Muriel Rukeyser Quotes

Nothing can be believed but what one sees, or has from an eye witness.

Ultimately, it is only the witness who convinces people, not the teacher.

I write as a witness to what I have seen.

...it is a very risky thing for anyone to go about proclaiming the truth simply because he finds himself in possession of concrete documentary proofs or on the evidence of his own eyes, which is always overestimated.

It is better to see once than to hear a hundred times.

Everyone has been a witness sometime - It doesn't change it if you don't believe.

When you listen to a witness, you become a witness.

I don't really talk that much. I just watch and observe.

All I know is what I've lived through, so this is what I know.

One who can see without seeming to see-- That's an observer as good as three.

Things seen are mightier than things heard.

Unless you can be in a place yourself and go through the subject of your story yourself, the next best thing is not to read a book about it, or see a movie about it, it's to talk to the people who've been there.

Whether this tale be true or false, none can tell, for none were there to witness it themselves.

Suspecting and knowing are not the same.

As a vital link in the conversion process, we should bear our testimonies that the gospel is true; our testimonies may well be the spark that ignites the conversion process. Consequently, we have a double responsibility: we must testify of the things we know, feel, and have felt, and we must live so the Holy Ghost can be with us and convey our words in power to the heart of the investigator.

Seeing something once is better than hearing about it a hundred times. Doing something once is better than seeing it a hundred times.

Without knowing the Knower, all the knowledge that one gathers cannot be valid.

The singer alone does not make a song, there has to be someone who hears. -Broken Song

no one bears witness for the witness

Performance is always oriented towards a spectator, towards an imagined audience and I was thinking who is their imagined audience?

All the things I've read in my school books about England and the Queen were okay, but my eyes are the greatest book in the world.

We . . . have to open our mouths and bear testimony.

One has to taste an experience for oneself and find out if the thing is genuine or helpful. Then, before discarding something, one has to go further, so that one gets firsthand experience.

Even facts become fictions without adequate ways of seeing "the facts". We do not need theories so much as the experience that is the source of the theory. We are not satisfied with faith, in the sense of an implausible hypothesis irrationally held: we demand to experience the "evidence".