Source identified
Read & copy the quotation
“We hear only the questions to which we are capable of finding an answer.”
- Source
- The Joyful Wisdom
- Date
- 1910
- English wording
- Thomas Common — Translator; Paul V. Cohn — Poetry renderer; Maude D. Petre — Poetry renderer · from German
Meaning of “We hear only the questions to which we…”
The aphorism suggests that inquiry is limited by the conceptual capacities of the person asking, making intellectual growth partly a matter of becoming able to formulate and recognize better questions.
Where does it come from?
The Joyful Wisdom, aphorism 196; Thomas Common translation.
