My function as a writer is not story-telling but truth-telling: to make things plain.

How our story has been divided up among the truth-telling professions! Religion, philosophy, history, poetry, compete with each other for our ears; and science competes with all together. And for each we have a different set of ears. But, though we hear much, what we are told is as nothing: none of it gives us ourselves, rather each story-kind steals us to make its reality of us.

Learning can be a bridge between doing and thinking. But then there is a danger that the person who uses learning as a bridge between doing and thinking may get stuck in learning and never get on to thinking.

Every thought sounds like a footfall, Till a thought like a boot kicks down the wall.

My function as a writer is not story-telling but truth-telling: to make things plain.

People get wisdom from thinking, not from learning.

Truth rings no bells.