English En
  • Deutsche De
  • English En
  • Français Fr
  • Русский Ru

We use cookies to personalise content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyse our traffic. We also share information about your use of our site with our marketing and analytics partners who may combine it with other information you've provided to them or which they've separately collected from you. You also may to see our Privacy Policy. By clicking the OK button below, you accept our cookies.

Authors:

Benjamin Spock Quotes

Benjamin Spock quote: "Trust yourself, you know more than you think you do."

Trust yourself, you know more than you think you do.

Benjamin Spock

About author

Related Authors

Topics

Quotes currently Trending

Thomas Malory quote: "What... is the wind in that door?"
What... is the wind in that door? Thomas Malory
It's easier for the former masters to put aside the masks that hid their humanity than for the former slaves to recognise the faces underneath. Or to trust that this is not a new mask these are wearing. Nadine Gordimer
Rick Warren quote: "Knowing your purpose motivates your life."
Knowing your purpose motivates your life. Rick Warren
The complexity - the close texture - of all the great events in the Christian year impresses me more and more. Each is a window opening on the total mystery. C. S. Lewis
Each is under the most sacred obligation not to squander the material committed to him, not to sap his strength in folly and vice, and to see at the least that he delivers a product worthy the labor and cost which have been expended on him. Anna Julia Cooper
Zora Neale Hurston quote: "Night came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress."
Night came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress. Zora Neale Hurston
Jails and prisons are designed to break human beings, to convert the population into specimens in a zoo - obedient to our keepers, but dangerous to each other. Angela Davis
Jessica Simpson quote: "I made sure no butt cheek hung out. You know, the original..."
I made sure no butt cheek hung out. You know, the original Daisy, Catherine Bach's shorts were shorter than mine. Jessica Simpson
We played together for so long and we got to the point where our styles blended together. Even today, sometimes I'll hear our records and I'm not really sure who played what. And we took a bunch of acid together too. Wayne Kramer
We all take such pains to over-educate ourselves. In the wild struggle for existence, we want to have something that endures, and so we fill our minds with rubbish and facts, in the silly hope of keeping our place. The thoroughly well-informed man - that is the modern ideal. And the mind of the thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing. It is like a bric-a-brac shop, all monsters and dust, with everything priced above its proper value. Oscar Wilde
though the only spout in sight was that of a Fin-Back, belonging to the species of uncapturable whales, because of its incredible power of swimming. Nevertheless, the Fin-Back’s spout is so similar to the Sperm Whale’s, that by unskilful fishermen it is often mistaken for it. And consequently Derick and all his host were now in valiant chase of this unnearable brute. The Virgin crowding all sail, made after her four young keels, and thus they all disappeared far to leeward, still in bold,... Herman Melville
Selena Gomez quote: "Being yourself is all it takes. If you want to impress someone..."
Being yourself is all it takes. If you want to impress someone don't be someone else just be yourself. Selena Gomez
The women we really love are the women who complete us, who have the qualities we can borrow and so become something nearer to whole men. Just as we complete them, of course; it’s not a one-way thing. Leola and I, when romance was stripped away, were too much alike; our strengths and weaknesses were too nearly the same. Together we would have doubled our gains and our losses, but that isn’t what love is. Robertson Davies
John Ruskin quote: "All books are divisible into two classes, the books of the..."
All books are divisible into two classes, the books of the hour, and the books of all time. John Ruskin
Children must be considered in a divorce considered valuable pawns in the nasty legal and financial contest that is about to ensue. P. J. O'Rourke