Warren Berger Quotes

United States, Journalist
October 20, 1958

Warren Berger is an American journalist and host of the website "AMoreBeautifulQuestion.com." Questioning is the topic of his two most recent books, The Book of Beautiful Questions (2018) and A More Beautiful Question (2014), both published by Bloomsbury. Berger has written five other books (two as co-author) and numerous articles, primarily on innovation, creativity, design, mass media, and popular culture.

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We have an education and business culture that tends to reward quick factual answers over imaginative inquiry. Questioning isn’t encouraged - it is barely tolerated.

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Fear is the enemy of curiosity.

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- Enemy
- Curiosity

If we’re born to inquire, then why must it be taught?

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- Born
- Taught
A beautiful question shifts the way we think about something and often sets in motion a process than can result in change. Entrepreneurs-o r at least the successful ones-do a great job asking beautiful questions. They almost have no choice -their whole reason for being is to disrupt, innovate, solve a problem no one else is solving.

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Designers can show us a better future, can present us with all kinds of new possibilities so that we can decide: Is this what we want? Before any of that can happen, though, the designer must first commit—by taking what is just a faint glimmer in the mind’s eye and giving it shape and life.

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- Future
- Want
- Giving
A beautiful question is an ambitious yet actionable question that can begin to shift the way we perceive or think about something - and that might serve as a catalyst to bring about change.

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