I pray to the God within me that He will give me the strength to ask Him the right questions.
Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
He who knows all the answers has not been asked all the questions.
The value of the security analyst to the investor depends largely on the investor's own attitude. If the investor asks the analyst the right questions, he is likely to get the right—or at least valuable— answers.
There's just one person who's allowed to ask, or answer, rhetorical questions in my courtroom — and that's me! Understand? No, don't answer! There you go again.
But you are a scientist, Michael Poole; and the skill of a scientist is in asking the right question.
If you don't ask the right question, every answer seems wrong
What I had learned about human rights proved to be directly relevant to my thinking about animal rights. Whether any animals have rights depends on the true answer to one question: Are any animals subjects-of-a-life? This is the question that needs to be asked about animals because this is the question we need to ask about us.
Those who are concerned with the arts are often asked questions, not always sympathetic ones, about the use or value of what they are doing. It is probably impossible to answer such questions directly, or at any rate to answer the people who ask them.
The answers are easy. Asking the right questions is hard.