William Faulkner Quotes

For some time now, I have been encouraging people to ask themselves why things look the way they do.

What is "this drive"? It's the tendency to not simply accept things as they are but to want to think about them, to understand them. To not be content to simply feel sad but to ask what sadness means. To not just get a bus pass but to think about the economic reasons getting a bus pass makes sense. I call this tendency the intellectual.

Whatever we think about and question a lot becomes questionable.

Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.

The question is just as important as the answer.

You gotta ask 'why' questions. 'Why did you do this?' A 'why' question you can't answer with one word.

The basic drive behind real philosophy is curiosity about the world, not interest in the writings of philosophers.

Millions saw the apple fall but Newton was the one who asked 'why.'

My favorite question is 'Why?' I think it can be really helpful - I also think it can be annoying to people at times; I'll admit that. But I really do try to understand why are we approaching it this way, does it makes sense, is this the right answer, why is it the right answer, are there other paths to getting there, could those be better.

I see myself as an avatar of curiosity and doubt.

I do not understand; I pause; I examine.

Question everything. Your love, your religion, your passion. If you don't have questions, you'll never find answers.

The first key to wisdom is assiduous and frequent questioning.

O my body, make of me always a man who questions!

It's not enough to have the right answers. You have to have the right questions.

Think and wonder, wonder and think.

I keep six honest serving men (they taught me all i knew); Theirs names are What and Why and When And How And Where and Who.

You're thinking about something, my dear, and that makes you forget to talk. I can't tell you just now what the moral of that is, but I shall remember it in a bit." "Perhaps it hasn't one," Alice ventured to remark. "Tut, tut, child!" said the Duchess. "Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.

They only babble who practise not reflection.

Good questions outrank easy answers.

I'm just quizzical about how things work and why things are.

It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.

I've always had questions about how things work and why it was that way. From all kinds of perspectives, from the physical to the spiritual.

We have learned how to do a lot of things. We must try to relearn why.

Religion asks you to believe things without questioning, and technology and science always encourage you to ask hard questions and why it is important in science and technology. So I was always interested in science and technology.