Best Specks Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Scripture suggests that the elements in space were created for the benefit of earth, while evolution suggests that earth is an insignificant speck in vast space.”

Earth Space Evolution Elements Benefits Scripture Insignificant Specks

Author:Walter Lang

“Perhaps we are looking at this from a wrong perspective; this search for the truth, the meaning of life, the reason of God. We all have this mindset that the answers are so complex and so vast that it is almost impossible to comprehend. I think, on the contrary, that the answers are so simple; so simple that it is staring us straight in the face, screaming its lungs out, and yet we fail to notice it. We're looking through a telescope, searching the stars for the answer, when the answer is actually a speck of dirt on the telescope lens.”

Thinking Life Reason Faces Stars Simple Answers Impossible Failing Perspective Complexes Mindset Contrary Staring Meaning Of Life Dirt Lenses Lungs Thoughts On Life Telescopes Specks

Author:Jason Calacanis

“My fancies are fireflies Specks of living light twinkling in the dark.”

Light Dark Fancy Specks Firefly Twinkling

Book:Poems

Source: Poems

“In other men we faults can spy,/ And blame the mote that dims their eye;/ Each little speck and blemish find;/ To our own stronger errors blind.”

Men Littles Eye Stronger Blame Blind Errors Faults Blindness Spy Specks

Book:Poor Richard's Almanack

Source: Poor Richard's Almanack

“How beautiful is night! A dewy freshness fills the silent air; No mist obscures, nor cloud, nor speck, nor stain, Breaks the serene of heaven.”

Beautiful Night Heaven Break Air Silent Clouds Mist Serene Stains Freshness Specks Silent Night

Book:Poetical works

Source: Poetical works

“I begin my pictures under the effect of a shock which I feel and which makes me escape from reality... I need a point of departure, even if it's only a speck of dust or a flash of light.”

Ifs Needs Feels Reality Light Effects Dust Shock Flash Departure Specks

Author:Joan Miro

“The light is already there. In Zen Buddhism there's a little speck of dust on the mirror, and that's us.”

Littles Light Buddhism Mirrors Dust Introduction Zen Buddhism Specks

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Science was tearing through the 'fine-spun ecclesiastical cobwebs' to behold a new cosmos, in which our Earth is merely an 'eccentric speck' - a world of evolution 'and unchanging causation'. It invited new ways of thinking. It demanded a new rationale for belief. With science's truths the only accessible ones, 'blind faith' was no longer admirable but 'the one unpardonable sin'.”

“In the 50,000 years that followed—a time four to eight times shorter than the entire length of time the Neanderthals existed—the replacement crowd not only settled on almost every habitable speck of land on the planet, they developed technology that allowed them to go to the moon and beyond.”

Years Technology Four Land Planets Moon Crowds Eight Length Replacements Specks Neanderthals

Author:Svante Paabo

“You are not a powerless speck of dust drifting around in the wind...we are, each of us, like beautiful snowflakes-unique, and born for a specific reason and purpose.”

Inspirational Reason Beautiful Purpose Born Wind Unique Dust Powerless Drifting Snowflake Specks Predestination

Author:Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

“Let menot, even inmyownmind, committheinjustice of taking a speck for the whole.”

Whole Let Me Specks

Author:Maria Edgeworth

“Truth is a golden thread, seen here and there In small bright specks upon the visible side Of our strange being's party-coloured web.”

Sides Party Strange Truth Is Golden Visible Thread Here And There Specks

Book:Letters and Remains of Arthur Hugh Clough

Source: Letters and Remains of Arthur Hugh Clough

“When folks git ole en strucken wid de palsy, dey mus' speck ter be laff'd at.”

Folks Specks

Author:Joel Chandler Harris

“Here we may mount from this dull Earth, and viewing it from on high, consider whether Nature has laid out all her Cost and Finery upon this small Speck of Dirt.”

May Earth Cost Dull Dirt Specks

Book:The Celestial Worlds Discover'd, Or, Conjectures Concerning the Inhabitants, Plants and Productions of the Worlds in the Planets

Source: The Celestial Worlds Discover'd, Or, Conjectures Concerning the Inhabitants, Plants and Productions of the Worlds in the Planets

“True faith nor biddeth nor abideth form, The bended knee, the eye uplift; is all Which men need render; all which God can bear. What to the faith are forms? A passing speck, A crow upon the sky.”

Men Needs Eye Form Faith Sky Bears Passing Passings Uplifting Knees Crow Specks True Faith

Book:Festus: a poem

Source: Festus: a poem

“How can a speck of a universe be physically identical to the great expanse we view in the heavens above?”

Universe Heaven Views Identical Specks Expanse

Author:Brian Greene

“That is a cosmic perspective, that's correct. And in tandem with that, you will never find people who truly grasp the cosmic perspective such as the entire community of astrophysicists leading nations into battle. No, that doesn't happen. When you have a cosmic perspective, there's this little speck called Earth and you say you're going to do what? You're on this side of a line in the sand and you want to kill people for what?”

People Want Littles Happens Earth Nations Sides Community Lines Perspective Battle Sand Cosmic Specks Lines In The Sand

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“What are the lessons to be learned from this journey of the mind through the universe? That humans are emotionally fragile, perennially gullible, hopelessly ignorant masters of an insignificantly small speck in the cosmos. Have a nice day.”

Mind Humans Universe Nice Journey Masters Lessons Ignorant Cosmos Exploration Fragile Space Exploration Specks Gullible Nice Day Lessons To Be Learned Have A Nice Day

Book:Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries

Source: Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries

“We in astrophysics we think of the universe all the time. So to us, Earth is just another planet. From a distance, it's a speck. And I'm convinced that if everyone had a cosmic perspective you wouldn't have legions of armies waging war on other people because someone would say, "Stop, look at the universe."”

People Ifs Thinking Looks War Earth Universe Planets Perspective Army Distance Convinced Cosmic Legion Specks Astrophysics Waging War

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“Realism absorbs the ideal by adding a few small imperfections. Example: it paints a few specks of mud on the white gown of the Lady in the Garden.”

Reality White Example Ideals Garden Paint Imperfection Realism Mud Gowns Specks White Gown

Author:Mason Cooley

“Keep your hands clean and pure from the infamous vice of corruption, a vice so infamous that it degrades even the other vices thatmay accompany it. Accept no present whatever; let your character in that respect be transparent and without the least speck, for as avarice is the vilest and dirtiest vice in private, corruption is so in public life.”

Character Hands Accepting Pure Clean Greed Vices Corruption Transparent Public Life Avarice Accompany Degrade Specks Infamous

Book:Lord Chesterfield's Letters

Source: Lord Chesterfield's Letters

“Nothing but a speck we seem In the waste of waters round, Floating, floating like a dream, Outward bound.”

Dream Seems Water Waste Bounds Rounds Floating Specks Outward Bound

Author:Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

“As the brain of man is the speck of dust in the universe that thinks, so the leaves—the fern and the needled pine and the latticed frond and the seaweed ribbon—perceive the light in a fundamental and constructive sense. … Their leaves see the light, as my eyes can never do. … They impound its stellar energy, and with that force they make life out of the elements.”

Thinking Men Light Eye Universe Energy Force Brain Elements Fundamentals Dust Perceive Constructive Ribbons Specks Seaweed Stellar Ferns

Author:Donald C. Peattie

“As for me, I consider myself as a speck of the dust of the devotee's feet.”

Feet Dust Specks Devotee

Book:The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna

Source: The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna

“God who is goodness and truth is also beauty. It is this innate human and divine longing, found in the company of goodness and truth, that is able to recognize and leap up at beauty and rejoice and know that all is beautiful, that there is not one speck of beauty under the sun that does not mirror back the beauty of God.”

Knows Humans Doe God Able Beautiful Found Company Sun Divine Truth Is Goodness Mirrors Longing Leap Rejoice Innate Specks Goodness And Truth

Author:Roberta Bondi

“If I venture to displace ... the microscopical speck of dust... on the point of my finger,... I have done a deed which shakes the Moon in her path, which causes the Sun to be no longer the Sun, and which alters forever the destiny of multitudinous myriads of stars.”

Ifs Done Stars Causes Destiny Sun Forever Path Moon Fingers Deeds Dust Shakes Venture Specks

Book:The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe

Source: The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe

“All religions enjoined worship of the One God who is all-pervasive. He is present even in a drop of water or in a tiny speck of dust.”

God Water Worship Tiny Dust Specks Drop Of Water

Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“I don't care whether they're men or women, that's bullshit. A good writer can get into any gender, can get into any mouth. When I write I may be a Brando creep, or a girl laying on the floor, or a Japanese tourist, or a slob like Richard Speck. You have to be a chameleon when you're writing.”

Men Writing May Care Girl Mouths Don't Care Gender I Don't Care Bullshit Creeps Tourists Good Writers Specks Chameleon Brando

Author:Patti Smith

“...Which brings me to the Hubble Space Telescope's newest images. If it's wonder that you're looking for, and mystery, don't just scan the photographs. Stop and think about them. Try to imagine the scale. The Earth is just a speck of dust on one distant whirling tentacle of the Milky Way galaxy, which contains billions of stars. A 'collision' of galaxies seems unimaginably large - and yet it is something scientists long ago imagined... The imaginings of pseudoscience are feeble by comparison.”

“In beauty faults conspicuous grow; The smallest speck is seen on snow.”

Grows Faults Snow Smallest Specks

Book:Fables ... In one volume complete

Source: Fables ... In one volume complete

“Sometimes people stumble over this vastness in relation to the apparent insignificance of man. It does seem to make us infinitesimally small. But the meaning of this magnitude is not mainly about us. It’s about God… The reason for ‘wasting’ so much space on a universe to house a speck of humanity is to make a point about our maker, not us.”

People Men Doe Sometimes Reason Seems Humanity Universe House Space Relation Makers Magnitude Vastness Specks Insignificance

Author:John Piper

“One cannot ignore half of life for the purposes of science, and then claim that the results of science give a full and adequate picture of the meaning of life. All discussions of 'life' which begin with a description of man's place on a speck of matter in space, in an endless evolutionary scale, are bound to be half-measures, because they leave out most of the experiences which are important to use as human beings.”

“When one looks truly at the good side of everyone, others come to love him very naturally, and he does not need even a speck of flattery.”

Needs Looks Doe Sides Flattery Specks

Author:Abraham Isaac Kook

“Day by day, tiny specks of us float away.”

Tiny Floats Specks

Book:Keeping the Faith Without a Religion

Source: Keeping the Faith Without a Religion

“All of our media is made of language: our films, our music, our images, and of course our words. How different this is from analog production, where, if you were somehow able to peel back the emulsion from, say, a photograph, you wouldn't find a speck of language lurking below the surface.”

Ifs Made Different Able Film Courses Language Media Photograph Productions Surface Our Words Lurking Specks Analog Below The Surface

Author:Kenneth Goldsmith

“We sat looking out at the ocean. There was just so much of it, and it never failed to take my breath away. Looking at the ocean gave me the same sensation I'd get staring at a sky full of stars- that I was small. Like the way a math problem reveals its undeniable truth, I knew when I stared into this sort of endlessness that my life didn't count for much of anything. And knowing that, that I was nothing but a speck, I felt pretty lucky for all that I had.”

Way Problem Stars Felt Knowing Sky Lucky Ocean Breaths Math Staring Sat Sensations Specks Math Problems

Book:The Summer I Learned to Fly

Source: The Summer I Learned to Fly

“For what we don't realize today is just what the typical self of every previous stage failed likewise to comprehend: this is not the highest and greatest mode of consciousness which can be attained - there lie ahead the realms of the superconscious and the pitiful ego, by comparison, is as a speck of nothingness.”

Self Today Lying Realizing Consciousness Stage Ego Highest Realms Comparison Nothingness Typical Pitiful Specks

Book:The Collected Works of Ken Wilber: The Atman Project ; Up from Eden

Source: The Collected Works of Ken Wilber: The Atman Project ; Up from Eden

“The greatest threat to civility - and ultimately civilization - is an excess of certitude. The world is much menaced just now by people who think that the world and their duties in it are clear and simple. They are certain that they know what - who - created the universe and what this creator wants them to do to make our little speck in the universe perfect, even if extreme measures - even violence - are required.”

Source: One Man's America: The Pleasures and Provocations of Our Singular Nation

“You may be going through a trial so overwhelming that it's borderline unbearable. You want to see the end of the tunnel. Which is only natural, because once we see that little speck of light, we feel we can make it through to the finish. But God's tunnels are often twisting, too complex and dark to see the light for many days. In such settings He says, "In that dark, twisting, seemingly endless period of time, trust Me. Stop running scared! Stop fearing!"”

Source: Wisdom for the Way: Wise Words for Busy People

“Rather than seeing ourselves as insignificant specks in the immensity of the cosmos, we can consider that immensity an indicator of our worth. It seems the Creator invested a great deal-a universe of 50 billion trillion stars, plus a hundred times more matter, all fine-tuned to mind-boggling precision-for us. If not for the strength and abundance of evidence in support of that notion, it would seem the height of arrogance. Humility demands that we take a deeper and wider look at that evidence.”

Source: Why the Universe Is the Way It Is

“Our lives are but specks of dust falling through the fingers of time. Like sands of the hourglass, so are the days of our lives.”

Fall Our Lives Fingers Dust Sand Specks Hourglass

Author:Socrates

“I think living with the absence of someone we love is like living in front of a mountain from which a person - a speck in the distance, on some distance ridge - is perpetually waving.”

Thinking Persons Love Is Fronts Mountain Distance Absence Love Is Like Specks Ridges

Book:The Secret Lives of People in Love

Source: The Secret Lives of People in Love

“I beg you, cease going from lecture to lecture; It's better to seek truth directly. The nature of Diamond Wisdom excludes even a speck of dust. From "Thus we have heard," to "This I believe," All is but an array of unreal names.”

Believe Names I Believe Heard Cease Dust Diamond Lectures Unreal Specks This I Believe

Author:Layman Pang

“The works of Mozart may be easy to read, but they are very difficult to interpret. The least speck of dust spoils them. They are clear, transparent, and joyful as a spring, and not only those muddy pools which seem deep only because the bottom cannot be seen.”

May Seems Easy Difficult Clear Spring Bottom Dust Pool Joyful Transparent Spoil Muddy Specks

Author:Wanda Landowska

“When the camera is looking back at our planet Earth, it's the tiniest of specks somewhere out there in the universe. So we do have a new sense of proportion. Of course the volcanoes and the magma under us just remind us of that.”

Earth Universe Courses Planets Cameras Proportion Looking Back Our Planet Planet Earth Volcanoes Specks Somewhere Out There Our Planet Earth Magma

Author:Werner Herzog

“The Earth is a tiny blue speck in a universe of unfriendly options.”

Earth Universe Blue Tiny Specks Unfriendly

Author:Sylvia Earle

“Use your power to do whatever it takes to secure for humankind an enduring place on this little blue speck in the universe - our only hope.”

Littles Use Universe Blue Endure Secure Humankind Whatever It Takes Specks

Author:Sylvia Earle

“Drummers - sometimes they play and they listen. And that little listen takes a speck away from the right tempo.”

Littles Sometimes Play Drummer Tempo Specks

Author:Miles Davis

“If we are just specks of dust hit by lightning, if we have no spark of God in us, why not just take whatever we can and devil take the hindmost? I mean, we are fools not to do that if there is no right or wrong.”

Ifs Mean Fool Devil Dust Why Not Sparks Lightning Specks

Author:Ben Stein

“What is that feeling when you're driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? - it's the too-huge world vaulting us, and it's good-by. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.”

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