Quotes About Importance

However important the struggle is and however much misery and poverty and degradation exist, we know that it cannot be more important than one human life.

Had he said anything but what he said, had I been given the chance to change my mind, had he told me how much I was needed, had he tried to convince me that there was some attestable humanity in all of this, I would have stayed.

Sometimes things are fragile. That's why they're valuable.

Besides nature is a theater of secondary importance compared with world history.

In the attempt to make scientific discoveries, every problem is an opportunity — and the more difficult the problem, the greater will be the importance of its solution.

I had in mind a message, although I hope it doesn't intrude too badly, persuading Americans, and especially Southerners, of the critical importance of land and our vanishing natural environment and wildlife.

I think that the U.S. does have this very much more open attitude, and I admire it very much and I think it's very important to the world. But the information and the discussion sometimes come too late, after the effective decision has been made.

In the two hundred years that followed the Enlightenment, more mysteries of nature were studied and explained than in the preceding two thousand years. But what you must never forget is the importance for our own lives of tolerance, reason and humanity – the three fundamental principles of the Enlightenment.

Unfortunately grown-ups don't behave any better. Especially when they have nothing else to do or are having a hard time – or, sometimes, when they just think they are having a hard time. They band together with other real or supposed companions in misfortune and take to the streets, marching in step and parroting mindless slogans, filled with their own importance.

Every little trifle, for some reason, does seem incalculably important today, and when you say of a thing that 'nothing hangs on it,' it sounds like blasphemy. There's never any knowing—(how am I to put it?)—which of our actions, which of our idlenesses won't have things hanging on it for ever.

The issues Miss Quested had raised were so much more important than she was herself that people inevitably forgot her.

Secrecy has this disadvantage: we lose the sense of proportion; we cannot tell whether our secret is important or not.

He questioned Maurice, who, when he grasped the point, was understood to reply that deeds are more important than words.

Mr. Ansell was not merely a man of some education; he had what no education can bring — the power of detecting what is important. Like many fathers, he had spared no expense over his boy, — he had borrowed money to start him at a rapacious and fashionable private school; he had sent him to tutors; he had sent him to Cambridge. But he knew that all this was not the important thing. The important thing was freedom.

I think he is nice and tiresome. I differ from him on almost every point of any importance, and so, I expect - I may say I hope - you will differ. But his is a type one disagrees with rather than deplores. When he first came here he not unnaturally put people's backs up. He has no tact and no manners - I don't mean by that that he has bad manners - and he will not keep his opinions to himself

At Oxford he learned that the importance of human beings has been vastly over rated by specialists.

O Reitor veio em auxílio dos dois sunningtonianos [Maurice e Chapman]. Disse ao seu jovem primo [Risley]: - Estás a ser insensato quanto à memória. Confudes aquilo que é importante com aquilo que marca. Sem dúvida que o Chapman e o Hall [Maurice] se lembrarão sempre que te conheceram. ----------------------------------------------------- You confuse what's important with what's impressive. P. 35, MAURICE, E.M. FORSTER

She thought of her distant youth. The world was not so humorous then, but it had been more important.

Serious not in the sense of glum; but they must be convinced that our life is a state of some importance, and our earth not a place to beat time on.

With nothing to look forward to but the next meal, the human animal attaches a preposterous importance to his feeding.

These are times, moreover, when we shall learn again to make those pleas with which the Lord's Prayer begins: Hallowed be thy name; Thy kingdom come; Thy will be done. By these we learn to forget ourselves and our personal condition and to hold them as of little account. How are we to remain steadfast so long as we remain so important to ourselves? - Dietrich Bonhoeffer

I wanted to be like her because she mattered.

Serce jest wi?cej warte, ni?li ca?e z?oto ?wiata.

Although children are only 24 percent of the population, they're 100 percent of our future and we cannot afford to provide any child with a substandard education.