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Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
Questions are never indiscreet. Answers sometimes are.
Questions are never indiscreet. Answers sometimes are.
A timid question will always receive a confident answer.
A timid question will always receive a confident answer.
No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer
is obvious.
No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer
is obvious.
Questions show the mind's range, and answers its subtlety.
Questions show the mind's range, and answers its subtlety.
The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions which have been hidden by the answers.
The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions which have been hidden by the answers.
A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.
It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.
No question is so difficult to answer as that which the answer is obvious.
No question is so difficult to answer as that which the answer is obvious.
