An approximate answer to the right question is worth far more than a precise answer to the wrong one.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Far better an approximate answer to the right question, which is often vague, than the exact answer to the wrong question, which can always be made precise.
An approximate answer to the right problem is worth a good deal more than an exact answer to an approximate problem.
Answers are not obtained by putting the wrong question and thereby begging the real one.
It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.
A wise man's question contains half the answer.
There aren't always a hell of a lot of absolutely right answers out there.
No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious.
There's no sense in being precise when you don't even know what you're talking about.
What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
Try to guess my answer to that question, however temptingly you pose it.
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