Sometimes attaining the deepest familiarity with a question is our best substitute for actually having the answer.
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I have always been much better at asking questions than knowing what the answers were.
We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.
We're terrified of not having the answers, and we would sometimes rather assert an incorrect answer than make our peace with the fact that we really don't know.
In the past, I always used to be looking for answers. Today, I know there are only questions. So I just live.
By asking a novel question that you don't know the answer to, you discover whether you can formulate a way of finding the answer, and you stretch your own mind, and very often you learn something new.
It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
It's always about finding the right balance between answering some questions and raising new ones to keep your story going.
The marvelous thing about a good question is that it shapes our identity as much by the asking as it does by the answering.
What I've come to know is that in life, it's not always the questions we ask, but rather our ability to hear the answers that truly enriches our understanding. Never, never stop learning.
We go through our lives in a continual dance of being filled with something that needs an answer, and then going out and finding that answer... only to find out that our answer wasn't quite the answer.