Cobwebs quotes
18 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"Sometimes the biggest gain in productive energy will come from cleaning the cobwebs, dealing with old business, and clearing the desks—cutting loose debris that's impeding forward motion."
"Vague memories hang about the mind like cobwebs."
"Habits begin as offhanded remarks, ideas and images. And then, layer upon layer, through practice, they grow from cobwebs into cables that shackle or strengthen our lives."
"Solon used to say that speech was the image of actions; . . . that laws were like cobwebs, - for that if any trifling or powerless thing fell into them, they held it fast; while if it were something weightier, it broke through them and was off."
"Habits are first cobwebs, then cables."
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"Metaphysics is a cobweb that the mind weaves around things."