Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
Interpretation
Imagination drives inquiry while reason provides answers.
This quote emphasizes the vital role of imagination in the process of exploration and understanding. While reason can provide clarity and solutions to problems, it is the imaginative capacity of the mind that generates the questions and inquiries that lead to deeper knowledge and discovery.
In practice
In a lecture on creativity, one might say, 'As Ralph W. Gerard stated, reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.'
Someone asked the Swiss physician & author Paul Tournier how he helped his patients get rid of their fears. He replied, 'I don't. Everything that's worthwhile in life is scary. Choosing a school, choosing a career, getting married, having kids--all those things are scary. If it is not fearful, it is not worthwhile.'
Age brings a freedom. When you're young, you're much more subject to the idea of what feminine is or how you should look or how you should behave.
All things to do with drag are inherently therapeutic because the realization of your own insanity is the beginning of sanity.
Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.
People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a shelf.
There are no means of attaining faith and certainty except through the Qur'an.
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