Small Number Quotes

78 Small Number quotes by 70 unique authors

We are dominated by the relatively small number of persons who understand the mental processes and social patterns of the masses. It is they who… — Edward Bernays
Religious truth is captive in a small number of little manuscripts which guard the common treasures, instead of expanding them. Let us break the seal… — Johannes Gutenberg
God suffers in the multitude of souls whom His word can not reach. Religious truth is imprisoned in a small number of manuscript books, which… — Johannes Gutenberg
The history of atomism is one of reductionism – the effort to reduce all the operations of nature to a small number of laws governing… — Leon M. Lederman
To exact of every man who writes that he should say something new, would be to reduce authors to a small number; to oblige the… — Samuel Johnson
Among top grandmasters the Dutch is a rare defense, which is good reason to play it! It has not been studied very deeply by many… — Bent Larsen
Taste is the best judge. It is rare. Art only addresses itself to an excessively small number of individuals. — Paul Cezanne
Holiness is not reserved for a small number of exceptional persons. It is for everyone. It is the Lord who brings us to holiness when… — Pope John Paul II
Unfortunately, there is something of a flaw in this idealized picture of the way the scientific community discovers truth. And the flaw is that most… — James Surowiecki
With God's help, you will continue to succeed in your leadership and in your duties, because Our Lord's work is accomplished not so much by… — Vincent de Paul
To this must be added that the hiring of labor and the conduct of trade are concentrated in the hands of comparatively few; so that… — Pope Leo XIII
While reading writers of great formulatory power — Henry James, Santayana, Proust — I find I can scarcely get through a page without having to… — Joseph Epstein
People read the papers not in the hopes of learning something new, but in the expectation of being told what they already know. This is… — Roger Ebert
There is no doubt that, with the exception of a very small number of people close to a vicious regime, the people of Iraq have… — Richard Perle
We've had risk assessments performed by Harvard University, which said that even if we did have a small number of cases in this country that… — Ann Veneman
What does gene A do? What does gene B do? What does it do in different contexts? What's its importance? We know the answer to… — David Baltimore
Unfortunately, only a small number of patients with peptic ulcer are financially able to make a pet of an ulcer. — William James Mayo
A life is made up of a great number of small incidents, and a small number of great ones. — Roald Dahl
There is a progression of understanding vis-a-vis pro football that varies drastically with the factor of distance -- physical, emotional, intellectual and every other way.… — Hunter S. Thompson
It would be a very bad idea... to exhibit even a small number of this new series, as the whole effect can only be achieved… — Claude Monet
One of our anxieties is de-focusing the relatively small number of engineers we have. Within our own core development, I am reluctant to fund projects… — Howard Hughes
We live in a scientific age, yet we assume that knowledge of science is the prerogative of only a small number of human beings, isolated… — Rachel Carson
Civilization is maintained by a very few people in a small number of places and we need only some bombs and a few prisons to… — Cyril Connolly
The campaign against the death penalty has been - while a powerful campaign, its participants have been those who attend all of the vigils, a… — Angela Davis
An aria in an opera - Handel's 'Ombra mai fu,' for example - gets along with an incredibly small number of words and ideas and… — James Fenton

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