Francois Fenelon Quotes

There are no little things.

The little things? The little moments? They aren't little.

The real world, whether we like it or not, is right here, right now. All of this, every day, is important. Everybody matters. Everything we do has an effect on other, directly or indirectly, whether we realize it or not.

Sometimes it's the little things that count most.

It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.

There is nothing as dead and as damned as an important thing. The things that really matter are casual, insignificant little things.

Message matters. Message matters almost as much as actions.

The great challenge to the White House is that nothing inconsequential every comes there.

The atom has taught me that the little things do count - most.

There is a fundamental conviction which some people never acquire, some hold only in their youth, and a few hold to the end of their days-the conviction that ideas matter . . . . That ideas matter means that knowledge matters, that truth matters, that one's mind matters . . .

When anything can happen, everything matters.

Some philosophers fail to distinguish propositions from judgements; ... But in the real world it is more important that a proposition be interesting than that it be true. The importance of truth is that it adds to interest.

The urgent finds you; you have to find the important. Importance is not fast. It is slow. It is not superficial. It is deep. And as a result, it's extremely powerful. When important matters go wrong, they undermine everything. When they go right, they sustain everything.

Small thoughts fit easily into a closed mind, but big thoughts require an open one.

I believe that no concern of ours is too small or insignificant.

The vulgar mind always mistakes the exceptional for the important.

There is nothing so minute, or inconsiderable, that I would not rather know it than not.

I think science is real. And I think it's important that we grip this and deal with it, both at home and abroad.

Believe me, nothing is trivial.

There was a wall. It did not look important. It was built of uncut rocks roughly mortared. An adult could look right over it, and even a child could climb it. Where it crossed the roadway, instead of having a gate it degenerated into mere geometry, a line, an idea of boundary. But the idea was real. It was important. For seven generations there had been nothing in the world more important than that wall. Like all walls it was ambiguous, two-faced. What was inside it and what was outside it depended upon which side of it you were on.

A generous and elevated mind is distinguished by nothing more certainly than an eminent degree of curiosity.

Of what real value is a title? The power is the only important thing

There are things that feel so small but are such a big part of life.

Nothing, says Longinus, can be great, the contempt of which is great.

In the end....everything matters.