Importance Quotes
Trifles discover a character more than actions of importance. In regard to the former, a person is off his guard, and thinks it not material to use disguise. It is no imperfect hint toward the discovery of a man's character to say he looks as though you might be certain of finding a pin upon his sleeve.
William Shenstone
Eating is not merely a material pleasure. Eating well gives a spectacular joy to life and contributes immensely to goodwill and happy companionship. It is of great importance to the morale.
Elsa Schiaparelli
Centralization at the national capital or within a business undertaking always glorifies the importance of pieces of paper. This dims the sense of reality
David E. Lilienthal
Pride attaches undue importance to the superiority of one's status in the eyes of others; And shame is fear of humiliation at one's inferior status in the estimation of others. When one sets his heart on being highly esteemed, and achieves such rating, then he is automatically involved in fear of losing his status
Lao-Tzu
Life is an unanswered question, but let's still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.
Tennessee Williams
No human thing is of serious importance
Plato
Teaching is of more importance than urging.
Martin Luther
The importance of wine shows up early in the Bible: And Noah began to be a husbandman, and he planted a vineyard.
Genesis 9:20
In terms of wilderness preservation, Alaska is the last frontier. This time, given one great final chance, let us strive to do it right. Not in our generation, nor ever again, will we have a land and wildlife opportunity approaching the scope and importance of this one.
Morris Udall
A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Nothing ... nothing in the universe, is of any importance, or is authentic to any serious sense, except the illusions of romance. For man alone of animals plays the ape to his dreams. These axioms poor, deaf and blinded spendthrift! are none the less valuable for being quoted.
James Branch Cabell
Nothing of any importance can be taught. It can only be learned, and with blood and sweat.
Robert Anton Wilson
Our new economic approach is rooted in ideas which stress the importance of macro-economics, post neo-classical endogenous growth theory and the symbiotic relationships between growth and investment, and people and infrastructure.
James Gordon Brown
You will learn nothing of importance from this story except, perhaps, how to die; but then, you were born knowing that and in any case it only has to be done once. It is easy: ask anyone who has done it.
Cyril Emmanuel George Bonfiglioli
