Source: All the Names (1997), p. 48
“Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.”
Source: Contributions to Modern Economics (1978), Chapter 7, Marx, Marshall and Keynes, p. 75
“Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing.”
Source: The Chronicles of Prydain (1964–1968), Book I: The Book of Three (1964), Chapter 1
Context: "Why?" Dallben interrupted. "In some cases," he said, "we learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself."
“(In answer to the question ‘How would you describe yourself in three words?’) Short and balding.”
TV Series and Specials (Includes DVDs), Mind Control (1999–2000) or Inside Your Mind on DVD
Letter Four (16 July 1903)
Variant: Have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don't search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer. (Translation by Stephen Mitchell)
Letters to a Young Poet (1934)
Context: Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.
