“The man who asks a question is a fool for a minute, the man who does not ask is a fool for life.”
“He is a fool who looks at the fruit of lofty trees, but does not measure their height.”
Stultus est qui fructus magnarum arborum spectat, altitudinem non metitur.
VII, 8.
Historiarum Alexandri Magni Macedonis Libri Qui Supersunt, Book VII
“He who loves not wine, women and song remains a fool his whole life long.”
Variant: He who loves not Wine, Women and Song
Remains a fool his whole life long
“There are no foolish questions and no man becomes a fool until he has stopped asking questions.”
[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]
Attributed
Variant: No man really becomes a fool until he stops asking questions.
Source: Epigrams, p. 345
“He, who will not reason, is a bigot; he, who cannot, is a fool; and he, who dares not, is a slave.”
in Academical Questions (1805), Preface, p. 15 http://books.google.com/books?id=U9FOAAAAYAAJ&pg=PR15
The Philosophical Emperor, a Political Experiment, or, The Progress of a False Position: (1841)
Context: His majesty recollected the celebrated quack doctor, who when asked why his patrons were more numerous than those of regular practitioners, replied, that he was patronised by the fools, who are numerous in every community, while regular physicians are patronised by the wise, who are few. His majesty could not see why the principle was not applicable to politics. He resolved to try it. He would so govern as to be patronised by the numerous class, and leave the desires of the few to be regarded by some future emperor, who should choose to make so unpromising an experiment.
