Chinese Proverb Quotes

Remember that the greatest fool in the world may ask more than the wisest man can answer.

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.

There is always a place I can take someone's curiosity and land where they end up enlightened when we're done. That's my challenge as an educator. No one is dumb who is curious. The people who don't ask questions remain clueless throughout their lives.

The man who realizes his ignorance has taken the first step toward knowledge.

It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

The more I read, the more I realise what I don't know.

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

Vast is the field of Science. The more a man knows, the more he will find he has to know.

True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.

The first step towards knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.

Curiosity killed the cat, but where human beings are concerned, the only thing a healthy curiosity can kill is ignorance.

The more we know, the more we realize there is to know.

The more you learn, the more you realize how much there is to learn.

We get wise by asking questions, and even if these are not answered, we get wise, for a well-packed question carries its answer on its back as a snail carries its shell.

Tell me, O wise man, how hast thou come to know so astonishingly much? By never being ashamed to ask of those that knew!

Men are; more inclined to ask curious questions than to obtain necessary instruction.

A person soon learns how little he knows when a child begins to ask questions.

He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.

Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.

If we become increasingly humble about how little we know, we may be more eager to search.

One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge.

The learned is happy, nature to explore; The fool is happy, that he knows no more.

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.

There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.

The fool wonders, the wise man asks.