Raised by Wolves, season 1, episode 4. Character Mother.
“It never ceases to amaze me how often I ask people, “What do you really want?”
and they look at me blankly, unable to articulate the answer. It’s not that they don’t want things, it’s just that they don’t have a high level of clarity regarding the matter.”
Popular Quotes, Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less, Journal Articles
“People ask all the time how I'm doing, but the truth is, they don't really want to know.”
Source: Handle with Care
2007-11-12
Countdown with Keith Olbermann
MSNBC
Television
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21771581/
explaining to his ombudsman, Laurie Dhue, what to do about mail complaining about the low quality of Fox News Channel material; November 2007
“Now, that we do not really know of what sort each thing is, or is not, has often been shown.”
Source Book in Ancient Philosophy (1907), The Fragments
The Careful Use of Compliments, chapter 2.
The Sunday Philosophy Club series
Teaching as a Subversive Activity (1969)
Context: We can justify the list we will submit on several grounds. First, many of these questions have literally been asked by children and adolescents when they are permitted to respond freely to the challenge of "What's Worth Knowing?" Second, some of these questions are based on careful listening to students, even though they were not at the time asking questions. Very often children make declarative statements about things when they really mean only to elicit an informative response. In some cases, they do this because they have learned from adults that it is "better" to pretend that you know than to admit that you don't. (An old aphorism describing this process goes: Children enter school as question marks and leave as periods.) In other cases they do this because they do not know how to ask certain kinds of questions. In any event, a simple translation of their declarative utterances will sometimes produce a great variety of deeply felt questions.
Interview with Richard Dawkins (5:12) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLctxRf7duU
“If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.”
