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“You know more than you think you do.”
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)
“How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is
To have a thankless child!”
Lear, Act I, scene iv.
Source: King Lear (1605–6)
“Better to assume the worst and be wrong than assume the best and be wrong.”
Source: Obsidian Butterfly
“Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.”
This is only a slightly misquoted version of "Pictures deface walls oftener than they decorate them", written by Frank Lloyd Wright in the magazine Architectural Record in March 1908.
Misattributed
“People need to be reminded more often than they need to be instructed.”
“Could any Hell be more horrible than now, and real?”
“It is easier to change a man's religion than to change his diet.”
“living a life that is driven more strongly by curiosity than by fear.”
Source: Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
“I notice that Autumn is more the season of the soul than of nature.”
“We cannot rise higher than our thought of ourselves.”
“Animals don't hate, and we're supposed to be smarter than them.”
Variant: Animals don't hate, and we're supposed to be better than them.
“There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist, except an old optimist.”
Variant: There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist, except an old optimist.
“Prefer to be defeated in the presence of the wise than to excel among fools.”