More on Koans

The craftsman bowed. [...] "Child, who has taught you?"

"Me? I don't know anything. I just ask questions."

"Then go on asking questions [...]. And remember that it is better not to know and to know that one does not know, than presumptuously to attribute some random meaning to the symbols."

(Isha Schwaller de Lubicz, Her-Bak ("Chick-Pea"), the Living Face of Ancient Egypt XXIII, as translated by Charles Edgar Sprague.)

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In Sais, the statue of Athena—whom the Egyptians believe to be Isis—carried the inscription, "I am all that has been, and is, and shall be, and my robe no mortal has yet uncovered."

(Plutarch, Isis and Osiris IX.)

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The truth is, O men of Athens, that God only is wise, and in [the oracle by which Apollo said Socrates is the wisest of men,] He means to say that the wisdom of men is little or nothing: He is not speaking of Socrates, He is only using my name as an illustration, as if He said, "He, O men, is the wisest, who, like Socrates, knows that his wisdom is in truth worth nothing."

(Socrates, as quoted by Plato, Apology.)

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Often it is said that it is more important to ask the right questions than to give the right answers, and I feel like I am slowly understanding why this is and must be so...