Quotes on Littles

If the people were a little more ignorant, astrology would flourish - if a little more enlightened, religion would perish.

Gratitude is here presented as more than a feeling, a virtue, or an experience; gratitude emerges as an attitude we can freely choose in order to create a better life for ourselves and for others. The Nigerian Hausa put it this way: Give thanks for a little and you will find a lot.

The liberty of the whole earth was depending on the issue of the contest, and was ever such a prize won with so little innocent blood?

My life has crept so long on a broken wing Through cells of madness, haunts of horror and fear, That I come to be grateful at last for a little thing.

It is quite true that many scientists, many physicists, maintain that the physical constants, the half dozen or so numbers that physicists have to simply assume in order to derive the rest of their understanding ... have to be assumed. You can't provide a rationale for why those numbers are there. Physicists have calculated that if any of these numbers was a little bit different, the universe as we know it wouldn't exist.

Mix a little mystery with everything, for mystery arouses veneration.

I [i.e., God] have given you baptism as a gift for the forgiveness of sins, and preach to you unceasingly by word of mouth concerning this treasure, sealing it with the Sacrament of my body and blood, so that you need never doubt. True, it seems little and insignificant that by the washing of water, the Word, and the Sacrament this should all be effected. But don't let your eyes deceive you.

It will be possible in a few more years to build radio controlled rockets which can be steered into such orbits beyond the limits of the atmosphere and left to broadcast scientific information back to the Earth. A little later, manned rockets will be able to make similar flights with sufficient excess power to break the orbit and return to Earth. (1945) [Predicting communications satellites.]

The things of this world take up too much of my time, of which indeed I have too little left, to undertake anything like a reformation in religion.

The infant periods of most nations are buried in silence or veiled in fable; and the world perhaps has lost but little which it needs regret. The origin and outset of the American Republic contain lessons of which posterity ought not to be deprived: and happily there never was a case in which every interesting incident could be so accurately preserved.

A man with an obsession is a man who has very little sales resistance.

I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one. And I'm still fanatical, but now I'm a little less fanatical.

Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

I started writing while I was a little boy. Maybe it's because I was reading a lot of books I admired, and thought that I would like to write something like that someday. Also, my love for good writing pushed me.

The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone, but never hustled.

If they would teach us from the time we're little to meditate and get in touch with all that our souls know, we wouldn't fight so much.

Only mathematics and mathematical logic can say as little as the physicist means to say.

If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again.

In nature's infinite book of secrecy_x000D_ _x000D_ A little I can read.

The errors of great men are venerable because they are more fruitful than the truths of little men.

To teach vain Wits that Science little known,_x000D_ _x000D_ T' admire Superior Sense, and doubt their own!