Small Wisdom Quotes

#1. ...the one small wisdom he has gained from his life is that, when flags start to wave, someone must always refuse to join in.

Steven Heighton

#2. The small wisdom is like water in a glass:
clear, transparent, pure.
The great wisdom is like the water in the sea:
dark, mysterious, impenetrable.

Rabindranath Tagore

#3. How often it is that a small action becomes great by its intention. And how often it is that a great action becomes small by its intention.

Abdullah Ibn Mubarak

#4. All the wisdom in the world cannot put in one's heart the love one yearned for as a small child.

Tian Dayton

#5. It is very hard to be brave," said Piglet, sniffing slightly, "when you're only a Very Small Animal."
Rabbit, who had begun to write very busily, looked up and said: "It is because you are a very small animal that you will be Useful in the adventure before us.

Benjamin Hoff

#6. My childhood library was small enough not to be intimidating. And yet I felt the whole world was contained in those two rooms. I could walk any aisle and smell wisdom.

Rita Dove

#7. There is much that I do not know and I'd like to know even less.

Martin Schuster

#8. Don't try to do great thing, but don't forget to do small things with great care and great love.

Debasish Mridha

#9. If world problems feel too big to tackle, think small. Step by step. Small wins build confidence, lead the way to change.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

#10. Genuine wit implies no small amount of wisdom and culture.

Moses Harvey

#11. THE WISDOM OF THE SPHERES
How instructive
is a star!
It can teach us
from afar
just how small
each other are.

Piet Hein

#12. Do not carry war with you or by small degrees your mind will alter. Her wisdom was still valid.

Laine Cunningham

#13. Small dreams will not take you to the moon. So think big and start dreaming big soon.

Debasish Mridha

#14. There is wisdom in climbing mountains ... For they teach us how truly small we are.

Jeff Wheeler

#15. Do you mind telling me what you pray?"
"I pray for the wisdom to find meaning in the . . . her death."
"And have you?"
"No, Mrs. Aislabie, I find no meaning. But perhaps that's because I'm too small to see a plan so large I rarely get anything but a brief glimpse of it.

Katharine McMahon

#16. There is a pledge of the big and of the small in the infinite.

Dejan Stojanovic

#17. You may have a small body,
but great strength.
You may have an ordinary mind,
but great wisdom.
You may have a wounded heart,
but great courage.
You may have a weary soul,
but great love.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#18. No matter what you do, someone always knew you would.

Ami McKay

#19. Life is too big for small dreams.

Debasish Mridha

#20. Miriva refused to believe that human decency should be a privilege given only to a small few, and when she complained to her mother that she did not want to be a broodmare for the sake of alliances between the villages, her mother slapped her and sent her to the fields to pick mehazi beans

Ash Gray

#21. Our power lies in our small daily choices, one after another, to create eternal ripples of a life well lived.

Mollie Marti

#22. 8. EARTH comprises distances, great and small; danger and security; open ground and narrow passes; the chances of life and death. 9. The COMMANDER stands for the virtues of wisdom, sincerely, benevolence, courage and strictness.

Sun Tzu

#23. Small bait cast properly can catch big fish.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#24. Ask God to fill your mouth with the words you need to say today. No issue is so small that it doesn't require God's wisdom.

Joyce Meyer

#25. He who will lose a present good for one in expectation hath some wit, but a small store of wisdom.

Bias Of Priene

#26. Father, give me the wisdom and discernment to hear Your still, small voice through the loudness of this world.

Anonymous

#27. There is wisdom climbing mountains," Maderos said softly. "For they teach us how truly small we are. This is just a pebble within one kingdom. There are higher mountains you must climb." ~ The Wretched of Muirwood

Jeff Wheeler

#28. Among many events in life, failure is a small event, so ignore it and prepare for another one.

Debasish Mridha

#29. Feeling a little small? Well, in the context of the cosmos, we are small.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#30. Good words - that triumphalism of positivity- but life will claw and eat you - chew you over and over - if you carry such a small knife ...

John Geddes

#31. Little things matter. Even a small tear wets the face.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#32. Don't feel so small and condemn yourself. You are the universe, so love and compliment yourself.

Debasish Mridha

#33. Accept the good, however big or small, with no strings attached.

Charles F. Glassman

#34. Amidst all the criticisms and prejudgement in life, we should strive to do good in return; however small, instead of just turning your back against the world.

Warren Cassell Jr.

#35. It all began with one small shy smile.

Debasish Mridha

#36. You're only as good as your next thought of yourself.

Curtis Tyrone Jones

#37. Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

#38. It's not a matter of how small you are. Still you are important; you matter.

Debasish Mridha

#39. No mother. Two small words, and yet within them lay a bottomless well of pain and loss, a ceaseless mourning for touches that were never received and words of wisdom that were never spoken. No single word was big enough to adequately describe the loss of your mother.

Kristin Hannah

#40. Conventional wisdom suggests the primary motivator for entrepreneurs is money or wealth creation and, in fact, much of the political debate tends to center around what kind of tax or regulatory policy changes will turn corporate suits into small business adventurers overnight.

Chip Conley

#41. Every giver deserves a thank you for a big and small gift because giving is much more beyond friendship and relationship.

Euginia Herlihy

#42. You have behaved in an exemplary manner until now. Even when you could have gained by doing something wrong, you refrained from doing so. You didn't fall prey to the logic of doing a small wrong for the sake of the greater good; of the ends justifying the means. That takes moral courage.

Amish Tripathi

#43. Stop feeling powerless and small when you are adorned with power of love.

Debasish Mridha

#44. Small truths have greater power than big lies.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#45. Make it your habit not to be critical about small things.

Edward Everett Hale

#46. Every once in awhile try to do something nice for somebody you don't know, even if it's just leaving an opening in traffic for them to merge into, small things like that give people hope that we're not all assholes.

Joshua Neik

#47. Repetition. "Don't look for the big, quick improvement. Seek the small improvement one day at a time. That's the only way it happens - and when it happens, it lasts," he wrote in The Wisdom of Wooden.

Daniel Coyle

#48. An great building will never stand if you neglect the small bricks.

Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

#49. An expression of infinite wisdom, as if, in those first days of life, the small person retained the knowledge of a lifetime just passed.

Kate Morton

#50. The most evocative life memories, which produced a synesthesia of emotions, consist of a host of small pleasures intertwined with the homespun stitches of love, affection, kindness, humility, and appreciation of nature.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#51. Great minds seek wisdom.
Average minds seek entertainment.
Small minds seek trouble.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#52. I learned some valuable lessons about the legislative process, the importance of bipartisan cooperation and the wisdom of taking small steps to get a big job done.

Hillary Clinton

#53. Perhaps this was the wisdom with which a child in her position survived: by minimizing her wounds - staying as small as possible, as nearly transparent as possible.

Haruki Murakami

#54. The small man builds cages for everyone he knows While the sage, who has to duck his head when the moon is low, Keeps dropping keys all night long For the beautiful rowdy prisoners.

Hafez

#55. Go to any small village anywhere in the world, and see what they remember. Everything. It's all there
passed on like a precious piece of information, some secret imparted from one who knew to one who yearns to know. Taken good care of.

Alexander McCall Smith

#56. You must do is believe in those small insights - those little bursts of wisdom that bloom in your mind when your heart is calm, controlled, and peaceful.

Jeff Wheeler

#57. John Adams was a farmer, Abraham Lincoln a small town lawyer. Plato and Socrates were teachers. Jesus was a carpenter. To equate wisdom and judgement with occupation is at best insulting.

Mark Sheppard

#58. The lines in the corners of her eyes spoke of years of wisdom, as a tree with the number of rings increasing with each passing year. She was a small frame of a woman with piercing eyes that suggested that they knew you, understood you even.

F.C. Malby

#59. Leave greatness to others. Become so small that no one can see you. This conviction results from growing devotion to the supreme reality.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#60. I liked being with the books: they reminded me of how many ways of thinking existed outside my own - how small and fleeting my pulse was when set alongside those ageing spines.

Joanna Rossiter

#61. If small groups are included in the decision-making process, then they should be allowed to make decisions. If an organization sets up teams and then uses them for purely advisory purposes, it loses the true advantage that a team has: namely, collective wisdom.

James Surowiecki

#62. There is small disproportion betwixt a fool who useth not wit because he hath it not and him that useth it not when it should avail him.

Elizabeth I

#63. God's genius is as wide as the cosmos, while by comparison our intelligence can find room on the head of a pin.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#64. Happiness is there where wants and needs are small, but the desire to give is big.

Debasish Mridha

#65. He thought others were small; that was his greatness.

Dejan Stojanovic

#66. Maybe that's enlightenment enough: to know that there is no final resting place of the mind; no moment of smug clarity. Perhaps wisdom ... is realizing how small I am, and unwise, and how far I have yet to go. -Anthony Bourdain

Anthony Bourdain

#67. A most insidious form of fear is that which masquerades as common sense or even wisdom, condemning as foolish, reckless, insignificant or futile the small, daily acts of courage which help to preserve man's self-respect and inherent human dignity.

Aung San Suu Kyi

#68. You cannot tell a poor boy from a small country town on the plains of South Dakota who has had the opportunity to be a teacher, a mayor, a senator, and a vice president, that America is not a nation of promise.

Hubert H. Humphrey

#69. Certainty shuts down possibilities and keeps us small.

L.R.W. Lee

#70. And once again, only the Small Things were said. The Big Things lurked unsaid inside.

Arundhati Roy

#71. Being naive simply means that we reject received wisdom that something is a problem. We are always naive relative to some definition of the situation, and if we try to become less so, we may accept a definition that confines the definition of small wins to narrower issues than is necessary.

Karl E. Weick

#72. My heart is so small it's almost invisible. How can You place such big sorrows in it? "Look," He answered, "your eyes are even smaller, yet they behold the world.

Rumi

#73. Like small children you must have a very clean heart to accept, to absorb the beauty of peace that is within you and also the beauty of purity. Without purity, you cannot enjoy anything.

Nirmala Srivastava

#74. On his daughter Malala Yousafzai: When she was very small I used to say to her, 'tell me Malala, how is the school going?' And she'd say 'it is so-so, you should change this and this ... ' I trusted her wisdom.

Ziauddin Yousafzai

#75. Develop the winning edge; small differences in your performance can lead to large differences in your results.

Brian Tracy

#76. Unforgiveness,
splinter in your breastbone, lives
there lodged like a small tree.
Withers in winter, looms
in spring. Its fruit is sweet
on first bite, then turns
into the taste of your own flesh.

Katerina Stoykova Klemer

#77. I know not how I may seem to others, but to myself I am but a small child wandering upon the vast shores of knowledge, every now and then finding a small bright pebble to content myself with

Plato

#78. Love, no matter how small, begets kindness.
Joy, no matter how small, begets cheerfulness.
Wisdom, no matter how small, begets intelligence.
Faith, no matter how small, begets persistence.
Genius, no matter how small, begets excellence.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#79. It's important to look at the big picture of life, as long as it's not through a small screen

Benny Bellamacina

#80. It is worth remembering one of the important lessons of the Buck story: a small number of zealous advocates can have an impact on the law that defies both science and conventional wisdom.

Paul A. Lombardo

#81. It is not so much the major events as the small day-to-day decisions that map the course of our living ... Our lives are, in reality, the sum total of our seemingly unimportant decisions and of our capacity to live by those decisions.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#82. One of the Seven [wise men of Greece] was wont to say: That laws were like cobwebs, where the small flies are caught and the great break through.

Francis Bacon

#83. It is like employing a small tool on big constructions, if we use human wisdom in the hunt for knowledge of reality.

Gregory Of Nazianzus

#84. With the wisdom of people not in love who believe a man of sense should be unhappy only over a person who is worth it; which is rather like being surprised that anyone should condescend to suffer from cholera because of so small a creature as the comma bacillus.

Marcel Proust

#85. It is wisdom, worldly wisdom, to administer even health to oneself for a long time in small doses.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#86. The world is always changed by people who don't listen to conventional wisdom. I think we often set our goals too small and try to accomplish them too quickly.

Rick Warren

#87. Fish are small, but do not drown in the sea. Ships are big, but sink in the ocean.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#88. To all the young people out there who think money and fame is important: that's only a small piece of the pie. You need an education to be totally secure in life. I feel very secure I can go get a real job now.

Shaquille O'Neal

#89. You're only as good as you're next thought of yourself.

Curtis Tyrone Jones

#90. If you can understand the purpose of a small tree, you will be able to understand yourself and become free.

Debasish Mridha

#91. We should've been different breeds. There can only be one lion in a small cage. It's not important if the other lion is sleeping or crouching in the corner. The only important thing is that ... it's a lion.

Seyoung Kim

#92. It seems to me a proof of the small advance our race has made in true wisdom, that we find it so hard to give up doing anything we have meant to do.

William Dean Howells

#93. Great ideas and small consistent actions with love can change the world from above.

Debasish Mridha

#94. We are all small-minded people, creeping about the earth grubbing for our own advantage and making the very mistakes for which we want to humiliate our neighbors.

Helen Simonson

#95. Small moments we find so pointless can become cherished memories with time and the perspective that wisdom brings.

Brandy Nacole