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He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; he who does not ask a question remains a fool forever.
-Chinese Proverb
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Man who waits for roast duck to fly into mouth must wait very, very long time.
-Chinese Proverb
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Better to ask twice than to lose your way once.
-Danish proverb
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Great things are only possible with outrageous requests.
-Thea Alexander
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Man, if you gotta ask you'll never know.
-Louis Armstrong
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The simplest questions are the most profound.
Where were you born?
Where is your home?
Where are you going?
What are you doing?
Think about these once in awhile, and watch your answers change.
-Richard Bach
Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah, 1977
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You don't want a million answers as much as you want a few forever questions. The questions are diamonds you hold in the light. Study a lifetime and you see different colours from the same jewel. The same questions, asked again, bring you just the answers you need just the minute you need them.
-Richard Bach
Running from Safety, 2000
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Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much.
-Francis Bacon
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A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.
-Francis Bacon
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A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
-Francis Bacon
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Ask with urgency and passion.
-Arthur Balfour
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Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why.
-Bernard Baruch
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Ask, and it shall be given you; seek; and you shall find; knock and it shall be opened unto you. For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened. Matthew 7:7-8
-Bible
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The great questions of the day are not decided by speeches and majority votes, but by blood and iron.
-Otto von Bismarck
Speech Declaration to the Prussian House of Delegates, September 29, 1862
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Every clarification breeds new questions.
-Arthur Bloch
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It is the nature, and the advantage, of strong people that they can bring out the crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them. The weak always have to decide between alternatives that are not their own.
-Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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... 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
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It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-Jacob Bronowski
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You don't always get what you ask for, but you never get what you don't ask for... unless it's contagious!
-Franklyn Broude
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The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality.
-Edmund Burke
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For every why he had a wherefore.
-Samuel Butler
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Ask the right questions. The fastest way to change the answers you receive
-Lee J. Colan
107 Ways to Stick to It
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Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always answering questions when the chief relish of a life is to go on asking them.
-Frank Moore Colby
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Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.
-Charles Caleb Colton
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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
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Books about Questions
