“Nobody can judge an internal injury by the size of the superficial wound.”
Variant: You can't judge an internal injury by the size of the hole.
Source: The Satanic Verses
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British Indian novelist and essayist 1947Related quotes
“There are open wounds, shrunk sometimes to the size of a pin-prick but wounds still.”
Source: Tender Is the Night
"Love Letters, Some Not So Loving" (a review of H.G. Wells and Rebecca West by Gordon N. Ray), in The New York Times (13 October 1974) http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/09/10/specials/west-ray.html; this has often been paraphrased as "Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a Judge's chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view."
Context: Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a Judge's chamber can believe in an unprejudiced point of view but, simply in self-interest, the biographer must try for one, or make us believe he has, or tell us that he hasn't.
“Don't wanna judge nobody — don't wanna be judged.”
Song lyrics, Slow Train Coming (1979), Do Right to Me Baby
No. 86.
Spiritual Exercises (1548)
"The Salt of the Earth"
Source: The Harsh Voice: Four Short Novels (1935)
From Amritanandamayi's Speech Against Human Trafficking and Slavery at the Vatican (2014)