If you gotta ask, you'll never know.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- True understanding comes from experience, not questions.
- In plain terms
- If you need to ask, you will never truly understand.
- What can you take from it?
- Experience teaches what questions cannot.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- What can't be explained?
- How do you learn best?
Another view
Questions are necessary for learning new things.
More from Louis Armstrong
All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song.
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