Flora Lewis Quotes

I write to make sense of things that don't make sense to me.

Why you do something is always kind of a mystery to me.

He who knows how will always work for he who knows why.

Knowledge is more important than life. We've only one excuse for existing, to think, to find out, to learn.

I write to understand as much as to be understood.

To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something.

Sometimes we have to do a thing in order to find out the reason for it. Sometimes our actions are questions, not answers.

You can never be happy until you understand why you're doing what you're doing.

You know more about me than I do about myself, that's probably true.

There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.

I think that's one of the most important things that books do: not to teach you anything, but to help you teach yourself by just being in the world of the book and having your own thoughts and reactions and noticing your own reactions and thoughts and learning about yourself that way.

The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one's key to the experience of others.

I want to know why I'm alive. I want to understand. It's like exploration; it's like someone being interested in a place and its history, digging into the earth and looking for it, searching - it's a passion.

Doubt grows with knowledge.

We read deeply for varied reasons, most of them familiar: that we cannot know enough people profoundly enough; that we need to know ourselves better; that we require knowledge, not just of self and others, but of the way things are.

We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.

Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.

It's not what people do that matters, it's why they do it.

People need meanings to everything. People want you to intellectualize every choice you make.

Science is wonderfully equipped to answer the question 'How?' but it gets terribly confused when you ask the question 'Why?'

Wisdom begins in wonder.

The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.

Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own.

I can never say 'why' about anything I do. I suppose I can say 'how' and 'when' and 'what.' But 'why' is impenetrable to me.

When I don't understand things, I become passionate to understand.