QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

There is a saying that goes something like this: ‘Surround yourself with those who will answer your questions and question your answers.’ That is wise counsel at first read. But I have found that both halves of this statement can be difficult on our puckered-up ego. This is how: To ask a question is to assume we don’t have all the answers, or at least need more enlightenment on a subject. The second half of the statement gets our hackles up when someone might question our answers, since we already know almost everything there is know, how could anyone question it? Pride is a terrible thing to try to manage… but we must… or take a fall.

Richard Feynman (1918-1988): The Nobel Prize-winning physicist famously said, “I would rather have questions that can’t be answered than answers that can’t be questioned”.

“If I tell you, you won’t believe me. And if I ask you a question, you won’t answer.” Jesus