Willis R Whitney Quotes

#1. A persistent and age-old instinct makes us want to wander
Into regions yet untrod
And read what is still unread
In the manuscripts of God.

Willis R. Whitney

#2. Research is appreciation.

Willis R. Whitney

#3. Give me just enough information so that I can lie convincingly.

Stephen King

#4. The valuable attributes of research men are conscious ignorance and active curiosity.

Willis R. Whitney

#5. Live in robust sanity, in holy obedience to the ordinary." (The Message) "In an insane asylum like the world, simple sanity can be a heroic achievement.

Peter Kreeft

#6. Writing unlocks the heart, mind and soul that we may be receptive to God's blessings.

Peggy Toney Horton

#7. A writer must take risks, defy the odds, be a bit obsessed and a little mad.

Robert Cormier

#8. The thing is, we use past relationships like maps to navigate new ones. But it doesn't work that way, because every human, every relationship is different. It's like trying to use a map of Las Vegas to get around Vermont. It won't work. That's why so many people get lost.

Richard Paul Evans

#9. Somebody is always reflectively monkeying with some of the parts of an infinite universe - monkeying as distinct from aping.

Willis R. Whitney

#10. I've shared the fate of many working mothers; I felt guilty like them.

Valerie Trierweiler

#11. The spirit of independence! Every man who bore arms in this revolution now considers himself on the same footing as his neighbor. I tell you, Jefferson, the spirit of independence has been converted to the abominable idea of equality.

Stephanie Dray

#12. All that you need is deep within you waiting to unfold and reveal itself. All you have to do is be still and take time to seek for what is within and you will surely find it.

Eileen Caddy

#13. In the advance of civilization, it is new knowledge which paves the way, and the pavement is eternal.

Willis R. Whitney