Edwin Percy Whipple Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Tell the truth.
-
I like the performing. And interviews, even. And the stuff that's not sitting in a room by yourself with empty paper. But I never loved writing, to tell you the truth.
-
After 'The Poisonwood Bible' was published, several people believed that my parents were missionaries, which could not be further from the truth.
-
The Assembly has witnessed over the last weeks how historical truth is established; once an allegation has been repeated a few times, it is no longer an allegation, it is an established fact, even if no evidence has been brought out in order to support it.
-
The truth is, I need 10 lifetimes to scratch the surface of the things I'd love to do.
-
We are learning more about the humanity of the unborn child. Science and truth support the prolife movement.
-
Love and dignity cannot share the same abode.
-
I always felt that a scientist owes the world only one thing, and that is the truth as he sees it.
-
We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth, at least the truth that is given to us to understand.
-
The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode.
-
Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
-
In seeking truth you have to get both sides of a story.
-
Never underestimate people. They do desire the cut of truth.
-
Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.
-
Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
-
Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.
-
The truth, indeed, is something that mankind, for some mysterious reason, instinctively dislikes. Every man who tries to tell it is unpopular, and even when, by the sheer strength of his case, he prevails, he is put down as a scoundrel.
-
I knew better than to let you break my heart The soul you'll never see again won't be showing scars You still love her I can see it in your eyes The truth is all that I can hear every time you lie.
-
I think style is both something that you have naturally and something you need to study. The most important thing is to find your personal style, your personal difference and choose things that suit you best and bring out your personal attributes.
-
Without effort and change, human life cannot remain good. It is not a finished Utopia that we ought to desire, but a world where imagination and hope are alive and active.
-
Most writers - poets in especial - prefer having it understood that they compose by a species of fine frenzy - an ecstatic intuition - and would positively shudder at letting the public take a peep behind the scenes.
-
Love is when you let someone be the way they are.
-
Loneliness is a terrible blindness.
-
Dignity is often a veil between us and the real truth of things.
