Adults Quote by Yoko Ogawa Download Open image ““He preferred smart questions to smart answers.”” — Yoko Ogawa ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Adults Children Intelligence Questions
“He seemed convinced that children's questions were much more important than those of an adult. He preferred smart questions to smart answers.” — Yoko Ogawa Copy Share Image
“Sometimes we get so caught up in appearing smart that we become afraid to ask the question that will actually make us smart.” — John Hawkins Copy Share Image
“Do a lot of questions mean you are really smart or really dumb?” — Allan Dare Pearce Copy Share Image
“He was smart, but he had to be smarter. No points for second place.” — Kenneth Eade Copy Share Image
“But his very best questions always popped out of his mind, unprepared, never having been written down in advance because they were the angle… — Philip A. Fisher Copy Share Image
“He had a talent for asking exactly the right questions to lead me to my own answers. Just being near him made things clearer.” — k.d. sarge Copy Share Image
“You're your own kind of smart. I loved the way he said the word "smart.” — Amy Harmon Copy Share Image
“But he has a clever way of getting answers with carefully worded statements.” — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
“He knew he had a lot to learn—that was why he was asking questions.” — James Dashner Copy Share Image
“That was the trouble with smart men. They thought they had all the answers, and then when life knocked them aside, they thought it… — Jade Lee Copy Share Image
“Why were there some people who seemed so sure of themselves that it made him feel small and ignorant by comparison, as if they… — Marcus Sedgwick Copy Share Image
“...because being a smart-ass is always preferable to being a dumb-ass.” — Arlaina Tibensky Copy Share Image
“Are all things quantifiable, and all numbers fraught with poetic possibility?” — Yōko Ogawa Copy Share Image
“Solving a problem for which you know there's an answer is like climbing a mountain with a guide, along a trail someone else has… — Yoko Ogawa Copy Share Image
“When we grow up, we find ways to hide our anxieties, our loneliness, our fear and sorrow. But children hide nothing, putting everything into… — Yoko Ogawa Copy Share Image
“Since that time, I've had many similar moments, and I can never hear the words "family" and "home" without feeling that they sound strange,… — Yōko Ogawa Copy Share Image
“He seemed convinced that children's questions were much more important than those of an adult. He preferred smart questions to smart answers.” — Yoko Ogawa Copy Share Image
“The room was filled with a kind of stillness. Not simply an absence of noise, but an accumulation of layers of silence...” — Yôko Ogawa Copy Share Image
The truly correct proof is one that strikes a harmonious balance between strength and flexibility. There are plenty of proofs that are technically correct… — Yoko Ogawa Copy Share Image
“The ancient Greeks thought there was no need to count something that was nothing. And since it was nothing, they held that it was… — Yōko Ogawa Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I wish I could describe how wonderful I feel in those few seconds from the time he spreads his arms above his head,… — Yōko Ogawa Copy Share Image
I am certain that children always know more than they are able to tell, and that makes the big difference between them and adults,… — Jacques Lusseyran Copy Share Image
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Plainly, the environment must be a living one, directed by a higher intelligence, arranged by an adult who is prepared for his mission. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Almost everywhere we find . . . the use of various coercive measures, to rid ourselves as quickly as possible of the child withinus--i.e.,… — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
Education, for most people, means trying to lead the child to resemble the typical adult of his society . . . but for me… — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
I do not believe in public shaming. I do believe that young adults go to college to learn things, and that this process will… — Gene Weingarten Copy Share Image
The Role of Deliberate Practice in the Acquisition of Expert Performance”: “The differences between expert performers and normal adults are not immutable, that is,… — K. Anders Ericsson Copy Share Image
Part of life is doing stuff that you don't want to do. — One Who Does Not Wish To Be Named Copy Share Image
He [an earnest young reporter] seemed to share the view of many intelligent, well-educated, well-meaning people that, while adult literature may aim to be… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
Kids, if anything, are harder to write for because they are a more discerning audience. They will not stay with you if you go… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image