Explosions Quote by Edwin Percy Whipple Download Open image “Wit is an unexpected explosion of thought.” — Edwin Percy Whipple ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Explosions Philosophy of Mind Unexpected Wit
Wit is that which has been often thought, but never before was well expressed. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Wit is the appearance, the external flash of imagination. Thus its divinity, and the witty character of mysticism. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
The best thing next to wit is a consciousness that it is not in us; without wit, a man might then know how to… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Cheerfulness in most cheerful people is the rich and satisfying result of strenuous discipline. — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
A true teacher should penetrate to whatever is vital in his pupil, and develop that by the light and heat of his own intelligence. — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
A politician weakly and amiably in the right is no match for a politician tenaciously and pugnaciously in the wrong. You cannot, by tying… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
A thought embodied and embrained in fit words walks the earth a living being. — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
Nature and society are so replete with startling contrasts that wit often consists in the mere statement and comparison of facts, as when Hume… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
The bitterest satires and noblest eulogies on married life have come from poets. — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
Genius is not a single power, but a combination of great powers. It reasons, but it is not reasoning; it judges, but it is… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
Nature does not capriciously scatter her secrets as golden gifts to lazy pets and luxurious darlings, but imposes tasks when she presents opportunities, and… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
Even in social life, it is persistency which attracts confidence, more than talents and accomplishments. — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
A nation may be in a tumult to-day for a thought which the timid Erasmus placidly penned in his study more than two centuries… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
"Summer Sisters" is probably my least autobiographical book. The whole idea started with rowing down the pond. And I heard an explosion. I don't… — Judy Blume Copy Share Image
The explosion was good. It sent a message to the rest of the world that the time of the big star getting all this… — Sumner Redstone Copy Share Image
There are three things in this world that will survive a nuclear explosion: Twinkies, cockroaches and Dean Ambroses. — Dean Ambrose Copy Share Image
I don't really care for or that much about Chat Roulette. I think the phenomenon of it and like the first wow factor which… — Casey Neistat Copy Share Image
I don't want to be in a movie with 20 minutes of dialogue and then stand around while the robots start explosions. — Henry Hopper Copy Share Image
There were two, three or four French Revolutions. Like a multi-stage rocket today, the Revolution involved several successive explosions and propellant thrusts. — Fernand Braudel Copy Share Image
We've kind of grown up in a post-Star Wars era, and what Star Wars did to cinema, in terms of an explosion of that… — Simon Pegg Copy Share Image
The online shopping paradigm is finally changing. Indeed, I think we’ve seen more innovation in the last 10 months than in the last 10… — Josh Kopelman Copy Share Image
Our entire universe emerged from a point smaller than a single atom. Space itself exploded in a cosmic fire, launching the expansion of the… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
As long as there is no control of population, the population explosion will make it so easy for politicians to dominate. — Laura Huxley Copy Share Image
Fulfilling the four needs in an integrated way is like combining elements in chemistry. When we reach a "critical mass" of integration, we experience… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
The brutality of the pace. This was my third presidential campaign and it was a thousand times faster paced than my first one in… — Kevin Madden Copy Share Image
