One kernel is felt in a hogshead; one drop of water helps to swell the ocean; a spark of fire helps to give light to the world. None are too small, too feeble, too poor to be of service. Think of this and act.
Hannah MoreRead
The world does not require so much to be informed as to be reminded.
Interpretation
What this quote means
People often need reminders of what they already know rather than new information.
Hannah More suggests that the human mind is often filled with knowledge that can be easily forgotten. Instead of seeking new information, we should focus on revisiting and reinforcing what we already understand to keep ourselves informed and aware of important truths.
Themes
ReminderKnowledgeWisdomInformationAwareness
In practice
Example use cases
In a motivational speech to emphasize the importance of revisiting concepts, one could use this quote.
More from Hannah More
All quotes βMan can see his reflection in water only when he bends down close to it, and the heart of man, too, must lean down to the heart of his fellow; then it will see itself within his heart.
Hannah MoreRead
Absence in love is like water upon fire; a little quickens, but much extinguishes it.
Hannah MoreRead
Since trifles make the sum of human things, And half our misery from our foibles springs.
Hannah MoreRead
Everything which relates to God is infinite. We must therefore, while we keep our hearts humble, keep our aims high. Our highest services are indeed but finite, imperfect. But as God is unlimited in goodness, He should have our unlimited love.
Hannah MoreRead
Affliction is the school in which great virtues are acquired, in which great characters are formed.
Hannah MoreRead
Similar quotes
It is the courage to be authentic that keeps us strong enough to withstand the heartbreak through which enlightenment can occur. And it is by honoring how life comes through us that we get the most out of living, not by keeping ourselves out of the way. The goal is to mix our hands in the earth, not to stay clean.
Mark NepoRead
People have more freedom to bring more of their personal qualities into the role they play once they have established themselves and their competence is no longer in question. But this is always within limits.
Robert GreeneRead
As quickly as you can go 4-1, you can go 1-4. And the whole objective is not to get too high and not to get too low. It's one thing to tell somebody that and explain it, but it's another thing to really buy in, to have felt that and understand what it means to stay even-keel. That's what you have to be in this league.
Sue BirdRead
We have faith that future generations will know here, in the middle of the twentieth century, there came a time when men of good will found a way to unite, and produce, and fight to destroy the forces of ignorance, and intolerance, and slavery, and war.
Franklin D. RooseveltRead
If I'm an ass, I should say so. If I don't, somebody else will. If I say it first, that disarms them.
Charles BukowskiRead
Few people have any next, they live from hand to mouth without a plan, and are always at the end of their line.
Ralph Waldo EmersonRead