I wanted to ask a thousand questions, but there was no one to ask. Besides I knew that people only told lies to children-lies about everything from soup to Santa Claus.

Never mind. Little girls shouldn't ask questions,' returned Jo sharply.
Now if there is anything mortifying to our feelings when we are young, it is to be told that; and to be bidden to 'run away, dear' is still more trying to us.

One shouldn’t be too inquisitive in life
Either about God’s secrets or one’s wife.
You’ll find God’s plenty all you could desire;
Of the remainder, better not enquire.

There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.

There are three things I have learned never to discuss with people... Religion, Politics, and The Great Pumpkin.

Educational bureaucracies dull a child’s questing sensitivity.

Concerning that which cannot be talked about, we should not say anything.

It isn't the sort of thing you ask questions about, because the answers are not usually answers you want to know.

Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

The wisest writers devote themselves to what a man ought to know, without asking what a child is capable of learning.

Put simply, you can’t ask your unconscious a question, and expect a direct answer — a neat, tidy little verbal message.

But when people are past a certain age, you sort of stop asking them why they do things. It feels dangerous.

Each time one prematurely teaches a child something he could have discovered himself, that child is kept from inventing it and consequently from understanding it completely.

My parents raised me that you never ask people about their reproductive plans. “You don’t know their situation,” my mom would say. I considered it such an impolite question that for years I didn’t even ask myself. Thirty-five turned into forty faster than McDonald’s food turns into cold nonfood.