“You know more than you think you do.”
Benjamin Spock (1903–1998) American pediatrician and author of Baby and Child Care
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)
Douglas Reeman (1924–2017) British author
A Tradition of Victory, Cap 10 "For the Admiral's Lady"
Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890–1969) American general and politician, 34th president of the United States (in office from 1953 to 1961)
Source: At Ease: Stories I Tell to Friends
“You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.”
Oscar Wilde book The Picture of Dorian Gray
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
James A. Garfield (1831–1881) American politician, 20th President of the United States (in office in 1881)
"Elements of Success", as published in President Garfield and education: Hiram college memorial https://archive.org/details/presidentgarfiel00hinsuoft (1882), compiled by B. A. Hinsdale, p. 327
“Just trust yourself, then you will know how to live.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe book Faust
Mephistopheles and the Student
Faust, Part 1 (1808)
Shunryu Suzuki (1904–1971) Japanese Buddhist missionary
Express Yourself Fully (page 8)
Not Always So, practicing the true spirit of Zen (2002)
“The more you know yourself, the more you forgive yourself.”
Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher
Gertrude Stein (1874–1946) American art collector and experimental writer of novels, poetry and plays
Source: Three Lives & Tender Buttons
