“Many small make a great.”
Part I, chapter 11.
Proverbs (1546), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
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Source: Charles Dickens (1906), Ch 1 : "The Dickens Period"
“He has been told that knowledge is power, and knowledge consists of a great many small things.”
Source: Ideas have Consequences (1948), p. 13.
Context: In the popular arena, one can tell … that the average man … imagines that an industrious acquisition of particulars will render him a man of knowledge. With what pathetic trust does he recite his facts! He has been told that knowledge is power, and knowledge consists of a great many small things.
“The small amount of foolery wise men have makes a great show.”
“The business of the novelist is not to relate great events, but to make small ones interesting.”
Source: The Works of Schopenhauer: The Wisdom of Life and Other Essays
Interview http://americanindian.net/asimov.html in Southwest Airlines Magazine 1979)
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“For harmony makes small states great, while discord undermines the mightiest empires.”
Nam concordia parvae res crescunt, discordia maxumae dilabuntur.
X.6
Bellum Iugurthinum
“Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions, great or small.”
Joan and Peter: The Story of an Education (1918)
