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Naguib Mahfouz

"You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions."

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"The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose."

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"He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked."

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"I don't pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about."

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"Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are."

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"It is the answers, not the questions, that are embarrassing."

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"The world's philosophers and theologians searched for answers to the same mysteries."

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"Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers."

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"The reason I talk to myself is that I'm the only one whose answers I accept."

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"If you ask questions that interest you, you'll get answers that interest your audience."

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"We'd like to have immediate answers to all of our questions. I think medicine in particular. I found it frustrating as a physician sometimes to not be able to tell someone exactly why something was happening to them. There are still so many mysteries in medicine."

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