2007-03-17 10:41:31 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
My college English professor - under whom I studied and for whom I also worked as a research assistant - said that it was the questions that mattered.
If you ask the right questions, you will eventually arrive at the truth.
2007-03-17 11:27:59 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
to ask a truly great question requires great insight into the issue.
Most of our great scientific discoveries were teh result not of asking question sin general, but of asking THE RIGHT QUESTION that then led to the answer.
Unlike the chicken and the egg, Questions must precede answers to questions. the better the question, the better the answer (as is very apparent by how many really poorly asked questions pop up here - hint one: NO ONE can definitely state how anything impacted a person, or what the person truly thinks simply by looking at a work of fiction they created!) Only those that foolishly think they have all the answers would ask such a foolish question and prove that they really don't have teh answers...
2007-03-17 10:54:12 · answer #2 · answered by DocSkinner 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What constitutes a 'great' question? What's great to one person, may be not so great to another.
I think it's harder to answer a 'great' question than asking one. I'm not sure where intelligence comes in.
Sometimes the best questions and answers come from children with little education.
2007-03-17 11:19:02 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Why does the teacher askes the students questions? Could the teacher be trying to see if the students have been listening?
Why did Newton wonder why an apple falls from a tree? Did his curiosity lead him to better understandings of Gravity?
How does knowledge increase?
Who asks more questions: childreen or adults?
What is the nature of a question?
Where is the curiosity for the questions coming from?
When is a good time to ask questions?
2007-03-17 10:49:25 · answer #4 · answered by Giggly Giraffe 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Dah, is this a trick question??????
Intelligence is not always in the question nor answer..
tho they were learned, they were not wise.. comes to mind..
i have a brother who is a genius, but, that does not mean his choices were neither intelligent in life he has made nor wise..
One would think he would have the intelligence to thus make wise choices.. but, in everything in life we chose , either by choice or default we have chosen. True Intelligence is in the wisdom to know when to open ones mouth and when to keep it closed... leaving no doubt of ones true intelligence.
2007-03-17 10:59:53 · answer #5 · answered by miladyfaire 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I would say so.
I believe it's harder to formulate a question if one has no idea what is the underlying answer to such and going both ways, i believe it is harder to compose one's thoughts into a great answer if one can't have any idea of the question that originally brought forth the composition of such answer.
2007-03-17 11:36:10 · answer #6 · answered by oscar c 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think that asking one is as great as answering one because it would take some kind of superior knowledge to answer the question.
Then again, you'd have to be smart to ask the question in the first place...
Ask the questiona and answer it yourself and you're golden. ; )
-Wes
2007-03-17 10:54:45 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You bet it does!
It is in asking the right question that oft times becomes the occasion for increasing our knowledge; and the right question to ask is always a great question.
HTH
Charles
2007-03-17 10:52:26 · answer #8 · answered by Charles 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes it does!
When someone asks a great question that's as great as Adolf Hitler! they usually get intelligent come backs like "Go die in a hole..." or "If you don't believe in God, you're going to rot in hell!!!"
Yahoo!Answers is a damn good laugh. Hehe.
*The above is meant as sarcasm...I really don't approve of Nazism if anyone asks, I'm quite the opposite*
2007-03-17 10:49:17 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Thats a great question!
2007-03-17 12:46:01 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋