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It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.
It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.
A timid question will always receive a confident answer.
A timid question will always receive a confident answer.
Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
To Thales the primary question was not what do we know, but how
do we know it.
To Thales the primary question was not what do we know, but how
do we know it.
It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
[The great questions of the day] are not decided by speeches and
majority votes, but by blood and iron.
[The great questions of the day] are not decided by speeches and
majority votes, but by blood and iron.
An expert knows all the answers -- if you ask the right questions.
An expert knows all the answers -- if you ask the right questions.
Good questions outrank easy answers.
Good questions outrank easy answers.
To find the exact answer, one must first ask the exact question.
To find the exact answer, one must first ask the exact question.