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Quotes About Importance

I regarded it more as an honor than a disgrace to be permitted to share this fate of the complete destruction of literary existence in Germany with such eminent contemporaries as Thomas Mann, Heinrich Mann, Werfel, Freud, Einstein, and many others whose work I consider incomparably more important than my own
~ Stefan Zweig
Like all headstrong types, Czentovic had no sense of the ridiculous; ever since his triumph in the world tournament, he considered himself the most important man in the world, and the awareness that he had beaten all these clever, intellectual, brilliant speakers and writers on their own ground, and above all the evident fact that he made more money than they did, transformed his original lack of self-confidence into a cold pride that for the most part he did not trouble to hide.
~ Stefan Zweig
Learning and seeing are more important than education.
~ Sten Nadolny
Stories are important...They can be more important than anything. If they carry the truth.
~ Patrick Ness
Those who do not hate their own selfishness and regard themselves as more important than the rest of the world are blind because the truth lies elsewhere
~ Blaise Pascal
It is sometimes said that conduct is supremely important and worship helps it. The truth is that worship is supremely important and conduct tests it
~ William Temple
The truth is, that the military people are so important to our country.
~ Donald Trump
It matters enormously if I alienate anyone from the truth.
~ C. S. Lewis
What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us.
~ A.W. Tozer
It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.
~ John Ruskin
Again and again one can listen: this is my opinion, I think this or that... As if it matters, what one or the other thinks! The point is much more to what the truth is!
~ Rudolf Steiner
In a world where celebrity equals talent, and where make-believe is called reality, it is most important to have real love, truth and stability in your life.
~ Bernie Brillstein
I have always said that often the religion you were born with becomes more important to you as you see the universality of truth.
~ Ram Dass
Everything isn't subjective. Reality also matters. Truth matters. It is still a word with meaning.
~ David Brin
Citizens have to fight suppression of information on matters of vital public importance. To tell the truth is not a crime.
~ Edward Snowden
Is it important to have an enlightened teacher? No. Yes. If you are an absolute beginner, it really doesn't matter that much, to tell you the truth.
~ Frederick Lenz
There are secret articles in our treaties with the gods, of more importance than all the rest, which the historian can never know.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Teach us almighty father, to consider this solemn truth, as we should do, that we may feel the importance of every day, and every hour as it passes.
~ Jane Austen
Words are often things also, and very precious, especially on the gravest occasions. Without "words," and the truth of things that is in them, what were we?
~ Leigh Hunt
Poetry is much more important than the truth, and, if you don't believe that, try using the two methods to get laid.
~ Mark Forsyth
In truth I care little about any party's politics—the man behind it is the important thing.
~ Mark Twain
The truth is, no matter how modest Steven [Sebring] is, he was obsessed with the outcome of the film [Dream of Life]. Every single frame was important to him.
~ Patti Smith
Truth as such is not a particularly important concept in naturalistic philosophy.
~ Phillip E. Johnson
The truth is, I'm a character guy. That's how I see myself. I always see the role as being far more interesting and important than I am... not all actors approach it that way.
~ Stephen Lang