We in the Handdara don't want answers. It's hard to avoid them, but we try to.
Faxe, I don't think I understand.
Well, we come here to the Fastnesses mostly to learn what questions not to ask.
But you're the Answerers!
You don't see, Genry, why we perfected and practice Foretelling?
No—
To exhibit the perfect uselessness of knowing the answer to the wrong question.

Chapter 5 The Domestication of Hunch (pp. 69-70) - Hainish Cycle - The Left Hand of Darkness (1969)