Small Quotes

8386 quotes by 4853 authors

A scientist is in a sense a learned small boy. There is something of the scientist in every small boy. Others must outgrow it. Scientists… — George Wald
They will have the World to be in Large, what a Watch is in Small; which is very regular, and depends only upon the just… — Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle
As for the search for truth, I know from my own painful searching, with its many blind alleys, how hard it is to take a… — Albert Einstein
[When nature appears complicated:] The moment we contemplate it as it is, and attain a position from which we can take a commanding view, though… — John Herschel
Perspective is a most subtle discovery in mathematical studies, for by means of lines it causes to appear distant that which is near, and large… — Leonardo da Vinci
I now never make the preparations for penetrating into some small province of nature hitherto undiscovered without breathing a prayer to the Being who hides… — Louis Agassiz
I also require much time to ponder over the matters themselves, and particularly the principles of mechanics (as the very words: force, time, space, motion… — Heinrich Hertz
The proof given by Wright, that non-adaptive differentiation will occur in small populations owing to "drift," or the chance fixation of some new mutation or… — Julian Huxley
I believe quite simply that the small company of the future will be as much a research organization as it is a manufacturing company. — Edwin Land
A great biography should, like the close of a great drama, leave behind it a feeling of serenity. We collect into a small bunch the… — Andre Maurois
Reason guides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false, and passion, good or bad. — Philibert Joseph Roux
I think that one of the causes of these repeated failures is that our best and greatest men have greatly underestimated the size of this… — Abraham Lincoln
Not the maker of plans and promises, but rather the one who offers faithful service in small matters. This is the person who is most… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
No country can sustain, in idleness, more than a small percentage of its numbers. The great majority must labor at something productive. — Abraham Lincoln
The real difference of interests, lay not between large and small, but between the Northern and Southern states. The institution of slavery and its consequences… — James Madison
In countries where breast-feeding has stopped, more smoking will automatically be there. That's why the West smokes more than the East - because no mother… — Rajneesh
Small children smoking, and the mother is not aware that it is because the breast has been taken away. In all primitive communities a seven-year-old… — Rajneesh
I have just instructed Laxmi to make a small temple for smoking here in the ashram. But you have to go very alert, aware, meditative!… — Rajneesh
Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football. — John Heisman
The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it. — Christian Nestell Bovee

Who Wrote These Small Quotes

4,853 authors contributed a total of 8,386 Small Quotes, led by these top contributors: