“Adolescence begins when children stop asking questions-because they know all the answers.” KnowsChildrenFunnyAnswersAskingAdolescenceAprilAsking QuestionsApril Fools Day Author:Evan Esar
“Customers don't know what they want. There's plenty of good psychology research that shows that people are not able to accurately predict how they would behave in the future. So asking them, 'Would you buy my product if it had these three features?' or 'How would you react if we changed our product this way?' is a waste of time. They don't know.” PeopleIfsKnowsWayWantShowsAbleThreePsychologyChangedProductsWasteResearchAskingCustomersPlentyFeaturesBehaveWasting Time Author:Eric Ries
“Maybe if you stopped asking "why" all the time, you might be happy. Leave it alone, you know? Life is happy.” IfsKnowsMightHappinessLife IsBuddhismAskingAsking Why Author:Frederick Lenz
“I checked to see if there’d been a really good book published in the last few decades. Then I started with what Cleopatra would have read, asking myself, “What can we know about her education?” It turns out to be a very great deal, and bizarrely, no one had written about that before.” IfsKnowsBookLastsTurnsDealsWrittenAskingDecadesGood Book Author:Stacy Schiff
“Everyone today is like, 'Shailene, you're getting so much buzz. How does the feel?' It's the most odd question because it's like asking a kid who got into Cornell how it feels to be the top of your class at one of the Ivy League schools. How do you answer that? You just go, 'I don't know.” KnowsFeelsDoeKidsTodaySchoolAnswersClassAskingOddLeagueIvyBuzzIvy LeagueIvy League Schools Author:Shailene Woodley
“If we think systematically, we will stop asking, How much is nature worth? We will know that we are a piece of nature ourselves.” IfsThinkingKnowsNaturePiecesAsking Author:Karl-Henrik Robert
“When people asked Socrates, ‘What is wisdom?’ he always gave the same answer: ‘I don’t know’. In fact, Socrates never claimed to know much of anything except how to ask questions. And by asking questions, he would prove to other people that they didn’t know what they thought they knew.” PeopleKnowsFactsAsksAnswersProveAskingAsking Questions Author:Jim Rohn
“If you have competence, you know the edge. It wouldnt be a competence if you didnt know where the boundaries lie. Asking whether youve passed the boundary is a question that almost answers itself.” IfsKnowsLyingAnswersAskingEdgesBoundariesCompetence Author:Charlie Munger