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“Asking questions were the most important thing.” Franz Kafka, The Trial
“For an answer which cannot be expressed the question too cannot be expressed. The riddle does not exist. If a question can be put at all, then it can also be answered.” Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
“'it depends' is almost always the right answer in any big question.” Linus Torvalds
“Plain question and plain answer make the shortest road out of most perplexities.” Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi
“Human reason, in one sphere of its cognition, is called upon to consider questions, which it cannot decline, as they are presented by its own nature, but which it cannot answer, as they transcend every faculty of the mind.” Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason
“I always thirsted for knowledge, I have always been full of questions.” Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha
“Perhaps all the questions we ask of love, to measure, test, probe, and save it, have the additional effect of cutting it short.” Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
“What is wrong is that we do not ask what is right.” G. K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World
“Every why hath a wherefore.” William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors
“Ask no questions, and you'll be told no lies.” Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
“The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe.” Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time
“If you don't want a man unhappy politically, don't give him two sides to a question to worry him; give him one. Better yet, give him none. Let him forget there is such a thing as war.” Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
“She didn't want to know how a thing was done, but why. That can be embarrassing.” Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
“We feel that even if all possible scientific questions be answered, the problems of life have still not been touched at all.” Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
“You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.” Albert Camus, The Fall
“Well, here we are, Mr. Pilgrim, trapped in the amber of this moment. There is no why.” Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
“There are no ugly questions except those clothed in condescension.” John Steinbeck, East of Eden
“There are many things in this world that a child must not ask about.” Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter
“Her reputation of reading a great deal hung about her like the cloudy envelope of a goddess in an epic; it was supposed to engender difficult questions and to keep the conversation at a low temperature.” Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady
“He was never disturbed over why a thing happened. How it happened was sufficient for him.” Jack London, White Fang

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