I had a best answer to one of my questions which said "Without answers, questions are useless." Is this true?

Answer 1

I don't think so!

Answer 2

Questions allow us to have a direction to seek new information. "Without questions, answers are useless" should be the quotation.

This points to a perplexing aspect of human nature: deriving assumptions from misunderstandings rather than from legitimate lines of questioning. Science and art both demonstrate that unanswered questions are the driving force behind invention and discovery.

For various reasons beyond the scope of this question, religions can be used to provide universal answers. This can be seen as detrimental to free and creative thought. This is where statements like "without answers, questions are useless" are coming from.

Answer 3

Of course not.

Is the world flat?
Can I eat this?
How can I swim under the sea and breath?
Can man go into space?
What is relativity?

There are thousands of questions and beyond a doubt there are questions without answers. What is certainly true is that if we don't ask the question we will never find the answer. If someone had not asked the questions above and millions like them we would still be living in caves without fire!!!

Answer 4

Of course it's not true. Well I guess there is probably an answer to every question but some answers may vary from person to person with the same question and there are things which no one can answer 100% accurately. There will always be more questions than absolute answers.

Answer 5

You should say "without questions , thinking is useless and life will be aimless ". Questions are the motive for creation , because all changes in the universe based on explanation of all meanings that we don't know also the questions are our medium to reach the truth.

Answer 6

Questions are not entirely usless without an answer. Such as, why are we here and what is our lifelong purpose?? That question is always being answered, but no one really knows the RIGHT answer, or can prove it anyway. But where would our great philosiphers be without unanswered questions?? In fact, without questions...one would never need an answer to begin with.

Answer 7

I don't think so. Questions are the foundation of learning. The answers are really just the icing on the cake. The true worth of the question is your journey through knowledge.

Answer 8

You should know, since you had to choose the best answer yourself.

Incidentally, I think you could add a comma to the first sentence of your question, so it would read:

I had a best answer to one of my questions, which said "Without answers, questions are useless."

...because otherwise, someone might think that the "which" refers to the noun "one of my questions" immediately beforehand, whereas the clause in speech marks is not, strictly speaking, a question. And that might lead to confusion.

Answer 9

False, not every question has an answer. Think about in terms of God, religion and war. People ask numerous questions on this topic, but there is no "one" answer. So, yeha I disagree with that statement. Not all questions need to be answered

Answer 10

I believe it is the other way round. The questions we ask (of ourselves and others) guide us through life. eg, at the end of the day ask yourself what you are grateful for (10 things). You will feel good about life. Next day ask who has hurt you and list how they have hurt you. Note result!!!

Pablo Picasso said "Computers are useless, they can only give answers".

Answer 11

Nope! there can be more truth in questions than in answers. When interviewing I judge someone as much on the questions they ask me as on their answers.

"Wisest is he who knows he does not know"

Donald Rumsfeld (prize dork that the world does not deserve to suffer) was trying to say this in his "known unknowns" nonsense. But what he should have said is "we invaded Iraq because we ignored half the questions and made up the answers to the rest." Nitwit.