William Faulkner Quotes

Between knowing and not knowing is not wanting to know.

The reason you will not say it is, when you say it, even to yourself, you will know it is true.

I know what I'm doing. And I even know when I don't know what I'm doing. Then there are people who don't want to know that you know what you're doing.

You know the problem, we don't want to believe what we know.

We all not only could know everything. We do. We just tell ourselves we don't to make it all bearable.

I think the greatest illusion we have is that denial protects us. It's actually the biggest distortion and lie. In fact, staying asleep is what's killing us.

I often wonder which is best, to be honest about what you know in this world, or to continue to deny you know it and thereby fool yourself into believing that it does not exist!

I tell myself that I know you, and then when I think about it, I realize that I don't.

He who doubts, knows - knows as much as can be known.

Illusions are the truths we live by until we know better.

Once you realize something, then you can't pretend you don't know it any more.

If you know, say you know. If you don't know, say you don't know.

You knew the truth all along, Colie. That's all matters. You knew.

Now that I am dead, I know everything.

God forbid that Truth should be confined to Mathematical Demonstration!

There's the bullshit you know that you know; the bullshit you don't know and know you don't know; and the bullshit you just think you know but really don't.

Seeing is believing and believing is knowing and knowing beats unknowing and the unknown.

To know where a thing is we must have found it.

Most men would rather deny a hard truth than face it.

the problem with knowing is that it takes away the possibility of pretending!

I'm not a doom-and-gloom person. But I think there is a difference between transcendence and denial, and much of the Western world is in major denial today.

To know is always better, no matter what the answer might be.

You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.

Is Knowledge knowable? If not, how do we know?

Ultimately, all things are known because you want to believe you know.