“[To Mr. Johnson] If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.”
Oliver Goldsmith (1728–1774) Irish physician and writer
From James Boswell's Life of Johnson (1791), April 27, 1773.
“In shallow men the fish of little thoughts cause much commotion. In oceanic minds the whales of inspiration make hardly a ruffle.”
Autobiography of a Yogi (1946)
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Source: Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity
Context: Ideas are like fish.
If you want to catch little fish, you can stay in the shallow water. But if you want to catch the big fish, you've got to go deeper.
Down deep, the fish are more powerful and more pure. They're huge and abstract. And they're very beautiful.
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“Too much gravity argues a shallow mind.”
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Rumi (1207–1273) Iranian poet
As quoted in "A feather on the breath of God" by Nur Elmessiri in Al-Ahram Weekly Online Issue No. 385 (9 - 15 July 1998) http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/1998/385/cu2.htm
