Every man with a little leisure and enough money for railway tickets, every man, indeed, who knows how to read, has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.
—Aldous Huxley
Oh Lord, when I think how little I have done, I am ashamed and confounded, and I would fain honour God more than I have yet done.
—William Wilberforce
I try more and more to be myself, caring relatively little whether people approve or disapprove.
—Vincent Van Gogh
The weather and my mood have little connection. I have my foggy and my fine days within me; my prosperity or misfortune has little to do with the matter.
—Blaise Pascal
I suspect I have been allotting habitually too little time to religious exercises, as private devotion, religious meditation, Scripture reading, etc. Hence I am lean, and cold, and hard.
—William Wilberforce
How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!
—Thomas Jefferson
Sometimes I speak to men and women just as a little girl speaks to her doll. She knows, of course, that the doll does not understand her, but she creates for herself the joy of communication through a pleasant and conscious self-deception.
—Arthur Schopenhauer
Don’t you know that a midnight hour comes when everyone has to take off his mask? Do you think life always lets itself be trifled with? Do you think you can sneak off a little before midnight to escape this?
—Søren Kierkegaard
We never repent of having eat too little.
—Thomas Jefferson
People understand me so little that they do not even understand when I complain of being misunderstood.
—Søren Kierkegaard
I am very fond of the modest manner of life of those solitary owners of remote villages, who in Little Russia are commonly called old-fashioned, who are like tumbledown picturesque little houses, delightful in their simplicity and complete unlikeness to the new smooth buildings whose walls have not yet been discolored by the rain, whose roofs are not yet covered with green lichen, and whose porch does not display its bricks through the peeling stucco.
—Nikolai Gogol
True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, & the world around us.
—Socrates
Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.
—Plato
People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau
It is not that we have so little time but that we lose so much. … The life we receive is not short but we make it so; we are not ill provided but use what we have wastefully.
—Seneca
It is not the man who has too little that is poor, but the one who hankers after more.
—Seneca
It’s not that we have little time, but more that we waste a good deal of it.
—Seneca
Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation. I keep the subject constantly before me and wait ’til the first dawnings open slowly, by little and little, into a full and clear light.
—Isaac Newton
We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep.
—William Shakespeare
False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness.
—Charles Darwin
Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.
—George Washington
Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
—Mark Twain
It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.
—Seneca
I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‘Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death
—Leonardo Da Vinci
One has no right to love or hate anything if one has not acquired a thorough knowledge of its nature. Great love springs from great knowledge of the beloved object, and if you know it but little you will be able to love it only a little or not at all.
—Leonardo Da Vinci
He who thinks little errs much.
—Leonardo Da Vinci
To suffer the penalty of too much haste, which is too little speed.
—Plato
The greatest wealth is to live content with little.
—Plato
True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
—Socrates
For the very fact that my knowledge is increasing little by little is the most certain argument for its imperfection.
—René Descartes