Margaret Atwood Quotes

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

The poet is at the edge of our consciousness of the world, finding beyond the suspected nothingness which we imagine limits our perception another acre or so of being worth our venturing upon.

Science is but an image of the truth.

You basically only discover a new thing once.

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

He who has religion will speak poetry. But philosophy is the tool with which to seek and discover religion.

Another one of the old poets, whose name has escaped my memory at present, called Truth the daughter of Time.

Time is the father of truth, its mother is our mind.

I like to open people's eyes.

Doubts are the messengers of the Living One to the honest. They are the first knock at our door of things that are not yet, but have to be, understood. . . . Doubts must precede every deeper assurance; for uncertainties are what we first see when we look into a region hitherto unknown, unexplored, unannexed.

The imagination is a species of knowledge, knowledge that can take the form of discovery.

Most new discoveries are suddenly-seen things that were always there. A new idea is a light that illuminates presences which simply had no form before the light fell on them.

Every genuine poet is necessarily a Columbus. America existed for centuries before Columbus but it was only Columbus who was able to track it down.

Words build bridges into unexplored regions.

I think writing is really about a journey of understanding. So you take something that seems very far away, and the more you write about it, the more you travel into it, and you see it from within.

You know, the great thing about acting or, indeed, filmmaking in general, is that we're all given a reason to do research. You kind of have to, really, if you want to know what you're doing, but it opens up this whole new understanding.

I always think it's interesting to dig a little bit deeper every time you go to someplace that seems like a revelation or a strong connection to an emotional truth.

Science provides an understanding of a universal experience. Arts provide a universal understanding of a personal experience.

The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.

For the resolving powers of our scientific instruments decide, at a given moment, of the size and the vision of our Universe, and of the image we then make of ourselves.

I like the facts. I find them interesting.

There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.'

It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.

Time discovers truth.

It is my feeling that Time ripens all things; with Time all things are revealed; Time is the father of truth.