Which is more important, a question or an answer?

Answer 1

An answer.

A question without and answer is an enigma.

Answer 2

i will have to go with the saying "the question is all important." But you need a good question ;) As Krishnamurti said, as soon as you ask a good question (which is hard to do) the answer is already revealed. It's like his saying about seeking:

The fact that we are seeking is all important, and not what is being sought.
What one seeks is the projection of one's own desire.
Seeking is not the state of search;
it is a reaction, a process of denial and assertion with regard to an idea made by the mind.
To seek the proverbial needle in a haystack,
there must already be knowledge of the needle.
Similarly, to see god, happiness, silence or what you will,
is already to have known, formulated or imagined it.
Seeking, as it's called, is always for something known.
Finding is recognizing, and recognition is based on previous knowledge.
The mind that's seeking is waiting, expecting, desiring,
and what it finds is recognizable, therefore already known.
Seeking is the action of the past.
(Krishnamurti)

An answer is pretty much nothing without a question, where as a question can be a lot without an answer. How relevent is saying "everything"? See it is nothing without the question. Whereas the question, "What should we unconditionaly love?", completes the answers. But the question by it's adequet, because it already tells us we should unconditionaly love something :) And that it does exist.

Answer 3

they are both equally important. and answer without a question is useless because what is the point of an answer if u don't have the question? and a question without an answer is only a question. without an answer the question will be in ur mind untill u finally find out the answer.

Answer 4

Anybody can find the right answer.

Not anyone can ask the right question.

Therefore, a question is more important than an answer.

An answer has a beginning and an ending.

A question can have neither a beginning nor an ending. It can drive eternity.

Answer 5

HI;

Neither, the most important is Truth.
and therefore in this case that makes my Answer to your question the most important. So in retrospect, the most important is 'an answer spoken in truth.'

or if we boil it down further, we come back to the beginning of the answer which is simply Truth. And truth does not need to be asked or answered, it simply JUST IS WHAT IT IS.


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Answer 6

Your question, as stated is meaningless. What is important depends on context.

That said, I would say the question, or more specifically, the skill to ask questions is more important. In engineering, it is said that a problem well defined is half-solved. This means that to formulate properly the problem, you need to sort things in your mind. With this habit, most likely you would know how to get the answer to the simpler questions, leaving you with more energy to tackle the harder questions.

Answer 7

Without question, the question.

There's no guarantee of an answer (at least not a good one)
but the question begins the search.

Sometimes the question alone sets the stage.

Begin the day with: "Why am I so lucky?"
you will likely have a good one.

Start with "Why does everyone hate me?"
and you're pretty much doomed.

Answer 8

A question, because it is an indication of the thought process. Answers are great, but subjective. A really good answer will open the mental door to more questions!

Answer 9

I believe they are equally important. We all have questions and we all need answers. You cannot get a correct answer unless you ask a specific question.

Answer 10

A question; you may learn new things

If you answer you are learning twice

which is more important? That question whose answer has been answered and the question itself

Answer 11

My personal observation on the matter...

It is all about the questions.

As soon as we silly mortals succeed in fooling ourselves into believing that we know the answers, the quest for knowledge becomes a meaningless debate over 'facts'...a battle of mediocre wits over moot points.

The questions ARE the answer.