Edwin Percy Whipple Quotes

Once you really commence to see things, then you really commence to feel things.

The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.

Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own.

We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.

Our imagination is stretched to the utmost, not, as in fiction, to imagine things which are not really there, but just to comprehend those things which are there.

One does not see his thought distinctly till it is reflected in the image of another's.

You can't tell what a man is like or what he is thinking when you are looking at him. You must get around behind him and see what he has been looking at.

To know another's heart, you must first know your own.

Study the world's skin before you set out to look for its heart.

We are all visionaries, and what we see is our soul in things.

Not every man with a heart is understanding, nor every man with an ear a listener, and nor every man with eyes able to see.

I see myself as a witness to humanity.

Our job is not to set things right but to see them right.

Wise is the man who does not disdain any character and instead, examining him with a searching look, plumbs him to the very main-springs of his being.

A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding.

All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.

I wanted to write about looking at the world, so it's more about helping people, or persuading people, to see what is around us; both the marvellous and the terrible.

Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

There are two languages: one as things seem to us and the other of knowledge.

If you take a lie and allow your desire for the truth, you'll end up with some truth - not fact, but something that gets you closer to the truth. That's what we want. When we go to a play, we need to be assured that the experience we're having.

To be a writer is to connect and to play and to attempt to see clearly and understand. It astounds me regularly that feeling things deeply and writing them down is basically my job description.

All there is to thinking is seeing something noticeable, which makes you see something you weren't noticing, which makes you see something that isn't even visible.

There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.

It is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception and compassion and hope.

I didn't look very sensitive and they didn't know me very well.