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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

To be or not to be that is the question. Whether it is nobler in the mind to suffer the stings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or take up arms against a sea of troubles, and by opposing them, end them. Hamlet

William Shakespeare

The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions which have been hidden by the answers.

James Baldwin

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

George Bernard Shaw

The wise man questions the wisdom of others because he questions his own, the foolish man, because it is different from his own.

Leo Stein

No man really becomes a fool until he stops asking questions.

Charles Steinmetz

An expert knows all the answers— if you ask the right questions.

Charles Anonymous

He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.

Charles Voltaire

To find the exact answer, one must first ask the exact question.

S. Tobin Webster

Questions show the mind's range, and answers its subtlety.

Joseph Joubert

It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes.

Henry David Thoreau

Reality is a question of perspective; the further you get from the past, the more concrete and plausible it seems—but as you approach the present, it inevitably seems incredible.

Salman Rushdie

I accept reality and dare not question it.

Walt Whitman

Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good questions.

Brendon Behan

The discussions of every age are filled with the issues on which its leading schools of thought differ. But the general intellectual atmosphere of the time is always determined by the views on which the opposing schools agree. They become the unspoken presuppositions of all thought, and common and unquestioningly accepted foundations on which all discussion proceeds.

F.a. Hayek

We are anxious when there is a dissonance between our "knowledge" and the perceivable facts. Since our "knowledge" is not to be doubted or questioned, it is the facts that have to be altered...

Nathaniel Branden

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