Source: Three Lives & Tender Buttons
“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
Source: At Ease: Stories I Tell to Friends
“You know more than you think you do.”
First sentence. This is printed beneath the heading "Trust Yourself" , and thus is often quoted as "Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do. "
Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care (1945)
“Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.”
<br/k> "What-what-really, this is astonishing-" <br/k> "I think that if you were truly as corrupt and venal as you pretend, you would be in the Senate."
Mace Windu and Colonel Lorz Geptun
Shatterpoint (2004)
“I am less than what you tell about me but more than what you think about me”
Nahj al-Balagha
Context: A man sarcastically started praising Imam Ali, though he had no faith in him and Imam Ali hearing these praises from him said "I am less than what you tell about me but more than what you think about me."
Source: All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten
“I care more than — you cannot believe how much I care! I want to help somebody!”
In "Jack LaLanne dies at 96; spiritual father of U.S. fitness movement, LosAngeles Times"
“When you write easily, you always think you have more talent than you really do.”
