A Quote by Toni Morrison

the hopelessness that comes from knowing too little and feeling too much (so brittle, so dry he is in danger of the reverse: feeling nothing and knowing everything)

Toni Morrison

Quote Topics

Danger Dry Everything Feeling Hopelessness Knowing Knowing Everything Little Much Nothing Reverse Too Too Much

Quote Author

Toni Morrison
American - Novelist
February 18, 1931 - August 5, 2019

In discovering books, you became free to explore the full range of human motives, desires, secrets, and lies. All my life, people have scolded me for having an excess of feeling, saying that I was too sensitive - as if one could be in danger from feeling too much instead of too little. But my outsize emotions were well represented in books. [] there simmered all the feelings no one ever admits to.

Betsy Lerner

If there's anything worse than knowing too little, it's knowing too much. Education will broaden a narrow mind, but there's no known cure for a big head. The best you can hope is that it will swell up and bust.

George Horace Lorimer

Like teenagers, we appear to have gone from knowing nothing about the world to knowing too much all but overnight.

Pico Iyer

In the economy of the body, the limbic highway takes precedence over the neural pathways. We were designed and built to feel, and there is no thought, no state of mind, that is not also a feeling state. Nobody can feel too much, though many of us work very hard at feeling too little. Feeling is frightening.

Jeanette Winterson

Imagine not being frightened by any feeling. Imagine knowing that nothing will destroy you. That you are beyond any feeling, and state. Bigger than. Vaster than. That there is no reason to use drugs because anything a drug could do would pale in comparison to knowing who you are.

Geneen Roth

That's the danger of having too much success. You lose that magic, that feeling of not being in control, which I feel now, it's too controlled.

Stephen Dorff

Too much to ask for may leave me feeling lonely. Too little leaves me nothing.

Lisa Loeb

Feeling too much is a hell of a lot better than feeling nothing.

Nora Roberts

Self-esteem is made up primarily of two things: feeling lovable and feeling capable. Lovable means I feel people want to be with me. They invite me to parties; they affirm I have the qualities necessary to be included. Feeling capable is knowing that I can produce a result. It's knowing I can handle anything that life hands me.

Jack Canfield

...weary of k knowing too much and understanding too little.

Jan Karon

Many soldiers are led to faulty ideas of war by knowing too much about too little.

George S. Patton

To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion.

George Eliot

There is a danger one has to really be knowing much more because you can't be too narrow on science.

Ahmed H. Zewail

It is not quite right to describe One Taste as a "consciousness" or an "awareness," because that's a little too heady, too cognitive. It's more like the simple Feeling of Being. You already feel this simple Feeling of Being: it is the simple, present feeling of existence.

Ken Wilber

That's the worst and best thing about being in the studio, feeling completely lost and not knowing how to put the final touch on something. But once you find it, there's nothing like that feeling.