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All the quotes in this section were used to begin chapters in The
Art of the Question: A Guide to Short-Term, Question-Centered
Therapy (John Wiley & Sons. 1997). I find these quotes both
beguiling and inspiring. I hope you do, too.
Quoted in
The Art of the Question
Rainer Maria Rilke
“Be patient toward
all that is unresolved in your heart.
Try to love the
questions themselves.
Do not now seek the
answers, which cannot be given because you would not be able to live
them.
And the point is to
live everything. Live the question
now.
Perhaps you will
then gradually without noticing it,
Live along some
distant day into the answers."
Neil Postman
“Everything we know
has its origins in questions. Questions, we might say, are the
principal intellectual instruments available to human beings.”
Suzanne Langer
“…answers establish
an edifice of facts; but questions… make the frame in which (the)
picture of facts is plotted. They make more than the frame, they
give the angle of perspective, the palette, the style in which the
picture is drawn… “
Terry Winograd & Fernando Flores
“Ultimately, we are
seeking a better understanding of what it means to be human. In this
quest, progress is not made by finding the ‘right’ answers, but by
asking meaningful questions…”
Chinese poet, Anonymous
“We knock upon
silence for an answering music.
Jay Efran, Michael Lukens, Robert Lukens
(George Kelly)
“Symptoms are not
malignancies that attack from the outside but ‘urgent questions,
behaviorally expressed, which have somehow lost the threads that lead
either to answers or to better questions.’” (Kelly)
Edward de Bono
“Asking a question
is the simplest way of focusing thinking . . . asking the right
question may be the most important part of thinking.”
Joseph Campbell
“The big question
is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty ‘yes’ to your
adventure.”
Peter B. Bloom & Milton H. Erickson
Q. “What one word
should I carry with me for the rest of my life?”
— Peter B. Bloom
A. “Observation!”
— Milton H. Erickson
Abraham Heschel
“How shall I live
the life that I am?”
Margaret Mead
“We grow up never
questioning that which is unquestioned by those around us.”
Gregory Bateson
“What des e.e.
cummings say? ‘Always the most beautiful answer, who asks the more
difficult question.’ You see I am not asking another question each
time. I am making the same question bigger.”
Bill Moyers
“The most
interesting question in the world to me is, ‘What makes a life?’”
Humberto R. Maturana & Francisco J. Varela
“The solution,
like all solutions to apparent contradictions, lies in moving away
from the opposition and changing the nature of the question, to
embrace a broader context.”
Hillel
“If I am not for
myself, who will be for me? If I am for myself only, what am I? If
not now, when?”
Jack Kornfield
“In the end these
things matter most: How well did you love? How fully did you live?
How deeply did you learn to let go?”
Ionesco
“It is not the
answer that enlightens, but the question.”
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