Francis Bacon
Philosopher, Statesman
"Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much."
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Soren Kierkegaard
Philosopher, Theologian
"Who am I? How did I come into the world? Why was I not consulted?"
Euripides
Playwright
"Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing."
Arthur Miller
Playwright, Essayist
"The job is to ask questions - it always was - and to ask them as inexorably as I can. And to face the absence of precise answers with a certain humility."
George Bernard Shaw
Playwright, Critic
"No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious."
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"If you want a wise answer, ask a reasonable question."
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"All knowledge, the totality of all questions and answers, is contained in the dog."
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"There are no right answers to wrong questions."
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"We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong."
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"Why, in a country of free speech, are there phone bills?"
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"Indeed, the only truly serious questions are ones that even a child can formulate. Only the most naive of questions are truly serious. They are the questions with no answers. A question with no answer is a barrier that cannot be breached. In other words, it is questions with no answers that set the limit of human possibilities, describe the boundaries of human existence."
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"Only the most naive of questions are truly serious."
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"By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him at all."
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"Indeed, the only truly serious questions are ones that even a child can formulate. Only the most naive of questions are truly serious."
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"A priest's life is spent between question and answer-- or between a question and the attempt to answer it. The question is the summary of the spiritual life."
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"My rule in making up examination questions is to ask questions which I can't myself answer. It astounds me to see how some of my students answer questions which would play the deuce with me."
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"It's the little questions from women about tappets that finally push men over the edge."
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"Eternity is the place where questions and answers become one."
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"I wasn't the cutest or the most talented, but I could get through the question-and-answer period."
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"Never, never, never on cross-examination ask a witness a question you don't already know the answer to, was a tenet I absorbed with my baby food. Do it, and you'll often get an answer you don't want."
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"My favorite question that is asked only of women is, 'What do you do with yourself all day?' The only possible answer is, 'Make nuclear bombs in my bathroom. Just little ones, though."
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