Trifling Quotes
87 quotes by 74 authors
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A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones.
— Lord Chesterfield
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People talk about imitating Christ, and imitate Him in the little trifling formal things, such as washing the feet, saying His prayer, and so on;…
— Florence Nightingale
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A warrior should not say something fainthearted, even casually. He should set his mind to this beforehand. Even in trifling matters the depths of one's…
— Yamamoto Tsunetomo
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Prayer covers the whole of man's life. There is no thought, feeling, yearning, or desire, however low, trifling, or vulgar we may deem it, which…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Phantoms in general are nothing more than trifling disorders of the spirit; images we cannot contain within the bounds of sleep.
— Luigi Pirandello
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Every phenomenon, however trifling it be, has a cause, and a mind infinitely powerful, and infinitely well-informed concerning the laws of nature could have foreseen…
— Henri Poincare
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A lack of patience in trifling matters might lead to the disruption of great project.
— Confucius
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However insignificant the minority, and however trifling the proposed trespass against their rights, no such trespass is permissible.
— Herbert Spencer
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What struck me most in England was the perception that only those works which have a practical tendency awake attention and command respect, while the…
— Justus von Liebig
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If I set for myself a task, be it so trifling, I shall see it through. How else shall I have confidence in myself to…
— George S. Clason
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False is the idea of utility that sacrifices a thousand real advantages for one imaginary or trifling inconvenience; that would take fire from men because…
— Cesare Beccaria
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First, there is the power of the Wind, constantly exerted over the globe... Here is an almost incalculable power at our disposal, yet how trifling…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Nothing has a greater tendency to lessen the reverence which mankind ought to have for the Supreme Being, than a careless repetition of his name…
— Noah Webster
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The trifling economy of paper, as a cheaper medium, or its convenience for transmission, weighs nothing in opposition to the advantages of the precious metals…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Silence - Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversation.
— Benjamin Franklin
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There is no real education that does not respond to felt need; anything else acquired is trifling display.
— Allan Bloom
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There are many points in the history of an invention which the inventor himself is apt to overlook as trifling, but in which posterity never…
— David Brewster
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Asceticism is the trifling of an enthusiast with his power, a puerile coquetting with his selfishness or his vanity, in the absence of any sufficiently…
— Florence Nightingale
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There is something in the decay of nature that awakens thought, even in the most trifling mind.
— Sarah Josepha Hale
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Everything I have written up to now is trifling compared to that which I would like to write and would write with great pleasureEither I…
— Anton Chekhov
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