Small Quotes

8386 Small quotes by 4853 unique authors

God knows that a mother needs fortitude and courage and tolerance and flexibility and patience and firmness and nearly every other brave aspect of the… — Phyllis McGinley
A traveling show visited a country town and one of the acts was advertised as a striptease. A small boy begged his mother for a… — Art Linkletter
Begin to do small things in a great way...You must put the whole power of your great soul into every act. — Wallace D. Wattles
Think of yourself as a container for wealth. If your container is small and your money is big, what's going to happen? You will lose… — T. Harv Eker
The problem is big government. If whoever controls government can impose his way upon you, you have to fight constantly to prevent the control from… — Harry Browne
"It's better to give than to receive." Let me put this as elegantly as possible: "What a crock!" That statement is total hogwash, and in… — T. Harv Eker
The end of the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth century were remarkable for the small amount of scientific movement going on in this… — John Herschel
I want a government small enough to fit inside the Constitution. — Harry Browne
If you have a big problem in your life, all that means is that you are being a small person! — T. Harv Eker
You must acquire the habits and skills of managing a small amount of money before you can have a large amount. — T. Harv Eker
Dr. Johnson ... sometimes employed himself in chymistry, sometimes in watering and pruning a vine, and sometimes in small experiments, at which those who may… — James Boswell
My picture of the world is drawn in perspective and not like a model to scale. The foreground is occupied by human beings and the… — Frank P. Ramsey
The problem [with genetic research] is, we're just starting down this path, feeling our way in the dark. We have a small lantern in the… — Francis Collins
Even those to whom Providence has allotted greater strength of understanding, can expect only to improve a single science. In every other part of learning,… — Samuel Johnson
If the term education may be understood in so large a sense as to include all that belongs to the improvement of the mind, either… — Michael Faraday
Nothing is really small; whoever is open to the deep penetration of nature knows this. — Victor Hugo
Our immediate interests are after all of but small moment. It is what we do for the future, what we add to the sum of… — Willis R. Whitney
Sciences usually advances by a succession of small steps, through a fog in which even the most keen-sighted explorer can seldom see more than a… — James Jeans
The Reader may here observe the Force of Numbers, which can be successfully applied, even to those things, which one would imagine are subject to… — John Arbuthnot
I belonged to a small minority of boys who were lacking in physical strength and athletic prowess. ... We found our refuge in science. ...… — Freeman Dyson
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

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