Small Quotes

8386 Small quotes by 4853 unique authors

The heart of mathematics consists of concrete examples and concrete problems. Big general theories are usually afterthoughts based on small but profound insights; the insights… — Paul Halmos
An axiomatic system establishes a reverberating relationship between what a mathematician assumes (the axioms) and what he or she can derive (the theorems). In the… — David Berlinski
The reduced variability of small populations is not always due to accidental gene loss, but sometimes to the fact that the entire population was started… — Ernst Mayr
It is important to have determination and optimism and patience. If you lack patience, even when you face some small obstacle, you lose courage. There… — Dalai Lama
It's not just about being small, it's about doing more with less. — Greg McAdoo
I try to keep the meetings small, especially when we're doing product design. — Justin Kan
The events of September 11 and what has happened since have made people understand that even a small, distant and far away country like Afghanistan… — Lakhdar Brahimi
I stuck with that size because I could bend the strings so well, and somewhere along the line I must have gotten it into my… — John Fogerty
The one who will be found in trial capable of great acts of love is ever the one who is always doing considerate small ones. — Frederick William Robertson
Only the small secrets need to be protected. The large ones are kept secret by public incredulity. — Marshall McLuhan
This planet is not terra firma. It is a delicate flower and it must be cared for. It's lonely. It's small. It's isolated, and there… — Scott Carpenter
Make the small big and the few many. — Laozi
Well, I love having kids. But I have the advantage of having a lot of help, a real hands-on husband and small children whom I… — Jane Kaczmarek
It (Tao) is eternally without desire. So, it can be called small. All things return to it, although it does not make itself their ruler.… — Laozi
Meet the big while it is small. — Laozi
The biggest in the world is small in its beginning. — Laozi
The small is easy to scatter. — Laozi
Let the country be small, and the inhabitants few. — Laozi
If a great country yields to a small country, it will conquer the small country. If a small country yields to a great country, it… — Laozi
A great country needs more people to serve it. A small country needs more people to serve. So, if both shall get what they need,… — Laozi
Seeing the small is called clarity. — Laozi
I want my world to get bigger and not end up in a small corner. — Sarah Polley
We must break problems down into small, digestible bits. We must define the concepts that we use and explain what components they consist of. We… — Abdolkarim Soroush
What is this? It is a prolate spheroid, an elongated sphere-in which the outer leather casing is drawn tightly over a somewhat smaller rubber tubing.… — John Heisman
It's no small irony that the government inevitably and invariably ends up promoting precisely that which they would most like to repress. — Jock Sturges

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