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A fool may ask more questions in an hour than a wise man can answer in seven years.

English Proverb

No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious.

George Bernard Shaw

To Thales the primary question was not what do we know, but how do we know it.

Aristotle

[The great questions of the day] are not decided by speeches and majority votes, but by blood and iron.

Karl Otto von Schonhausen Bismarck

No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious.

Karl Otto von Schonhausen Bismarck

It is not every question that deserves an answer.

Syrus (Publilius Syrus)

Questions are never indiscreet. Answers sometimes are.

Syrus (Publilius Syrus)

A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.

Francis Bacon

Every clarification breeds new questions.

Arthur Bloch

... I believe the best test of a model is how well can the modeler answer the questions what do you know now that you did not know before and how can you find out if it is true?

Jim Bower

Questions focus our thinking. Ask empowering questions like: What's good about this? What's not perfect about it yet? What am I going to do next time? How can I do this and have fun doing it?

Charles Connolly

A timid question will always receive a confident answer.

Lord Darling

It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.

Lord Decouvertes

If you do not ask the right questions, you do not get the right answers. A question asked in the right way often points to its own answer. Asking questions is the A-B-C of diagnosis. Only the inquiring mind solves problems.

Edward Hodnett

The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions.

Anthony Jay

A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.

Joey Adams

It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.

James Thurber

Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.

Leo Tolstoy

You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.

Naguib Mahfouz

The question to everyone's answer is usually asked from within.

Steve Miller

Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing.

Engineer's Motto

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.

George Eliot

Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Good questions outrank easy answers.

Paul A Samuelson

Quality questions create a quality life. Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers.

Anthony Robbins

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