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The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity.: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
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If your imagination leads you to understand how quickly people grant your requests when those requests appeal to their self-interest, you can have practically anything you go after.: Napoleon Hill
The fathers of the field had been pretty confusing: John von Neumann speculated about computers and the human brain in analogies sufficiently wild to be worthy of a medieval thinker, and Alan Turing thought about criteria to settle the question of whether machines can think, a question of which we now know that it is about as relevant as the question of whether submarines can swim.: E. W. Dijkstra, at the ACN South Central Regional Conference, Austin, Texas, 16 to 18 November 1984
I don't believe in total freedom for the artist. Left on his own, free to do anything he likes, the artist ends up doing nothing at all. If there's one thing that's dangerous for an artist, it's precisely this question of total freedom, waiting for inspiration and all the rest of it.: Federico Fellini (1920 - 1993)
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A young man is embarrassed to question an older one.: Homer (800 BC - 700 BC), The Odyssey
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Time will explain it all. He is a talker, and needs no questioning before he speaks.: Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC), Aeolus
There are two sides to every question.: Protagoras (485 BC - 421 BC), from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
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The partisan, when he is engaged in a dispute, cares nothing about the rights of the question, but is anxious only to convince his hearers of his own assertions.: Plato (427 BC - 347 BC), Dialogues, Phaedo
It is not every question that deserves an answer.: Publilius Syrus (~100 BC), Maxims
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A fair request should be followed by the deed in silence.: Dante Alighieri (1265 - 1321), The Divine Comedy
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