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The greatest things in the world are brought about by other things which we count as nothing: little causes we overlook but which at…

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

The greatest events occur without intention playing any part in them; chance makes good mistakes and undoes the most carefully planned undertaking. The world's…

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

What wonderful things are events! The least are of greater importance than the most sublime and comprehensive speculations.

— Benjamin Disraeli

“The greatest events- they are not noisiest but our stillest hours. The world revolves, not around the inventors of new noises, but around the…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.

— Jack Kerouac

All things great are wound up with all things little.

— Lucy Maud Montgomery

Many times trivial things become are more important than important things.

— Mak_786

Old truths and ancient magic, revolution and invention, all conspire to distract us from the passion that in one way or another defeats us…

— Anne Rice

The very greatest things - great thoughts, discoveries, inventions - have usually been nurtured in hardship, often pondered over in sorrow, and at length…

— Samuel Smiles

I learnt too late that what is most important to us is always most precious at the moment it occurs, and it is precious…

— Luke Davies

The great and unlooked for discoveries that have taken place of late years have all concurred to lead many men into the opinion that…

— Thomas Malthus

“Most of the things we often consider "important" really aren't that important in the big scheme of things. Life is as simple or as…

— Ricky Martin