My Own Pearls Of Wisdom

There is no great difficulty in asking a question; rather what is difficult is finding the passion required to answer it.

Kenny S. R. Costa

Background

This is one of the earliest quotes I have ever written, and upon reflection, I might have reworded it. I’m finding that asking the right question is often the most difficult part of intellectual endeavours.

The purpose of this quote, when I wrote it was a reaction to the lethargy I found in many of my peers and university students, who seemed to have no intellectual curiosity. Five minutes after asking one question, they were asking another, unrelated to the first, and leaving the first forgotten and unfulfilled. This is not to say they were not smart or intelligent, but they just didn’t seem to care about answering the questions they would often bring up.

I guess the quote above is just a call to find the zeal that is required to answer the questions each of us already have.

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