A Quote by Leonardo da Vinci

He who thinks little errs much.

Leonardo da Vinci

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Little Much Thinks

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Leonardo da Vinci
Italian - Artist
April 15, 1452 - May 2, 1519

One never errs more safely than when one errs by too much loving the truth.

Saint Augustine

Man errs not that he deems His welfare his true aim, He errs because he dreams The world does but exist that welfare to bestow.

Matthew Arnold

You got to get away from words if you want to understand any animal. It thinks in pictures, it thinks in smells, it thinks in touch sensations - little sound bites like, it's a very detailed memory.

Temple Grandin

An egotist is not a man who thinks too much of himself; he is a man who thinks too little of other people.

Joseph Fort Newton

Therefore, if the earthly power errs, it shall be judged by the spiritual power ... but if the supreme spiritual power errs it can be judged only by God, and not by man ... Therefore we declare, state, define and pronounce that it is altogether necessary to salvation for every human creature to be subject to the Roman pontiff.

Pope Boniface VIII

People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little. It is plain that an ignorant person thinks everything he does know important, and he tells it to everybody. But a well-educated man is not so ready to display his learning; he would have too much to say, and he sees that there is much more to be said, so he holds his peace.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

When mundane, lowly activities are at stake, too much insight is detrimental — far-sightedness errs in immediate concerns.

Franz Grillparzer

I've never seen a society that thinks about sex so much and gets so little!

Frederick Lenz

One man thinks before he acts. Another man thinks after he acts. Each is of the opinon that the other thinks too much.

Susan Sontag

In a place where everybody thinks alike, nobody thinks very much.

Walter Lippmann

A person who thinks too much only ever thinks about his thoughts

Alan Watts

A kiss, she thinks, has to be entirely balanced -- it has to have a little conflict, a little dialectic, a little revolution.

Catherine Ryan Hyde

I don't think that McMahon thinks very much about the fact that J.R and I have been successful. I don't think that McMahon thinks the wrestling announcers really have that much to contribute the show.

Jerry Lawler

Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise, in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour?