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A child can ask a thousand questions that the wisest man cannot answer.

Jacob Abbott

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Jacob Abbott
American - Writer
November 14, 1803 - October 31, 1879

It is commonly, but erroneously, believed that it is easy to ask questions. A fool, it is said, can ask questions that a wise man cannot answer. The fact is that a wise man can answer many questions that a fool cannot ask.

Cassius Jackson Keyser

When I get the questions, I answer what I can answer. If they ask me about the match, I cannot really say that I like eating bananas.

Caroline Wozniacki

Remember that the greatest fool in the world may ask more than the wisest man can answer.

Bryant H. McGill

Most people ask questions because they want to know the answer; lawyers are trained never to ask questions unless they already know the answer.

Lani Guinier

Writers always sound insufferably smug when they sit back and assert that their job is only to ask questions and not to answer them. But, in good part, it is true. And once you become committed to one particular answer, your freedom to ask new questions is seriously impaired.

David Hare

Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.

Charles Caleb Colton

In examinations the foolish ask questions that the wise cannot answer.

Oscar Wilde

There exist a lot of questions that the fools can ask, and the intelligent cannot answer.

George Polya

My rule in making up examination questions is to ask questions which I can't myself answer. It astounds me to see how some of my students answer questions which would play the deuce with me.

Henry Adams

There are many questions which fools can ask that wise men cannot answer.

George Polya

but you can't spend your whole life hoping people will ask you the right questions. you must learn to love and answer the questions they already ask.

Elizabeth McCracken

Younger generations, they ask more questions, like on a recipe. But they ask them online. If my staff doesn't know how to answer it, I will answer.

Lidia Bastianich

Indeed, the only truly serious questions are ones that even a child can formulate. Only the most naive of questions are truly serious. They are the questions with no answers. A question with no answer is a barrier that cannot be breached. In other words, it is questions with no answers that set the limit of human possibilities, describe the boundaries of human existence.

Milan Kundera

A real man won't ask or answer questions about another man's money.

Damon Dash

I was the youngest child. I got to be myself and ask stupid questions because I was the youngest. It is so important to listen to the questions children have and reward them for the wondrous questions they ask.

May-Britt Moser

'Maybe.' There's our word. The wisest answer to ultimate questions.

Robert Fulghum

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