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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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