Minuteness Quotes

#1. Subtlety will sometimes give safety, no less than strength; and minuteness has sometimes escaped, where magnitude would have been crushed. The little animal that kills the boa is formidable chiefly from its insignificance, which is incompressible by the folds of its antagonist.

Charles Caleb Colton

#2. God is as great in minuteness as He is in magnitude.

Charles Caleb Colton

#3. Greatness is the aggregation of minuteness; nor can its sublimity be felt truthfully by any mind unaccustomed to the affectionate watching of what is least.

John Ruskin

#4. The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence.

Charles Caleb Colton

#5. In Russian administration, minuteness does not exclude disorder. Much trouble is taken to attain unimportant ends, and those employed believe they can never do enough to show their zeal. The result is ... that having passed through one formality does not secure the stranger from another.

Marquis De Custine

#6. As the rays of the sun, notwithstanding their velocity, injure not the eye, by reason of their minuteness, so the attacks of envy, notwithstanding their number, ought not to wound our virtue by reason of their insignificance.

Charles Caleb Colton

#7. Go to the sea or climb the mountain, and with the ruggedest and the savagest you will find likewise the fairest and the most delicate. The greatness and the minuteness of nature pass all understanding.

John Burroughs

#8. The more we realize our minuteness and our impotence in the face of cosmic forces, the more amazing becomes what human beings have achieved.

Bertrand Russell

#9. Balzac's ambition was to be omnipotent. He would be Michelangelesque, and that by sheer force of minuteness. He exaggerated scientifically, and made things gigantic by a microscopic fulness of detail.

William Ernest Henley

#10. The void is 'not-being,' and no part of 'what is' is a 'not-being,'; for what 'is' in the strict sense of the term is an absolute plenum. This plenum, however, is not 'one': on the contrary, it is a 'many' infinite in number and invisible owing to the minuteness of their bulk.

Aristotle.

#11. By only becoming aware of Krishna's greatness we can become aware of our minuteness. That's the way to become Humble.

Bhakti Charu Swami

#12. The ecological challenges we face are the result of billions of ecologically ignorant decisions made by billions of people over centuries. To address the climate crisis, we now need billions of people to make ecologically intelligent decisions.

Allen Hershkowitz

#13. A curiosity prompt heightens the senses and hones compositional ability ...

Robert Genn

#14. Silence across the field. When they reached the edge of the forest, Claire's anxiety faded. It really would be easier

Christine Johnson

#15. How many shots does it take before the concept ay choice becomes obsolete?

Irvine Welsh

#16. Presidents are not permitted to have personal feelings.

William J. Clinton

#17. It's already ended badly. Now it's just a matter of deciding how we meet the consequences.

Sarah J. Maas

#18. Travel was pointless. It removed you from the place in which you had a meaning, and to which you gave meaning in return by dedicating your life to it, and it spirited you away into fairylands where you were, and looked, frankly absurd.

Salman Rushdie

#19. I am not interested in power for power's sake, but I'm interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#20. I don't care if you're so poor you live in a cardboard box, if you fail to graduate high school, or if thousands of miles try to separate us. I'll always love you just as much as i do now.

Samantha Gudger

#21. My major form of exercise is jumping to conclusions.

J. A. Jance

#22. I knew school was stupid since the fifth grade.

Schoolboy Q

#23. Music is the one thing that has been consistently there for me. It hasn't let me down.

Jimmy Page