E. B. White Quotes

If we have the truth, it cannot be harmed by investigation. If we have not the truth, it ought to be harmed.

The more false we destroy, the more room there will be for the true.

I always liked those moments of epiphany, when you have the next destination.

To be a writer does not mean to preach a truth, it means to discover a truth.

Truth is the daughter of time, and I feel no shame in being her midwife.

Argument is meant to reveal the truth, not to create it.

Every great scientific truth goes through three states: first, people say it conflicts with the Bible; next, they say it has been discovered before; lastly, they say they always believed it.

Light itself is a revelation.

I gave up caring about anything, and all the problems disappeared. And it was after that that I found out the truth . I learnt the truth last November on the third of November, to be precise and I remember every instant since.

I have just discovered the truth, and can't understand why everybody isn't eager to hear it.

All profound truths startle you in the first announcement.

If circumstances lead me, I will find Where truth is hid, though it were hid indeed Within the centre.

I have seen the truth. It is not as though I had invented it in my mind. I have seen it, SEEN IT and the living image of it has filled my soul forever.

We are born to inquire into truth; it belongs to a greater to possess it

We do not find truth groveling through error.

Utter truth is essential...and to get that truth may take a lot of searching and long hours.

Those who seek the truth run the risk of finding it.

The words "question" and "quest" are cognates. Only through inquiry can we discover truth.

Discovery is the journey; insight is the destination.

The buried truth germinates and breaks through to the light.

It has often occurred to me that a seeker after truth has to be silent.

Certain things, certain events, seem inexplicable only for a time: up to the moment when the veil is torn aside.

Relying on words to lead you to the truth is like relying on an incomplete formal system to lead you to the truth. A formal system will give you some truths, but as we shall soon see, a formal system, no matter how powerful cannot lead to all truths.

My God, it was like the Emerald City, and as you got closer you'd pick up your pace, and you'd give your tickets and go charging inside.

What I like, or one of the things I like, about motoring is the sense it gives one of lighting accidentally, like a voyager who touches another planet with the tip of his toe, upon scenes which would have gone on, have always gone on, will go on, unrecorded, save for this chance glimpse. Then it seems to me I am allowed to see the heart of the world uncovered for a moment.