A person who is good at asking questions is like attacking a difficult tree. He must first change the subject and then the program. ——"Book of Rites·Xue Ji"

If you ask questions, you will be rich, but if you use it yourself, you will have less. ——"Shang Shu·Zhong Hui's Edict"

Agile and eager to learn, he is not ashamed to ask questions. ——"The Analects of Confucius·Gong Yechang"

It is easy to ask questions when studying. If you don't get a question once, you might as well ask again. ——Zheng Xie

The first sign of an educated mind is being good at asking questions. ——Plekhanov

You can’t succeed if you don’t learn, and you don’t know if you don’t ask. ——Wang Chong of the Han Dynasty, "Lunheng·Practical Knowledge"

A person who is eager to ask questions will only become a fool in five categories; a person who is ashamed to ask questions will be a fool for life. ——Anonymous

A gentleman must be good at asking questions, and asking and learning are complementary to each other. Without learning, there is no doubt; without questioning, there is no broad knowledge. ——Liu Kai

The starting point for thousands of inventions is a question. Beasts are inferior to humans, so I don't know how to ask. A wise man asks wisely, and a fool asks foolishly. Manpower is better than nature's work, just ask in every matter.

——Tao Xingzhi