Deep wisdom may lie in maintaining wonder rather than accumulating answers

Evidence

And his Book of Questions offers the perfect closing spirit for this entire curriculum: for what have we been doing, all along, but WONDERING — asking the great questions that human beings everywhere have always asked, and finding that every people on earth has answered them with stories of astonishing beauty and depth? Neruda reminds us that the deepest wisdom may lie not in having all the answers, but in never losing the child’s capacity for WONDER and QUESTIONING. — , A Year of World Stories, 10898

Categorization

• SEED: Positions unanswerable questioning itself as the deepest form of wisdom — a counterintuitive frame usable in writing about curiosity, science, or education.
• XREF: connects to: Intellectual work must produce new knowledges rather than recirculate known conclusions; Akan epistemology holds that wisdom is distributed and never owned — , A Year of World Stories, 3781; Being skeptical can blind one to the possibility of enlightenment. — Dan Harris, 10 percent Happier, 1099 (+12 more)

Broader Connections

• Being skeptical can blind one to the possibility of enlightenment. #corroborates (0.60) — Dan Harris, 10 percent Happier, 1099
• Knowing more sometimes shrinks the sense of the unknown rather than expanding it. #qualifies (0.60) — Karl Ove Knausgaard, A Death in the Family, 1203
• Natural thinkers accept reality without doubt, seeking fullness of lived life #corroborates (0.60)
• Human knowledge fails to answer life’s fundamental questions. #corroborates (0.50) — Leo Tolstoy, A Confession, 64
• Knowledge becomes less clear as it approaches life’s big questions. #corroborates (0.50) — Leo Tolstoy, A Confession, 66
• Creative thought requires an initial silence that clears prior mental assumptions #corroborates (0.50) — George Michelsen Foy, Zero Decibels, 453
• Mindfulness allows for thoughtful responses instead of mindless reactions. #corroborates (0.50) — Dan Harris, 10 percent Happier, 1132