Source: Tabari 9:69
Source: Transmetropolitan, Vol. 1: Back on the Street
“What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us.”
“To be simple is no small matter.”
Source: Selected Letters
“Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.”
1950s
Context: In matters concerning truth and justice there can be no distinction between big problems and small; for the general principles which determine the conduct of men are indivisible. Whoever is careless with truth in small matters cannot be trusted in important affairs.
(1955) as quoted in Albert Einstein: Historical and Cultural Perspectives (1997) ed. , p. 388, from The Centennial Symposium in Jerusalem (1979)
“Reserve the great matters till the end, and the small matters give at the beginning.”
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), XXI Letters. Personal Records. Dated Notes.
“If Atomes are as small, as small can bee,
They must in quantity of Matter all agree.”
'The weight of Atomes', in The Atomic Poems of Margaret (Lucas) Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, from her Poems, and Fancies, 1653, an electronic edition. Edited with an introduction by Leigh Tillman Partington. http://womenwriters.digitalscholarship.emory.edu/toc.php?id=atomic
“A perfect faith is nowhere to be found, so it follows that all of us are partly unbelievers.”
