For every why he had a wherefore

Quote by Samuel Butler

Topics: Questioning Quotes

The truest characters of ignorance are vanity, and pride and arrogance.

The truest characters of ignorance are vanity, and pride and arrogance.

The man who takes time to explain his mistakes has little time left for anything...

The man who takes time to explain his mistakes has little time left for anything...

Spontaneity is only a term for man's ignorance of the gods

Spontaneity is only a term for man's ignorance of the gods

God cannot alter the past, that is why he is obliged to connive at the...

God cannot alter the past, that is why he is obliged to connive at the...

All of the animals except for man know that the principle business of life is...

All of the animals except for man know that the principle business of life is...

Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them...

Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them...

There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as...

There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as...

I never knew a writer yet who took the smallest pains with his style and...

I never knew a writer yet who took the smallest pains with his style and...

The healthy stomach is nothing if it is not conservative. Few radicals have good digestions.

The healthy stomach is nothing if it is not conservative. Few radicals have good digestions.

Be virtuous and you will be vicious.

Be virtuous and you will be vicious.

And so there is no God but has been in the loins of past gods.

And so there is no God but has been in the loins of past gods.

The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be...

The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be...

Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to...

Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to...

Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or anything else, is...

Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or anything else, is...

Brigands demand your money or your life; women require both

Brigands demand your money or your life; women require both

Our minds want clothes as much as our bodies.

Our minds want clothes as much as our bodies.

All truth is not to be told at all times.

All truth is not to be told at all times.

Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons.

Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons.

In the midst of vice we are in virtue, and vice versa.

In the midst of vice we are in virtue, and vice versa.

No mistake is more common and more fatuous than appealing to logic in cases which...

No mistake is more common and more fatuous than appealing to logic in cases which...