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

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"There are no right answers to wrong questions."

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"I want to 'think' that I have all the answers. But if I 'think', I soon realize that what I thought to be answers were guesses. And if I 'think' yet again, I begin to realize that since God has all the answers He never hands me a guess."

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"Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are."

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"The critics tend to forget their own answers after a while."

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"I am very excited to be supporting one of the world's most visionary efforts to seek basic answers to some of the fundamental question about our universe and what other civilisations may exist elsewhere."

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Asa Don Brown

"Shakespeare has no answers for us at all."

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"And what I wanted to do was, I wanted to explore problems and areas where we didn't have answers. In fact, where we didn't even know the right questions to ask."

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"The liberally educated person is one who is able to resist the easy and preferred answers, not because he is obstinate but because he knows others worthy of consideration."

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"There are no pat answers - we're pushing through some new frontiers, and lessons of the past don't always apply."

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"I believe society has a right to defend itself, just as the individual has the right to attack that with which he disagrees."
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"I love Sufism as I love beautiful poetry, but it is not the answer. Sufism is like a mirage in the desert. It says to you, come and sit, relax and enjoy yourself for a while."
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