Source: Horns
“You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.”
Variant: You are a wonderful creation. You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray
“If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.”
Man and the Gospel (1865) by Thomas Guthrie "and you may know how little God thinks of money by observing on what bad and contemptible characters he often bestows it."
“We may see the small Value God has for Riches, by the People he gives them to.” -- Alexander Pope (1727).
Misattributed
Variant: If you want to know what the Lord God thinks of money, just look at those to whom he gives it.
Source: Life of Pi (2001), Chapter 99, p. 336
Context: I know what you want. You want a story that won't surprise you. That will confirm what you already know. That won't make you see higher or further or differently. You want a flat story. An immobile story. You want dry, yeastless factuality.
Session 340, Page 25
The Early Sessions: Sessions 1-42, 1997, The Early Sessions: Book 8
“It's important to know what you don't want, but it's vital to know what you DO want.”
Source: Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010), p. 152
“If you want to know what God thinks about money just look at the people He gives it to.”
“… You can't unlearn something, even if you want to. You know what you know.”
Source: Along for the Ride
