William Faulkner Quotes

Only fools answer hypothetical questions.

We shall not grow wiser before we learn that much that we have done was very foolish.

Often I think of personal behavior and judgment errors as being superficial wounds.

I've done a lot of dumb things in my life.

Were we faultless, we would not derive such satisfaction from remarking the faults of others.

He never said a foolish thing nor never did a wise one.

I don't know how you can understand other people or yourself if you haven't read a lot of books. I just don't think you're equipped to deal with the demands and decisions of life, particularly in your dealings with other people.

I don't always like my own behavior. I haven't known anyone who is perfect all the time.

Nobody else is stupid enough to get themselves into the straits that I get into.

I suppose I have very undesirable traits. I am very critical, which is very undesirable. But it is good from a business point of view.

I find it valuable to watch what I do. I like to know when I'm making a choice if it actually works or not.

Somewhere deep down there's a decent man in me, he just can't be found.

I don't read reviews and I don't know what to do with opinions, so I just lose them. They take up space, they become a process of manufacturing a persona, which I want to avoid.

It is the part of a fool to say, I should not have thought.

Neither man nor woman can be worth anything until they have discovered that they are fools.

I try to read everything that I can about myself because Saddam Hussein didn't read his reviews and he thought he was winning!

We all do stupid things.

To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject.

When I was younger, I made some decisions that I shouldn't have. And, in hindsight, I've almost always been wrong when I haven't listened to myself.

Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.

I'm a complete human being. I'm very emotional and loving. I feel, I hurt, I give, I take, and also I think. I analyze. I'm a sociologist, anthropologist.

One of my biggest flaws is I don't take advice.

Am I getting better at making choices? Well, I think I might be getting better at reading scripts.

I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool that I am.

Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.