Quotes about t
truth greater written
The greater amount of truth is impulsively uttered; thus the greater amount is spoken, not written. Edgar Allan Poe
two half narrative
We allude to the short prose narrative, requiring from a half hour to one or two hours in its perusal
taste creation sole
I would define, in brief, the Poetry of words as the Rhythmical Creation of Beauty. Its sole arbiter is taste. With the intellect or with the conscience, it has only collateral relations. Unless incidentally, it has no concern whatever either with duty or with truth.
thinking fool example
A fool, for example, thinks Shakespeare a great poet . . . yet the fool has never read Shakespeare.
thinking men mystery
Mysteries force a man to think, and so injure his health.
truth philosophy irrelevance
Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.
time imagination noses
The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.
together sun valleys
We had always dwelled together, beneath a tropical sun, in the Valley of the Many Colored Grass.
thoughtful law names
It is with literature as with law or empire - an established name is an estate in tenure, or a throne in possession.
thoughtful men noble
Literature is the most noble of professions. In fact, it is about the only one fit for a man.
thoughtful soul titles
A poem deserves its title only inasmuch as it excites, by elevating the soul.
theatre acting half
One half of the pleasure experienced at a theatre arises from the spectator's sympathy with the rest of the audience, and, especially from his belief in their sympathy with him.
thoughtful taught-us intelligence
Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.
thyself
In me didst thou exist-and, in my death, see by this image, which is thine own, how utterly thou hast murdered thyself.
thoughtful ideas music-is
Music, when combined with a pleasurable idea, is poetry; music, without the idea, is simply music; the idea, without the music, is prose, from its very definitiveness.
thoughtful remember
To observe attentively is to remember distinctly.
truth halloween believe
Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear.
thinking diversity challenges
Absolutely the greatest challenges in dealing with discrimination are with the larger group who needs to consider how they think and act in everyday life. It remains the possibility of the majority to accept the call to change. Eleanor Holmes Norton
teacher thinking greed
I vote far-left. I am frequently angered by corporate greed and think education ought to be free and teachers paid well. Eleanor Catton
thinking speech facts
I think the adverb is a much-maligned part of speech. Its always accused of being oppressive, even tyrannical, when in fact its so supple and sly.
thinking ideas luck
I have observed that male writers tend to get asked what they think and women what they feel. In my experience, and that of a lot of other women writers, all of the questions coming at them from interviewers tend to be about how lucky they are to be where they are – about luck and identity and how the idea struck them. The interviews much more seldom engage with the woman as a serious thinker, a philosopher, as a person with preoccupations that are going to sustain them for their lifetime.
taken heart communism
I have taken an oath in my heart to oppose communism until the day I die. Eldridge Cleaver
thinking squad four
Americans think of themselves collectively as a huge rescue squad on twenty-four hour call to any spot on the globe where dispute and conflict may erupt.
thinking needs simplify
The more we simplify our material needs the more we are free to think of other things. Eleanor Roosevelt
thinking forever looks
The encouraging thing is that every time you meet a situation, though you may think at the time it is an impossibility and you go through the tortures of the damned, once you have met it and lived through it you find that forever after you are freer than you ever were before. . . . You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, “I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.
trust drinking men
The hundred-point man is one who is true to every trust; who keeps his word; who is loyal to the firm that employs him; who does not listen for insults nor look for slights; who carries a civil tongue in his head; who is polite to strangers without being fresh; who is considerate toward servants; who is moderate in his eating and drinking; who is willing to learn; who is cautious and yet courageous. Elbert Hubbard
thinking people humanity
Don't lose faith in humanity; think of all the people in the United States who have never played you a single nasty trick.
teacher educational appreciate
What people need and what they want may be very different.... Teachers are those who educate the people to appreciate the things they need.
truth cease
When we really live truth, we will cease to talk about it.
truth honesty philosopher
Life is a paradox. Every truth has its counterpart which contradicts it; and every philosopher supplies the logic his own undoing.
thinking people able
People who are able to do their own thinking should not allow others to do it for them.
true-love falling-in-love love-is
The only way to retain love is to give it away.
trying advertising no-failure
There is no failure except the failure of trying.