Best empty & empty-heads Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Blind self-love, vanity, lifting aloft her empty head, and indiscretion, prodigal of secrets more transparent than glass, follow close behind.”

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Author:Horace

“And empty heads console with empty sound.”

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Book:The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot, being the prologue to the satires. Satires, epistles, and odes of Horace imitated. Epitaphs. The Dunciad, in four books

Source: The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot, being the prologue to the satires. Satires, epistles, and odes of Horace imitated. Epitaphs. The Dunciad, in four books

“Empty heads, cognitive science has taught us, learn nothing. The powerful cultural and personal flexibility of our species is owed at least in part to our starting off so well-informed; we are good learners because we know what to pay attention to and what questions are the right ones to ask.”

Knows Wells Asks Powerful Pay Attention Taught Empty Species Starting Pay Attention Flexibility Cognitive Taught Us Learners Cognitive Science Empty Heads

Author:Paul Bloom

“An open mind but not an empty head.”

Mind Empty Open Mind Empty Heads

Author:Edward Tufte

“When a poor disconsolated drooping creature is terrified from all enjoyment,--prays without ceasing 'till his imagination is heated,--fasts and mortifies and mopes, till his body is in as bad a plight as his mind; is it a wonder, that the mechanical disturbancesof an empty belly, interpreted by an empty head, should be mistook for [the] workings [of God].”

Should Mind Body Imagination Poor Wonder Praying Creatures Empty Enjoyment Terrified Belly Plight Empty Heads

Author:Laurence Sterne

“Indolent people, whatever taste they may have for society, seek eagerly for pleasure, and find nothing. They have an empty head and seared hearts.”

People Heart May Pleasure Taste Empty Idleness Empty Heads

Author:Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

“An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head.”

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Author:Eric Hoffer

“An open mind isn't the same thing as an empty head.”

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Book:Life's Greatest Lessons: 20 Things That Matter

Source: Life's Greatest Lessons: 20 Things That Matter

“The God of the theologians is the creation of their empty heads.”

Creation Empty Theologian Empty Heads

Author:Benito Mussolini

“Artificial glamor-false eyelashes, that sort of thing-usually is put on to hide a vacuum. The most beautiful face can only look vacuous if it masks an empty head.”

Ifs Looks Beautiful Faces Empty Mask Artificial Vacuums Eyelashes Beautiful Face Vacuous Empty Heads

Author:Peter Ustinov

“Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.”

“A great deal of learning can be packed into an empty head.”

Deals Empty Emptiness Empty Heads

Author:Karl Kraus

“Empty pockets make empty heads.”

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Book:The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams: 1939-1962

Source: The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams: 1939-1962

“Of all the people expressing their mental vacuity, none has a better excuse for an empty head than the newspaperman: If he pauses to restock his brain, he invites onrushing deadlines to trample him flat. Broadcasting the contents of empty minds is what most of us do most of the time, and nobody more relentlessly than I.”

People Ifs Mind Brain Empty Excuse Journalism Flats Invites Pauses Deadline Broadcasting Empty Mind Vacuity Empty Heads

Book:There's a Country in My Cellar

Source: There's a Country in My Cellar

“Did your mother never tell you not to drink on an empty head?”

Humor Funny Mother Drink Empty Empty Heads

Author:Billy Connolly

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