"If there's anything worse than knowing too little, it's knowing too much. Education will broaden a narrow mind, but there's no known cure for a big head. The best you can hope is that it will swell up and bust."

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Source : "Fictional character: Alma". "Pillow Talk", www.imdb.com. 1959.

George Horace Lorimer

#Knowing Quotes #Mind Quotes #Littles Quotes

“You will find the poet who wrings the heart of the world, or the foremost captain of his time, driving a bargain or paring a potato, just as you would do.”

Source : Rebecca Harding Davis (1904). “Rebecca Harding Davis: Writing Cultural Autobiography”, p.49, Vanderbilt University Press
“Thought is cause: experience is effect. If you don't like the effects in your life, you have to change the nature of your thinking.”
“Simply by our proximity to Jesus, we can bring hope and life to people and places trapped in discouragement and despair.”
“The secret of living well is not in having all the answers but in pursuing unanswerable questions in good company.”
“Whoever is happy will make others happy.”
“To govern mankind, one must not overrate them.”
“What?" "You're so neat," she said, looking almost embarrassed. He glanced pointedly over his shoulder. "There are four hundred on the other side of this door." "But you're ruining me." "I can't do it neatly?”
“External heat and cold had little influence on Scrooge. No warmth could warm, no wintry weather chill him. No wind that blew was bitterer than he, no falling snow was more intent upon its purpose, no pelting rain less open to entreaty.”

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