Scanty Quotes
How pathetically scanty my self-knowledge is compared with, say, my knowledge of my room. There is no such thing as observation of the inner world, as there is of the outer world.
Tags: Inner, Knowledge, Room ✍ Author: Franz KafkaThe abilities of man must fall short on one side or the other, like too scanty a blanket when you are abed. If you pull it upon your shoulders, your feet are left bare; if you thrust it down to your feet, your shoulders are uncovered.
Tags: Fall, Left, Short ✍ Author: Thomas PaineWithout any assistance whatever, I founded a school in Weimar in 10 years. Only I could perform certain works with the scanty means that I dared not ask anyone else to work with.
Tags: Else, School, Work ✍ Author: Franz LisztThe Legislature of Lower Canada, consisting chiefly of Roman Catholics, could hardly be expected to support a church which they were taught to consider heretical, and in Upper Canada the scanty means at the disposal of the Government, precluded all hope.
Tags: Government, Hope, Means ✍ Author: John Strachan