Most important: Knowing all the questions one could ask or all the answers in the universe?

Question

A question is the absence of an answer, but an answer does not need a question.

One does not ask where the bathroom is if he already knows. Answers don't need questions.

Answer 1

If you have all the questions, and I have all the answers, which of us will get rich? Who will do the paying and who will be getting paid?

Contrary to what some are saying, it is not necessary to ask a question to act.

"I need food. I know that food is there. I will go to the food. I will eat the food, which will satisfy my need."

Note that I never had to ask myself where the food was. I already knew. I also already knew what to do with the food. I didn't have to ask that, either.

Questions might make more fun than answers, if you like having mysteries to explore, but the object of the question is the answer. However, the object of the answer is the action the follows it, not the question that preceded it.

Answer 2

Wrong question produces wrong answers. One would first need to define what is "important" in there small time of existance, know if one has the potential to get answers if he knew all the questions, potential to ask the questions if he had all the answers, define what answers are and whether or not solutions are in its definition, and so forth and so on. Also, one would have to link the answers to the questions- like having a word bank for a fill in the blank, you have all the answers but know not where to put them. I guess i'm saying you need to state your question better if you want better answers and/or solutions.

Whenever you ask a question about anything, think vertically, does the solution or answer matter, or can you find a solution that covers more than just that of which you ponder?

I do not claim to know anything as truth- just to live out life by what presents itself to be true, at the moment of my thought

Answer 3

In a word: 42.

In summary: all the answers in the world would be useless without the questions. If you have all the questions, then you can seek the answers to the ones you need and will even know what to ask yet.

Answer 4

The answers wouldn't mean anything to you if you hadn't had a chance to ponder the questions. If you had all the questions in the world at least you'd know what to look for.

Call me a math geek, but it's like in a geometry problem; take a proof. If someone just came up to you and said "This angle is bigger than this angle cause of the blablabla theorem" you'd be like, "Uhh, who cares?" But if they asked you all of the questions you could ask yourself about the problem, like "what is stopping me from getting the answer to this" and "what is missing that I need to solve this problem" then you'd be able to ponder them and eventually come up with your own answers. Unless you are completely hopeless at math. But that's another matter. :P

Answer 5

Disagree with all of you. Imagine if you knew all the answers!

To know the answer, there must be related material. If someone asks you something, and you answer correctly, you know because you learnt it from somewhere.

All you would need would be an accomplice. Someone to ask you every week "what are this week's winning lottery numbers?" and you would know, because you have all the answers.

Ohhhh...the power!

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Answer 6

Wouldn't be any fun to ask a question but never get an answer to it. Likewise, it wouldn't help at all to have every answer available, but no question to link it too. Like knowing a punchline, but not knowing the joke.

Answer 7

There would be no answers without first a question and it' impossible to know all the questions one could ask...after all the is GOD's position- the omniscient one

Answer 8

I fyou know most of the answers you realise you don't need to bother asking anymore because the answers you gain dont change anything

Answer 9

well if you know the answers you need not ask the question