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Good questions outrank easy answers.
Good questions outrank easy answers.
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.
Questions show the mind's range, and answers its subtlety.
Questions show the mind's range, and answers its subtlety.
No man really becomes a fool until he stops asking questions.
No man really becomes a fool until he stops asking questions.
[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.
It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.
It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.
It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.
It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.
The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions which have been hidden by the answers.
The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions which have been hidden by the answers.
