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Who dunit?

There are no foolish questions, only foolish silence.

Anon

He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.

Ancient Chinese Proverb

The fool wonders, the wise man asks.

Benjamin Disraeli

There are no foolish questions and no man becomes a fool until he has stopped asking questions.

Charles Steinmetz

The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he's one who asks the right questions.

Claude Levi-Strauss

The one real object of education is to have a man in the condition of continually asking questions.

Bishop Creighton

Don't ask silly questions if you don't want foolish answers.

C. Ryland

There are no foolish questions, just fools asking questions.

Dave Kifer

It is not every question that deserves an answer.

Publilius Syrus (First Century BC)

Bromidic though it may sound, some questions don't have answers, which is a terribly difficult lesson to learn.

Katharine Graham

If you ask me anything I don't know, I'm not going to answer.

Yogi Berra

Ask me no questions, and I'll tell you no fibs.

Oliver Goldsmith

Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are.

Oscar Wilde

Questions, bloody questions
I ain't got nothing to say
Questions, why all these questions

Steven Martin

It's hard for me to answer a question from someone who really doesn't care about the answer.

Charles Grodin

There are two sorts of people in the world: Those who listen and those who are thinking about what they are going to say next.

Paul Simon

I know I have not found the answers to all of my questions. The answers I have found only serve to raise a whole set of new questions. In some ways I am as confused as ever, but I believe that I am confused on a higher level and about more important things.

Anon

When I interview people, and they give me an immediate answer, they're often not thinking. So I'm silent. I wait. Because they think they have to keep answering. And it's the second train of thought that's the better answer.

Robin Leach

I keep six honest serving-men,
They taught me all I knew;
Their names are What and Why and When
And How and Where and Who.

Rudyard Kipling

Why should I care about posterity? What's posterity ever done for me?

Groucho Marks

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