“We can get so wrapped up in our own misconceptions that we miss the simple beauty of the truth.”
Deb Caletti (1963) American writer
Source: Stay
“…so do wrap up!”
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Alfred Binet (1857–1911) French psychologist and inventor of the first usable intelligence test
Source: The Mind and the Brain, 1907, p. 37
Peter Medawar (1915–1987) scientist
(with Jean Medawar) Aristotle to Zoos: A Philosophical Dictionary of Biology, 1983, p. 275.
1980s
“A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small parcel.”
John Ruskin (1819–1900) English writer and art critic
“A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.”
Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790) American author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, inventor, civic activist, …
This seems to have been first attributed to Franklin in The New Age Magazine Vol. 66 (1958), and the earliest appearance of it yet located is in Coronet magazine, Vol. 34 (1953), p. 27, where it was attributed to a Louise Stein; it thus seems likely to have been derived from an earlier statement of Harry Emerson Fosdick, On Being a Real Person (1943) : "At very best, a person wrapped up in himself makes a small package".
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“If you want to get an idea across, wrap it up in a person.”
Ralph Bunche (1904–1971) American diplomat
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