“I am the truth, since I am part of what is real, but neither more nor less than those around me.”
Wallace Stevens (1879–1955) American poet
Source: The Necessary Angel: Essays on Reality and the Imagination
To Leon Goldensohn (27 May 1946)
The Nuremberg Interviews (2004)
“I am the truth, since I am part of what is real, but neither more nor less than those around me.”
Wallace Stevens (1879–1955) American poet
Source: The Necessary Angel: Essays on Reality and the Imagination
Mahatma Gandhi (1869–1948) pre-eminent leader of Indian nationalism during British-ruled India
Introduction
1920s, An Autobiography (1927)
“I am less than what you tell about me but more than what you think about me”
Ali book Nahj al-Balagha
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."
Conor McGregor (1988) Irish mixed martial artist and boxer
"UFC 197 press conference" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75xAdA3uVeY (January 2016), Ultimate Fighting Championship, Zuffa, LLC <br class="br">2010s, 2016
Nassim Nicholas Taleb (1960) Lebanese-American essayist, scholar, statistician, former trader and risk analyst
Source: The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
Will Cuppy (1884–1949) American writer
Comic interview with Jo Ranson, "Living from Can to Mouth," Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Brooklyn Eagle Magazine, November 24, 1929, p. 5.
Flavor Flav (1959) American rapper
[Casey, Cisneros, http://media.www.collegian.com/media/storage/paper864/news/2005/01/27/VervetheDishLive/Flavor.Flav.Interview-1705943.shtml, Flavor Flav interview, The Rocky Mountain Collegian, Colorado State University, 27 January 2005, 2008-03-05]