“He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.”
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
“The man who asks a question is a fool for a minute, the man who does not ask is a fool for life.”
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Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher -551–-479 BCRelated quotes
“There are no foolish questions and no man becomes a fool until he has stopped asking questions.”
Charles Proteus Steinmetz (1865–1923) Mathematician and electrical engineer
[John J. B. Morgan and T. Webb Ewing, Making the Most of Your Life, 2005, 75 http://books.google.fr/books?id=5i-JlfkMEUUC&pg=PA75] <br class="br">Attributed <br class="br">Variant: No man really becomes a fool until he stops asking questions.
“The fool wonders, the wise man asks.”
Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881) British Conservative politician, writer, aristocrat and Prime Minister
Count Alarcos: A Tragedy Act IV, sc. i.
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George Santayana (1863–1952) 20th-century Spanish-American philosopher associated with Pragmatism
Source: Dialogues in Limbo (1926), Ch. 3, P. 57
William Barrett (philosopher) book Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy
and this shift is decisive.
Source: Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy (1958), Chapter Five, Christian sources, p. 84
Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962) American university teacher (1879-1962)
Fischerisms (1944)
Charles Caleb Colton (1777–1832) British priest and writer
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