Edgar Bergen Quotes

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.

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 answers aren't important really... What's important is- knowing all the questions.

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

I really like questions. I like people who write scripts because they're asking questions, not because they're giving answers. It's something that I look for.

A Socrates in every classroom.

The skeptic does not mean him who doubts, but him who investigates or researches, as opposed to him who asserts and thinks that he has found.

I go around the room and ask people, 'What do you think?'

And when I started college, I think I was good at two things: arguing and asking questions.

In terms of asking questions, I plead guilty. I ask a hell of a lot of questions. That's my job.

The most important thing I think teachers can do for young people is to make them inquiring, is to ensure that they know how to gather information, that they check information and they take their information from a multiplicity of sources.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

I am completely Socratic.

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

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 investigate more directly. I tend to ask a lot of questions and don't feel satisfied until I have the answer.

Always ask questions.

My job is to ask tough questions.

That's something I learned as a philosophy major: The philosophy ethos is, always question, never rest.