John W. Henry Quotes

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

We must strive for literacy and education that teach us to never quit questioning and probing at the assumptions of the day.

Good questions outrank easy answers.

A Socrates in every classroom.

Science is fun. Science is curiosity. We all have natural curiosity. Science is a process of investigating. It's posing questions and coming up with a method. It's delving in.

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.

I remember when I was a kid in school and teachers would explain things to me about what I read, and I'd think, Where did they get that? I didn't read that in there. Later you look at it and think, That's kind of an interesting idea.

Large skepticism leads to large understanding. Small skepticism leads to small understanding. No skepticism leads to no understanding.

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

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.

As a teacher, my strategy is to encourage questioning. I'm the least authoritarian professor you'll ever meet.

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

By looking at the questions the kids are asking, we learn the scope of what needs to be done.

The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions.

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.

We live in an age of universal investigation, and of exploration of the sources of all movements.

Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing.