2007-06-09 13:54:23 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Both equally.
2007-06-09 13:58:40 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
A person who can ask good questions, b/c a person who can give good answers is not opening up to his creative side and thinking up new challenges to be discovered. He's only giving his own experience to others, and the person who receives that knowledge may have to personally experience the question to truly understand as answers-guy does!!!!
2007-06-09 23:16:55 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The person who can ask good questions. That does not necessarily exclude the person who can give good answers, though. They may both be attributes of one person.
The reason I chose the first option is because that person is always open to learning. The person who can give the good answer may not be. They may consider themselves an expert on a particular subject and have closed their mind to other possibilities.
Throughout history, great thinkers and leaders may or may not have fallen into category two, but virtually all of them have fallen into category one.
To continue to grow and expand, a person has to have a "beginner's mind", or the ability to consider and process new information, even if the person is an accomplished expert.
2007-06-09 22:36:30 · answer #3 · answered by Rikki 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Its easier to ask a question than to give a good answer.
When you answer a question, you are making a claim to know something-you stick your neck out, in a sense. The best questions just ask themselves, we dont need a person to point them out. The questions people ask are either rhetorical, which is a passive aggresive and unsubstantial attempt to make a point, or they are genuine- which is a sign of good character for the person asking- that they recognize their own ignorance is possible-which is something that should be easier to accept in this society than apparently it is.
An answer is either right or wrong, or perhaps incomplete. And it is easier to judge a person's knowledge and understanding by their answers than by their questions. Bad answers are common and humiliating. A good answer is a sign of mastery, so I respect the person with the good answer more than the person who asked the question.
2007-06-09 21:20:10 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
In terms of "people-watching", both are demonstrative. But given so many people give answers simultaneously, you frequently get reams of virtually identical answers - but that in itself could imply the question didn't leave much room for manoeuvre. However, every now and then you come across an absolute gem in amongst the cloned responses, and I respect those answers very much. Individuality is genuinely impressive, I suppose.
2007-06-09 21:34:57 · answer #5 · answered by Munchkin 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I respect both, but I prefer to talk with people that ask the right questions. Some time the right question IS the answer.
2007-06-09 21:04:22 · answer #6 · answered by RitaEmm 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Seeing as how good questions are rare, but good answers to the good questions are even more rare, I would have to say that a good answer to a good question gets the most respect from me.
2007-06-09 21:09:52 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
A person who can ask good questions. When you ask the right questions, you can learn a lot.
2007-06-09 21:02:55 · answer #8 · answered by Gypsy Girl 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The mark of a good teacher is not the answers he gives but the questions he poses
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2007-06-09 21:47:28 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I can't respect one and not the other.
2007-06-10 00:28:40 · answer #10 · answered by ROBERT P 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋