Up: [[Questioning]] > [!orbit] [[Alan Lightman]] in *A Sense of the Mysterious* > Just as the world needs both certainty and uncertainty, the world needs questions with answers and questions without answers. (p. 20) > [!orbit] Sam Keen > What shapes our lives are the questions we ask, refuse to ask, or never think to ask. > [!Orbit] Elie Wiesel > People are united by questions. It’s the answers that divide them. > [!Orbit] Carl Sagan, his last interview, 1996 on Charlie Rose > If we are not able to ask skeptical questions… to interrogate those who tell us something is true, to be skeptical of those in authority… then we are up for grabs for the next charlatan, political or religious, who comes ambling along. > [!Orbit] Rick Ridgeway, mountaineer and adventurer > The best journeys are the ones that answer questions that at the outset you never even thought to ask. > [!Orbit] [[Mary Oliver]] in *A Thousand Mornings: Poems* > The man who has many answers > is often found > in the theaters of information > where he offers, graciously, > his deep findings. > > While the man who has only questions, > to comfort himself, makes music. > [!orbit] Marc Champagne > A single question has the power to change your life. > [!Orbit] Ursula K. Le Guin > The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself. > [!orbit] Alan Watts > Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way. > [!Orbit] Ralph Waldo Emerson > When we have arrived at the question, the answer is already near. > [!Orbit] [[Rainer Maria Rilke]] in *Letters to a Young Poet* > We should try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are written in a very foreign tongue.