Laura Linney Quotes

The question is just as important as the answer.

You gotta ask 'why' questions. 'Why did you do this?' A 'why' question you can't answer with one word.

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

My job is not to give you all the answers. My job is to ask the questions.

My job is not to produce answers. My job is to produce good questions.

I'm just quizzical about how things work and why things are.

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.

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

My favorite question is 'Why?' I think it can be really helpful - I also think it can be annoying to people at times; I'll admit that. But I really do try to understand why are we approaching it this way, does it makes sense, is this the right answer, why is it the right answer, are there other paths to getting there, could those be better.

Ask an impertinent question and you are on the way to the pertinent answer.

Thinking begins when you ask really difficult questions.

To ask the proper question is half of knowing.

It's not enough to have the right answers. You have to have the right questions.

To ask the 'right' question is far more important than to receive the answer. The solution of a problem lies in the understanding of the problem; the answer is not outside the problem, it is in the problem.

I keep six honest serving men (they taught me all i knew); Theirs names are What and Why and When And How And Where and Who.

The questions are always more important than the answers.

Sometimes, the best answer is a more interesting question.

The task is not so much to solve problems as to propose questions.

We have to be able to ask questions in order to answer them.

Good questions outrank easy answers.

Answers are not obtained by putting the wrong question and thereby begging the real one.

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

'How' is a great thing to know. 'Why' is the ultimate. I'm the 'why' coach. Why are we doing this? Why are we not doing that? Why is this not working? Those are the things I want to know.

If we would have new knowledge, we must get a whole world of new questions.