Quotes About Littleness

Big rocks are envy of little sands because little sands can travel with the winds. Every littleness has its own big advantages!

It needeth us to have knowing of the littleness of creatures and to hold as nought all-thing that is made, for to love and have God that is unmade.

God would never inspire me with desires which cannot be realized; so in spite of my littleness, I can hope to be a saint.

Far more, however, has knowledge suffered from littleness of spirit and the smallness and slightness of the tasks which human industry has proposed to itself.

Far more, however, has knowledge suffered from littleness of spirit and the smallness and slightness of the tasks which human industry has proposed to itself. And what is worst of all, this very littleness of spirit comes with a certain air of arrogance and superiority.

He felt obscurely the dividedness of his being, the extent of what was gross, the littleness and value of what was not.

No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness, than disbelief in great men.

No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.

Every poet... finds himself born in the midst of prose. He has to struggle from the littleness and obstruction of an actual world into the freedom and infinitude of an ideal.

she hated and detested Nicholas with all the narrowness of mind and littleness of purpose worthy a descendant of the house of Squeers.

We talked this afternoon of worlds That herd within the sky; Of all the majesty and reach Of stellar space, till I Was grateful to the ladybug That crawled across my dress, Just for its foolish speckled back, And for its littleness.

It has sunk him, I cannot say how much it has sunk him in my opinion. So unlike what a man should be!-None of that upright integrity, that strict adherence to truth and principle, that distain of trick and littleness, which a man should display in every transaction of his life.

And it never enters anyone's head that the recognition of a greatness not measurable by the measure of good and bad is only a recognition of one's own insignificance and immeasurable littleness. For us, with the measures of good and bad given us by Christ, nothing is immeasurable. And there is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness, and truth.

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

...greatness sympathises with greatness, and littleness shrinks into itself.

Big rocks are envy of little sands because little sands can travel with the winds. Every littleness has its own big advantages!

For all my wanderings, I'm ordinary. I came to terms long ago with my littleness. A man is what he is--he can't rise so much as an inch above his shortcomings--Horatio Alger be damned!

But to grasp my theme in its true proportions, it is necessary to do more than calculate. It is necessary to brood upon these magnitudes, to draw out the mind toward them, to feel the littleness of your here and now, and of the moment of civilization which you call history.