Famous aphorisms about asking:

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

2. It’s easy to ask questions when reading. If you can’t ask a question once, you might as well ask again. ——Zheng Xie

3. A person who is eager to ask questions is only five kinds of fools; a person who is ashamed to ask questions will be a fool for life. ——Anonymous

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

5. 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, a fool asks foolishly. Manpower is better than nature's work, just ask in every matter. ——Tao Xingzhi

6. Know and be willing to ask questions, and then you can learn. ——"Xunzi"

7. Be sensitive and eager to learn, and not ashamed to ask questions. ——"The Analects of Confucius·Gongye Chang"

8. Those who don't know enough are eager to learn, and those who are ashamed to ask are complacent. ——Lin Bu's "Records of Saving Hearts"

9. 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"

10. It is false to use knowledge too much for decoration; it is a scholar's eccentricity to judge things entirely based on the rules of knowledge. ——Bacon