Karen Hughes Quotes

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

That is a good question for you to ask, not a wise question for me to answer.

I think that probably the most important thing about our education was that it taught us to question even those things we thought we knew. To say you've got to inquire, you've got to be testing your knowledge all the time in order to be more effective in what you're doing.

The key to wisdom is this - constant and frequent questioning, for by doubting we are led to question and by questioning we arrive at the truth.

Constant and frequent questioning is the first key to wisdom … For through doubting we are led to inquire, and by inquiry we perceive the truth.

I spent a lot of time in college. I was just being academic and discovering myself through reason and analysis.

O my body, make of me always a man who questions!

And what greater might do we possess as human beings than our capacity to question and to learn?

Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, many opinions; for opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making.

That's healthy and good for us that there are people who are prepared to question what we are doing.

As an undergraduate, I did maths and physics. That doesn't make me a scientist. So I try to read and understand and talk to scientists.

A Socrates in every classroom.

To question your own process is a necessity. If you don't question yourself, it's impossible to improve.

I don't pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about.

I always say I have a Socratic approach to most things that I do. I pummel people with questions, because I need to know what they're thinking, what they're trying to achieve, what they believe the final outcome is going to be.

One of the things that characterizes good intellectual work is a certain self-importance.

The best books are the ones that ask the most questions.

Asking questions is what brains were born to do, at least when we were young children. For young children, quite literally, seeking explanations is as deeply rooted a drive as seeking food or water.

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

If you do not know how to ask the right question, you discover nothing.

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

Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing.

One of the very important characteristics of a student is to question. Let the students ask questions.

The marvelous thing about a good question is that it shapes our identity as much by the asking as it does by the answering.

Focusing on the right question is very different from having the right answers.