“A writer should write what he has to say and not speak it.”
Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American author and journalist
Nobel Prize Speech (1954)
“A child should always say what's true
And speak when he is spoken to,
And behave mannerly at table;
At least as far as he is able.”
Whole Duty of Children.
A Child's Garden of Verses (1885)
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“A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he was born.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841–1935) United States Supreme Court justice
More likely attributable to Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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“A child needs your love most when he deserves it least”
Erma Bombeck (1927–1996) When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent le…
Ursula K. Le Guin (1929–2018) American writer
Source: Earthsea Books, A Wizard of Earthsea (1968), Chapter 9
Mikhail Bakunin book God and the State
God and the State (1871; publ. 1882)
Context: A person is strong only when he stands upon his own truth, when he speaks and acts from his deepest convictions. Then, whatever the situation he may be in, he always knows what he must say and do. He may fall, but he cannot bring shame upon himself or his cause. If we seek the liberation of the people by means of a lie, we will surely grow confused, go astray, and lose sight of our objective, and if we have any influence at all on the people we will lead them astray as well — in other words, we will be acting in the spirit of reaction and to its benefit.
“When he has nothing to say, he lets words speak.”
Elias Canetti (1905–1994) Bulgarian-born Swiss and British jewish modernist novelist, playwright, memoirist, and non-fiction writer
J. Agee, trans. (1989), p. 147
Das Geheimherz der Uhr [The Secret Heart of the Clock] (1987)
William Kingdon Clifford (1845–1879) English mathematician and philosopher
The Ethics of Belief (1877), The Limits Of Inference
Context: p>We may believe what goes beyond our experience, only when it is inferred from that experience by the assumption that what we do not know is like what we know. We may believe the statement of another person, when there is reasonable ground for supposing that he knows the matter of which he speaks, and that he is speaking the truth so far as he knows it.It is wrong in all cases to believe on insufficient evidence; and where it is presumption to doubt and to investigate, there it is worse than presumption to believe.</p
Brenda Ueland (1891–1985) Journalist and writer
Source: If You Want to Write: A Book about Art, Independence and Spirit
