Quotes about Magnitude
Facing issues of this magnitude, it's unreasonable to think that anyone comes to the investigation with no personal hopes or preexisting beliefs.
- Gary Habermas
Greatness is one of the sensations of littleness
- George Bernard Shaw
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,
- Samuel Johnson
The chief proof of man's real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness.
- Arthur Conan Doyle
an infinite Power must be infinitely little as well as infinitely great. We are neither, therefore there are things too little as well as too great for us to apprehend.
- LM Montgomery
The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water'.
- Ernest Hemingway
I want to live where things happen on a big scale.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
Three hundred cubits long, fifty cubits wide, and thirty cubits high.
- Madeleine L'Engle
Three hundred cubits long, fifty cubits wide, and thirty cubits high.
- Madeleine L'Engle
how there's very little difference in the size of the tiniest microbe and the greatest galaxy.
- Madeleine L'Engle
Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading.
- John Updike
Child, you have to learn to see things in the right proportions. Learn to see great things great and small things small.
- Corrie Ten Boom