Quotes of Littleness - somelinesforyou

“ It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent, so much as the smallness of his wants. ”

- William Cobbett

“ The more we realize our minuteness and our impotence in the face of cosmic forces, the more astonishing becomes what human beings have achieved. ”

- Bertrand Russell

“ The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence. ”

- Charles Colton

“ Why have you brought us here with force? Your authority gives you the right to try a defendant in absentia. Are you trying to overcome your own smallness? ”

- Saddam Hussein

“ Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest. ”

- Victor Hugo

“ Infinities and indivisibles transcend our finite understanding, the former on account of their magnitude, the latter because of their smallness; Imagine what they are when combined. ”

- Galileo Galilei

“ Its smallness is not petty; on the contrary, it is profound. ”

- Jan Morris

“ I have come to realize that all my trouble with living has come from fear and smallness within me. ”

- Angela L. Wozniak

“ The chief proof of mans greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness. ”

- Arthur Conan Doyle

“ To grow is sometimes to hurt; but who would return to smallness? ”

- Sarah Patton Boyle

“ When we are chafed and fretted by small cares, a look at the stars will show us the littleness of our own intersts. ”

- Mara Mitchell

“ Desire for security keeps littleness little and threatens the great with smallness.''. ”

- Unknown

“ Desire for security keeps littleness little and threatens the great with smallness. ”

- Unknown

“ Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life. ”

- Frances Cornford

“ Hatred is the vice of narrow souls; they feed it with all their littleness, and make it the pretext of base tyrannies. ”

- Honore de Balzac
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