Jonathan Nolan Quotes

One reads in order to ask questions

A picture can be an answer as well as a question but if you can't answer your question try to question your question... There can be questions without answers but no answers without questions.

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

The question is just as important as the answer.

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

Teaching can be learning, especially if student curiosity with the question 'What's going on here?' can be elicited.

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

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

I believe that good questions are more important than answers, and the best children's books ask questions, and make the readers ask questions. And every new question is going to disturb someone's universe.

I began to realize that thinking itself is nothing but the process of asking and answering questions.

Socrates worked towards making people question themselves. He like to provoke self-interrogation but wasn't particularly interested in the answers that emerged; he just like to set off the thought process.

Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers.

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

The best way to get a better answer is to start asking a better question.

The best teachers aren't those who answer our questions, but those who question our answers.

I wish that we worried more about asking the right questions instead of being so hung up on finding answers.

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

The questions are always more important than the answers.

When you ask the best questions of yourself and others, you invite the best answers.

Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.

To ask questions can become the laziest and wobbliest occupation of a mind, but when you must yourself answer the problem that you have posed, you will meditate your question with care and frame it with precision.

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

The quality of a leader cannot be judged by the answers he gives, but by the questions he asks.

Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers.