Quotes About Magnitude

If you do big things they print your face, and if you do little things they print only your thumbs.

The consequences of things are not always proportionate to the apparent magnitude of those events that have produced them. Thus the American Revolution, from which little was expected, produced much; but the French Revolution, from which much was expected, produced little.

A penny will hide the biggest star in the Universe if you hold it close enough to your eye.

We are easily shocked by crimes which appear at once in their full magnitude, but the gradual growth of our own wickedness, endeared by interest, and palliated by all the artifices of self-deceit, gives us time to form distinctions in our own favor,

Mt. Everest of Earth is 8.8 km tall; Mt. Olympus of Mars is 22 km tall. Every time you see a giant, you must know that that giant might be just a dwarf somewhere else!

It's easier to imagine the death of one person than those of a hundred or a thousand. When multiplied, suffering becomes abstract. It's not easy to be moved by abstract things.

God is great not just because nothing is too big for Him. God is great because nothing is too small for Him, either.

A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what has a beginning and middle and end.

For to define the infinite you must use quantity in your formula, but not substance or quality. If then Being is both substance and quantity, it is two, not one: if only substance, it is not infinite and has no magnitude; for to have that it will have to be a quantity. Again, (5) 'one' itself, no less than 'being', is used in many senses, so we must consider in what sense the word is used when it is said that the All is one.

Being will not have magnitude, if it is substance. For each of the two parts must be in a different sense.

The chief proof of man's real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness.

Nada es pequeño para una inteligencia grande.

If we have a heart for the magnitudes of life, it will not seem vain to believe that God Himself should guard it.

Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading.

Time is heavy sometimes; imagine how heavy eternity must be.

If he loved with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn't love as much in eighty years as I could in a day.

If he loved with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn't love as much in eighty years as I could in a day.

Now that free government is in Europe so rare and in America so distant, the opinion, even the incomplete, erroneous, rapid opinion of the free English people is invaluable. It may be very wrong, but it is sure to be unique; and if it is right it is sure to contain matter of great magnitude, for it is only a first-class matter in distant things which a free people ever sees or learns.

you find yourself face-to-face with the enormousness of the world as a whole.

He had made a discovery of the first magnitude. It opened up an entirely new approach to physics, which led to statistical mechanics, to a proper understanding of thermodynamics and to the use of probability distributions in quantum mechanics. If he had done nothing else, this breakthrough would have been enough to put him among the world's great scientists.

Los creadores, los descubridores científicos, quienes reinan en la política y en la guerra, forjan nuestro mundo. No son como nosotros. De ahí nuestra furibunda esperanza de olfatear algún defecto en su magnitud; de reducirlos a nuestro propio, insignificante tamaño.

Only this flat top is twice as big as a carrier." Benny

Loss is so paradoxical: It is at once enormous and tiny.

Sounded big," DeVontay said. "It's all relative. Bigger than a car, smaller than a house.