Iceberg Quotes

• The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.

  Sigmund Freud

  Leadership, Alzheimer's, Water

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• Like icebergs, people normally expose only a small part of themselves, and generally just the part they wish to show.

  Nikki Yanofsky

  People, Wish, Shows

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  It's easy to look at people and make quick judgments about them, their present and their past, but you'd be amazed at the pain and tears a single smile hides. What a person shows to the world is only one tiny facet of the iceberg hidden from sight. And more often then not, it's lined with cracks and scars that go all the way to the foundation of their soul.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Pain, Past, Sight

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2008). “Acheron: A Dark-Hunter Novel”, p.526, Macmillan

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• People are icebergs. So much of us is underneath.

  Neil Gaiman

  People

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• What we do and accomplish is only the tip of the iceberg of what's possible for us.

  Les Brown

  Inspirational, Tip Of The Iceberg, Accomplish

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• The essence of leadership is being able to see the iceberg before it hits the Titanic.

  Arianna Huffington

  Motivation, Inspiration, Essence

  "How to succeed? Get more sleep". TEDWomen Talk, www.ted.com. December 2010.

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• I always try to write on the principle of the iceberg. There is seven-eighths of it underwater for every part that shows.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Writing, Trying, Principles

  Ernest Hemingway (2015). “Ernest Hemingway: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations”, p.27, Melville House

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• I tell a little bit of my life to them, and they tell a little of theirs to me. The picture itself is just the tip of the iceberg.

  Sebastiao Salgado

  Photography, Tip Of The Iceberg, Littles

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• He was a solemn, unsmiling, sanctimonious old iceberg who looked like he was waiting for a vacancy in the Trinity.

  Mark Twain

  Sarcastic, Waiting, Vacancy

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• Everything - a bird, a tree, even a simple stone, and certainly a human being - is ultimately unknowable. This is because it has unfathomable depth. All we can perceive, experience, think about, is the surface layer of reality, less than the tip of an iceberg. Underneath the surface appearance, everything is not only connected with everything else, but also with the Source of all life out of which it came. Even a stone, and more easily a flower or a bird, could show you the way back to God, to the Source, to yourself.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Flower, Simple, Reality

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.30, Penguin

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• What is powerful is when what you say is just the tip of the iceberg of what you know

  Jim Rohn

  Powerful, Tip Of The Iceberg, Knows

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from May 05, 2017

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• We are like icebergs in the ocean: one-eighth part consciousness and the rest submerged beneath the surface of articulate apprehension.

  William Gerhardie

  Ocean, Consciousness, Beneath The Surface

  1925 Polyglots, ch.14.

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• The vast majority of psychopaths, like an iceberg, are underwater, and like an iceberg, they are inert. They do nothing. They're just there. They torment their spouse by being unempathic, but they don't beat her or kill her. They bully coworkers, but they don't burn the office. They are not dramatic. They are pernicious. Most psychopaths are subtle. They are more like poison than a knife, and they are more like slow-working poison than cyanide.

  Sam Vaknin

  Knives, Office, Bully

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• We always see the point of an iceberg. So I've always accepted the idea that people - they don't necessarily know everything I am.

  Olivier Theyskens

  Ideas, People, Accepted

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• If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Writing, Water, Movement

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• Chumps prefer a beautiful lie to an ugly truth.

  Iceberg Slim

  Beautiful, Lying, Ugly

  Iceberg Slim (2011). “Trick Baby”, p.36, Simon and Schuster

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• our love for the dead, like a floating iceberg, can only be measured by the depths of our resentments.

  Rosario Ferre

  Depth, Floating, Our Love

  Rosario Ferré (1996). “Sweet Diamond Dust: And Other Stories”, Plume Books

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• Just because you see an iceberg does not mean that there isn't global warming.

  John Hodgman

  Mean, Doe, Global Warming

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. October 21, 2008.

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• Icebergs behoove the soul (both being self-made from elements least visible) to see themselves: fleshed, fair, erected, indivisible.

  Elizabeth Bishop

  Self, Soul, Elements

  Elizabeth Bishop, “The Imaginary Iceberg”

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• The basic thing a man should know is how to change a tyre and how to drive a tractor. Whatever that bearded dude is doing on the Dos Equis beer commercials sets the bar. That's your guy. Every man should be aiming to be like him. The beard is just the tip of the iceberg.

  Timothy Olyphant

  Beer, Men, Guy

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• It may be said that poems are in one way like icebergs: only about a third of their bulk appears above the surface of the page.

  Howard Nemerov

  Literature, May, Pages

  Howard Nemerov (1978). “Figures of thought: speculations on the meaning of poetry & other essays”

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• Power is no more than a part, no more than the tip of the iceberg of limitless profundity and sublimate of Karate.

  Mas Oyama

  Tip Of The Iceberg, Karate, Limitless

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• You think about acting kind of as an iceberg where you've got that 5% that you see... but in order to have that 5%... you have to have another 95%.

  Jonathan Tucker

  Thinking, Order, Acting

  "Jonathan Tucker and Olivia Wilde Get Dark with The Black Donnellys". Interview with Evan Jacobs, movieweb.com. March 1, 2007.

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• The optimum population is modeled on the iceberg- eight-ninths below the water line, one-ninth above.

  Aldous Huxley

  Brave New World, Eight, Water

  Peter Edgerly Firchow, Aldous Huxley (1984). “The end of Utopia: a study of Aldous Huxley's Brave new world”, Bucknell Univ Pr

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• I don't want to be buried in the ground, rotting, with all those worms. What I would love is to have my body dropped where you have those big icebergs and the water is so cold and pure, to be eaten by a polar bear or a seal or an otter.

  Jean-Claude Van Damme

  Love Is, Otters, Water

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