“We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers.”

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

As quoted in SQ : Connecting with Our Spiritual Intelligence (2000) by Danah Zohar and Ian Marshall, p. 15

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Abraham Joshua Heschel 130

Polish-American Conservative Judaism Rabbi 1907–1972

Madeleine L'Engle (1918–2007) American writer

The Rock that Is Higher (1993)

“There were a significant number of questions I had asked myself and, as you know, when you really ask yourself the questions, you give better answers than if we merely read the conventional answers.”

Albert Messiah (1921–2013) French physicist

Il y avait un nombre important de questions que je m'étais posées et, comme vous le savez, lorsqu'on se pose vraiment les questions, on donne de meilleures réponses que si l'on se contente de lire les réponses convenues.
explaining how he came to write his textbook on quantum mechanics, in Descente au coeur de la matière, an interview edited by [Stéphane Deligeorges, Le monde quantique, Editions du Seuil, Sciences et Avenir, 1984, 2020089084, 111]

“It's the questions we ask, the journey we take to get to where we are going that is more important than the actual answer.”

Charles de Lint (1951) author

"Paperjack" in Dreams Underfoot : The Newford Collection (2003), p. 396
Context: It's the questions we ask, the journey we take to get to where we are going that is more important than the actual answer. It's good to have mysteries. It reminds us that there's more to the world than just making do and having a bit of fun.