Evan Williams Quotes

My most important quality or property is curiosity. And that had its beginning in what I was going to do with my life.

It's on the strength of observation and reflection that one finds a way. So we must dig and delve unceasingly.

Go to you bosom: Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know.

There is no such thing as an unreasonable question, or a silly question, or a frivolous question, or a waste-of-time question. It's your life, and you've got to get these answers.

Everyone now knows how to find the meaning of life within himself. But mankind wasn't always so lucky. Less than a century ago, men and women did not have easy access to the puzzle boxes within them.

The philosophy of the wisest man that ever existed, is mainly derived from the act of introspection.

You take your problems to a god, but what you really need is for the god to take you to the inside of you.

Especially on unexpected journeys, you have time; you can figure certain deeper things out, like who you are and what you want. That's why I enjoy journeys.

Nothing said to us, nothing we can learn from others, reaches us so deep as that which we find in ourselves.

We can find Nature outside us only if we have first learned to know her within us. What is akin to her within us must be our guide. This marks out our path of enquiry.

The best essays come from the moment in which people really need to work something out.

We gotta be willing to seek direction ... we've gotta be willing to look within.

Sometimes we do not hear the Whisperer even at her loudest because she speaks in our own voice, the one we most often discount.

I say, “You may be right, but don’t knock it until you’re tried it. Don’t say, ‘I think it’s worthless; therefore I’m not going to spend any time looking into myself the way one who prays does.'” Maybe that’s an even worse mistake than praying might be.

Stay with the question. The more it troubles you, the more it has to teach you.

Never cease doubting. When the doubts stop it is because you have stopped journeying.

Two tasks at the beginning of your life: to narrow your orbit more and more, and ever and again to check whether you are not in hiding somewhere outside your orbit.

Do what your inner soul tells you to do, regardless of any money or success it will bring you.

I think I write about things that are mysterious to me.

We have entered the cell, the Mansion of our birth, and started the inventory of our acquired wealth.

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

Sometimes I was so busy being tuned in to outside ideas, expectations, and demands, I failed to hear the unique music in my soul. I forfeited my ability to listen creatively to my deepest self, to my own God within.

I always try to put myself in the way of surprise as much as possible. My ambition is to keep challenging myself. I like that journey of discovery.

In 2013, I didn't work at all, just contemplating what I needed to do, whether I was walking in my destiny or not.

I like to write about questions that interest me, not the conclusions I've come to.