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To Thales the primary question was not what do we know, but how do we know it. - Aristotle, "The Mathematical Intelligencer" (vol. 6, no. 3) A prudent question is one half of wisdom. - Francis Bacon A sudden, bold, and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open. - Francis Bacon A woman questions the man who loves exactly as a judge questions a criminal. This being so, a flash of the eye, a mere word, an inflection of the voice or a moment's hesitation suffice to expose the fact, betrayal or crime he is attempting to conceal. - Honore de Balzac [The great questions of the day] are not decided by speeches and majority votes, but by blood and iron. - Karl Otto von Schonhausen Bismarck, Declaration to the Prussian House of Delegates Inquiry is fatal to certainty. - William James (Will) Durant Let us interrogate the great apparition, that shines so peacefully around us. - Ralph Waldo Emerson Anybody can decide a question if only a single principle is in controversy. - Justice Felix Frankfurter Questions show the mind's range, and answers, its subtlety. - Joseph Joubert Having someone wonder where you are when you don't come home at night is a very old human need. - Margaret Mead If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers. - Thomas Pynchon Be ever questioning. - Hyman Rickover Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers. - Rainer Marie Rilke I think we ought to have a new rule: You can ask two questions, and then we can pick the one we want to answer. - Donald Rumsfeld, at a news briefing To be able to ask a question clearly is two-thirds of the way to getting it answered. - John Ruskin In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted. - Bertrand Arthur William Russell By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him at all. - George Santayana No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious. - George Bernard Shaw You see things; and you say, "Why"; But I dream things that never were; and I say, "Why not?" - George Bernard Shaw Sometimes I wonder and then I don't know. - John Lawrence Sullivan It is not every question that deserves an answer. - Syrus (Publilius Syrus), Maxims It is better to ask some of the questions than to know all the answers. - James Thurber In examinations, the foolish ask questions the wise cannot answer. - Oscar Wilde (Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde) Questions are never indiscreet. Answers sometimes are. - Oscar Wilde (Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde) To become rich is easy. Much harder is to solve the riddles of of the heart. - Cao Xuequin
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