Robert Half Quotes

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

Asking the right questions is as important as answering them

Good questions outrank easy answers.

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

The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions.

Posing good questions is harder than it might seem... It's hard because asking good questions requires you to see past the easy answers and to focus instead on the difficult, the tricky, the mysterious, the awkward, and sometimes the painful. ... Great leaders don't have all the answers, but they know how to ask the right questions - questions that force others and themselves to move past old and tired answers, questions that open up possibilities that, before the question, went unseen.

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

The question is just as important as the answer.

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.

Ask the right questions if you're to find the right answers.

Hypothetical questions are good because they're usually on the mark.

Asking the right questions is half the solution to any problem.

My only weapon is the question.

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

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.

A well-trained man knows how to answer questions; an educated man knows what questions are worth asking.

That's all managing is: just coming up with the right questions and getting the right answers.

To ask the right question is already half the solution of a problem.

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

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

Ask "why" until there is no more "why."

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

Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt.

Doubt, the essential preliminary of all improvement and discovery, must accompany the stages of man's onward progress. The faculty of doubting and questioning, without which those of comparison and judgment would be useless, is itself a divine prerogative of the reason.