Every discovery begins with a question. Every adventure begins with curiosity. Sometimes the smallest word opens the biggest door. "Why?" helps us understand the world. "Why not?" invites us to imagine a better one. These quotations celebrate wonder, imagination, and the courage to keep asking. ✨
Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast. ~ Lewis Carroll
Why should we worry about what others think of us? Do we have more confidence in their opinions than we do in our own? ~ Brigham Young
Why should people like you? They will like you if you like them and develop qualities of warmth that attract others. ~ Dorothy Carnegie
Why put it on if you're not going to strut? ~ Christine Baranski
Why one person rather than another? You find yourself involved with someone for life simply because that was the person you met when you were nineteen. ~ Simone de Beauvoir
Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation! ~ Jane Austen
Why not go out on a limb? Isn't that where the fruit is? ~ Frank Scully
Why look worse when you can look better? ~ Elizabeth Hurley
Why let one high C ruin your whole evening? ~ Beverly Sills
Why is life speeded up so? Why are things so terribly, unbearably precious that you can't enjoy them, but can only wait breathless in dread of their going? ~ Ann Morrow Lindbergh
Why is it better to love than be loved? It is surer. ~ Sacha Guitry
Why is everyone telling me to do it? I already did it. ~ John Lennon
Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the only one who asked why. ~ Bernard Baruch
"Why not" is a slogan for an interesting life. ~ Mason Cooley
Why not upset the apple cart? If you don't, the apples will rot anyway. ~ Frank A. Clark
Why do we remember the past, but not the future? ~ Stephen Hawking
Why be so simple when complexity is so beautiful? ~ German Maxim
Why we are here is an impenetrable question. ~ Edward Albee
Why do writers write? Because it isn't there. ~ Thomas Berger
Life's two most important questions are Why? and Why not? The trick is knowing which one to ask. ~ Gordon Livingston