Importance Quotes

Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained. (James A. Garfield)

It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.

Samuel Johnson

A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual.

Vladimir Nabokov

I understand the importance of bondage between parent and child.

Dan Quayle

The importance of information is directly proportional to its improbability.

Jerry Pournelle

Thus, what is of supreme importance in war is to attack the enemy's strategy.

Sun Tzu

I have often noticed that a bribe has that effect - it changes a relation. The man who offers a bribe gives away a little of his own importance; the bribe once accepted, he becomes the inferior, like a man who has paid for a woman.

Graham Greene

The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.

Blaise Pascal

Manifold subsequent experience has led to a truer appreciation and a more moderate estimate of the importance of the dependence of one living being upon another.

Richard Owen

There is no greater importance in all the world like knowing you are right and that the wave of the world is wrong, yet the wave crashes upon you.

Norman Mailer

Difficult times have helped me to understand better than before, how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way, and that so many things that one goes worrying about are of no importance whatsoever. (Karen Blixen)

American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age.

Marshall McLuhan

No one could have less faith in the absolute and definitive importance of the work created by man, because I believe that this world is nothing but a dream...

Gustave Moreau

For a successful revolution it is not enough that there is discontent. What is required is a profound and thorough conviction of the justice, necessity and importance of political and social rights.

Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar

Death gives meaning to our lives. It gives importance and value to time. Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it.

Ray Kurzweil

Intellectuals are people who believe that ideas are of more importance than values. That is to say, their own ideas and other people's values.

Gerald Brenan

Of course, relative citation frequencies are no measure of relative importance. Who has not aspired to write a paper so fundamental that very soon it is known to everyone and cited by no one?

Abraham Pais

To acquire immunity to eloquence is of the utmost importance to the citizens of a democracy.

Bertrand Russell

The theoretical understanding of the world, which is the aim of philosophy, is not a matter of great practical importance to animals, or to savages, or even to most civilised men.

Bertrand Russell

It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things.

Theodore Roosevelt

Just once in a while let us exalt the importance of ideas and information. (Edward R. Murrow)

The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.

David Hume

You can calculate the worth of a man by the number of his enemies, and the importance of a work of art by the harm that is spoken of it.

Gustave Flaubert

There are problems to whose solution I would attach an infinitely greater importance than to those of mathematics, for example touching ethics, or our relation to God, or concerning our destiny and our future; but their solution lies wholly beyond us and completely outside the province of science.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

Europeans know the importance of the Resistance; it has been the shining example of the modern conscience.

Salvatore Quasimodo

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