Small Quotes
8386 quotes by 4853 authors
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Passing just lately over this lake, ... and examining this water next day, I found floating therein divers earthy particles, and some green streaks, spirally…
— Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
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And since the portions of the great and the small are equal in number, so too all things would be in everything. Nor is it…
— Anaxagoras
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Man is a little germ that lives on an unimportant rock ball that revolves about a small star at the outskirts of an ordinary galaxy.…
— Alan Watts
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I do not understand modern physics at all, but my colleagues who know a lot about the physics of very small things, like the particles…
— Lewis Thomas
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Modern neurosis began with the discoveries of Copernicus. Science made men feel small by showing him that the earth was not the center of the…
— Mary McCarthy
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Science is complex and chilling. The mathematical language of science is understood by very few. The vistas it presents are scary-an enormous universe ruled by…
— Isaac Asimov
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The Builder of this Universe was wise, He plann'd all souls, all systems, planets, particles: The Plan He shap'd all Worlds and Æons by, Was-Heavens!-was…
— Thomas Carlyle
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What a deep faith in the rationality of the structure of the world and what a longing to understand even a small glimpse of the…
— Albert Einstein
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The truly scientific mind is altogether unafraid of the new, and while having no mercy for ideas which have served their turn or shown their…
— Wilfred Trotter
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It seems that, after nineteen centuries of extraordinary glorification, the small Host for which so many cathedrals have sprung up, the small Host that has…
— Francois Mauriac
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We, whoever we are, must have a daily goal in our lives, no matter how small or great, to make that day mean something.
— Maxwell Maltz
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As small as it may seem, a good deed is always worth the doing.
— Spark Matsunaga
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We are much harder on people who betray us in small ways than on people who betray others in great ones.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Don't like small talk, love rainy days.
— Melissa Gilbert
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The country is now universally recognised as a nation on the move and takes its place amongst the successful economies in the region. The future…
— Ratan Tata
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The beginnings of all things are small.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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God's heart is the most sensitive and tender of all. No act goes unnoticed, no matter how insignificant or small.
— Richard J. Foster
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No man but feels more of a man in the world if he have a bit of ground that he can call his own. However…
— Charles Dudley Warner
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And gain is gain, however small.
— Robert Browning
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Just two small things: meditation and let-go. Remember these two key words: meditation and surrender. Meditation will take you in, and surrender will take you…
— Rajneesh
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