Insignificant Quotes
Science is the most intimate school of resignation and humility, for it teaches us to bow before the seemingly most insignificant of facts.
If someone separated the art of counting and measuring and weighing from all the other arts, what was left of each (of the others) would be, so to speak, insignificant.
When you understand that life is a test, you realize that nothing is insignificant in your life.
All knowledge is good. It is impossible to say any fragment of knowledge, however insignificant or remote from one's ordinary pursuits, may not some day be turned to account.
It's like you have a child and you think, 'Everything that I've done up until this point is insignificant in comparison to being a father.' It's a beautiful, beautiful thing.
... God uses such seemingly insignificant ways to prepare us for the plan He has for our lives.
This is not something insignificant. This is real. This is happening, and this is ours.
I know it may seem small and insignificant, but it's not about what it is, it's about what it can become. That's not a seed, any more than you're just a boy.
We're too insignificant and small to really be able to do anything, except cry, not unhappily, but an inner cry, a feeling of reaching to God.
We have a tendency to condemn people who are different from us, to define their sins as paramount and our own sinfulness as being insignificant.
I got incredibly heavy boots about how relatively insignificant life is, and how, compared to the universe and compared to time, it didn’t even matter if I existed at all.
Productivity is a relative matter. And it's really insignificant: What is ultimately important is a writer's strongest books.
The real end of the world is the destruction of the spirit; the other kind depends on the insignificant attempt to see whether after such a destruction the world can go on.
It is better to be unsuccessful pursuing a significant goal that being successful attaining an insignificant one.
What is a tiny insignificant seed that, when Spring arrives, It should not be annihilated for a tree to arrive.
The title of Ultracrepidarian critics has been given to those persons who find fault with small and insignificant details.
It is better to be doing the most insignificant thing than to reckon even a half-hour insignificant.
You can feel small, insignificant and insubstantial, but knowing the universe is in your tiny body should be enough to make you happy.
I think, myself, that one's memories represent those moments which, insignificant as they may seem, nevertheless represent the inner self and oneself as most really oneself.
If God lets me live, I shall attain more than Mummy ever has done, I shall not remain insignificant, I shall work in the world and for mankind!
If I make a wrong decision, I worry what might have been. I stress out over very insignificant things.
We're not talking about insignificant amounts of code. It's substantial System V code showing up in Linux.
Once a year, she remembers that she is insignificant. Then she forgets agains, because more than she is insignificant, she is forgetful.
Stop attaching so much weight to being right. In the grand scheme of things, being right is insignificant compared with being happy.
How great seems human progress when we consider where it began, and how insignificant, when we contemplate the goals for which itstrives.
Heroism--that is the disposition of a man who aspires to a goal compared to which he himself is wholly insignificant. Heroism is the good will to self-destruction.
The little things that happen. Sometimes they're insignificant; other times, they change everything.
If ever I did a man any goodof course it was something exceptional and insignificant compared with the good or evil which I am constantly doing by being what I am.
A man must be of a very quiet and happy nature, who can long endure the country; and, moreover, very well contented with his own insignificant person.
The idea of Jehovah was born here... Out of the rude elements of the insignificant thoughts thoughts that are in all men, they reared the transcendent conception of a God.
Of all human events, perhaps, the publication of a first volume of verses is the most insignificant; but though a matter of no moment to the world, it is still of some concern to the author.
Insignificant mortals, who are as leaves are, and now flourish and grow warm with life, and feed on what the ground gives, but then again fade away and are dead.
How slight and insignificant is the thing which casts down or restores a mind greedy for praise.
It was quite an insignificant looking sheet, but no sooner did the American eagle catch sight of it, than he swooned and fell off his perch.
I sit and pass judgment on myself: this is dull, this is unclear, this is insignificant: ergo I am dull, I am unclear, I am insignificant.
No one on earth is so boring and insignificant that he or she is not worth writing or reading about...One thing's for sure—no one but you can be the hero of your story.
Plants and flowers of the commonest kind can form a pleasing diary, because nothing which calls back to us the remembrance of a happy moment can be insignificant.
In society every man is taken for what he gives himself out to be; but he must give himself out to be something. Better to be slightly disagreeable than altogether insignificant.
Have respect for every person and every issue directed at you. Do not dismiss any encounter as insignificant.
I was quite able at the insignificant work I did in MI6, but absolutely dysfunctional in my domestic life. I had no experience of fatherhood. I had no example of marital bliss or the family unit.
I used to wonder how a man of birth and spirit could endure to be wholly insignificant and obscure in a foreign country, when he might live with lustre in his own.
If there was one thing I refused to be, it was an insignificant footnote in some boy's history.
The whole world says that my Way is great like nothing else. It is great because it is like nothing else. If it were like everything else, it would long ago have become insignificant.
An ignorant man is insignificant and contemptible; nobody cares for his company, and he can just be said to live, and that is all.