Little - Quotes
We know very little, and yet it is astonishing that we know so much, and still more astonishing that so little knowledge can give us so much power.
To me, you are still nothing more than a little boy who is just like a hundred thousand other little boys. And I have no need of you. And you, on your part, have no need of me. To you, I am nothing more than a fox like a hundred thousand other foxes. But if you tame me, then we shall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world.
On a wide view, I could see that it makes little difference whether one dies at the age of thirty or threescore and ten - since, in either case, other men and women will continue living, the world will go on as before.
There`s always someone who collects knowledge, not because of a love of the stuff but in the same way that a magpie collects glitter or a caddis fly collects little bits of twigs and rock.
If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster.
Sometimes the little times you don't think are anything while they're happening turn out to be what marks a whole period of your life.
A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.
I`m selfish, impatient, and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I`m out of control, and at times hard to handle. But if you can`t handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don`t deserve me at my best.
No one ever told me I was pretty when I was a little girl. All little girls should be told they`re pretty, even if they aren`t.
Joy?
A little pearl of the ocean.
Perhaps
By the time I fish it up
I may break it.
My little girl, if you are the heaven
I shall be a star above on high;
My little girl, if you are hell-fire,
To unite us, damned I shall die.
Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.
What a wee little part of a person`s life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself.