A Quote by Milan Kundera

Indeed, the only truly serious questions are ones that even a child can formulate. Only the most naive of questions are truly serious.

Milan Kundera

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Milan Kundera
Czechoslovakian - Writer
Born: April 1, 1929

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

Only the most naive of questions are truly serious.

Milan Kundera

The outcome of any serious research can only be to make two questions grow where only one grew before.

Thorstein Veblen

There are naive questions, tedious questions, ill-phrased questions, questions put after inadequate self-criticism. But every question is a cry to understand the world. There is no such thing as a dumb question.

Carl Sagan

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Roger Clemens

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Brian Lamb

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Nick Sagan

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Astrid Kirchherr

An almost indispensable skill for any creative person is the ability to pose the right questions. Creative people identify promising, exciting, and, most important, accessible routes to progress - and eventually formulate the questions correctly.

Lisa Randall

To search for unasked questions, plus questions to put to already acquired but unsought answers, it is vital to give full play to the imagination. That is the way to create truly original science.

E. O. Wilson

The most important questions of life are indeed, for the most part, really only problems of probability.

Pierre-Simon Laplace

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William Maxwell

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Yolanda Adams

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Ingrid Bengis

Current intelligence-testing practices require examinees to answer but not to pose questions. In requiring only the answering of questions, these tests are missing a vital half of intelligence- the asking of questions.