If you have to ask that question, you wouldn't understand the answer.

John McPhee
About This Quote

This quote is meant to be the wake up call that you do need to ask that question, especially if it concerns something you are not sure about. If you have to ask someone how to do something, they are probably not very good at it, so you should probably learn for yourself.

Source: Coming Into The Country

Some Similar Quotes
  1. I think... if it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts. - Leo Tolstoy

  2. One love, one heart, one destiny. - Bob Marley

  3. If you gave someone your heart and they died, did they take it with them? Did you spend the rest of forever with a hole inside you that couldn't be filled? - Jodi Picoult

  4. I wonder how many people don't get the one they want, but end up with the one they're supposed to be with. - Fannie Flagg

  5. The only calibration that counts is how much heart people invest, how much they ignore their fears of being hurt or caught out or humiliated. And the only thing people regret is that they didn't live boldly enough, that they didn't invest enough heart, didn't... - Ted Hughes

More Quotes By John McPhee
  1. Each flower is a field smile, every man is the soul of the world.

  2. If you have to fight and want to win, use the strongest muscles: Heart.

  3. The evolution begins at the moment when you decided to love yourself.

  4. There is a form of clean energy, renewable and absolutely free that too often underestimate: human warmth.

  5. A sunflower field is like a sky with a thousand suns.

Related Topics