#questions

Newspapermen ask dumb questions. They look up at the sun and ask if it is shining. ↗

— Sonny Liston

#dumb #look #questions #shining #sun

There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men. ↗

— John Locke

#discourses #frequently #learned #men #more

If you ask questions that interest you, you'll get answers that interest your audience. ↗

— Kurt Loder

#ask #audience #get #interest #questions

I've done thousands of interviews in my life, and it's a format that I quite enjoy, because I think of questions in interviews as an opportunity to sort of gauge my growth in a way. It gives me an idea of how I'm navigating this world that I'm in. ↗

— Ian MacKaye

#done #enjoy #format #gauge #gives

You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions. ↗

— Naguib Mahfouz

#clever #his #man #questions #tell

Conversely, beware the man who does nothing but ask you questions about yourself and offers no information about himself. Not only is he keeping you at bay, he is probably not listening to your answers. ↗

— Merrill Markoe

#answers #ask #bay #beware #conversely

Some other things I don't miss: the media and the pressure of just being asked to do, and being asked questions every day. ↗

— Pedro Martinez

#being #day #every #every day #i

And I think that what is of concern is that they seem to be bringing skills from the scientific world into the interrogation room in a way that begs a lot of questions about whether it's ethical. ↗

— Jane Mayer

#begs #bringing #concern #ethical #i

I can't deal with the press; I hate all those Beatles questions. ↗

— Paul McCartney

#deal #hate #i #press #questions

Here's the teaching point, if you're teaching kids about intelligence and policy: Intelligence does not absolve policymakers of responsibility to ask tough questions, and it doesn't absolve them of having curiosity about the consequences of their actions. ↗

— George Tenet

#absolve #actions #ask #consequences #curiosity