manner? In that case how then will he be the sort of man we imagine him to be?

"Someone has to ask you a question," George continues meaningly, "before you can answer it. But it's so seldom you find anyone who'll ask the right questions. Most people aren't that much interested...."

A man who asks questions does not lose his way; that is what our fathers taught us.

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

A good question is worth a million good answers. A good question is like the one Albert Einstein asked himself as a small boy — “What would you see if you were traveling on a beam of light?” That question launched the theory of relativity, E=MC2, and the atomic age. A good question is not concerned with a correct answer. A good question cannot be answered immediately. A good question challenges existing answers. A good question is one you badly want answered once you hear it, but had no inkling you cared before it was asked. A good question creates new territory of thinking. A good question reframes its own answers. A good question is the seed of innovation in science, technology, art, politics, and business. A good question is a probe, a what-if scenario. A good question skirts on the edge of what is known and not known, neither silly nor obvious. A good question cannot be predicted. A good question will be the sign of an educated mind. A good question is one that generates many other good questions. A good question may be the last job a machine will learn to do. A good question is what humans are for.