Quotes About Importance

During Pakistan's formative years, however, pan-Islamism was more important for Pakistan's efforts to consolidate its national identity than as the main-stay of its foreign policy.

I am skeptical about the idea that we can learn much from history, at least in the sense that knowledge of past follies will prevent us from making similar blunders in the future... And yet it is important to know what happened before, and to try and make sense of it. For if we don't, we cannot understand our own times.

Plutarch's remark: 'When destiny raises a base character by acts of great importance, it reveals his lack of substance'

What right have you to try and take away happiness, false or not, illusory or not?" "Because I believe there must be something more important than happiness. Accountability. Quality. Satire." "Not

What right have you to try and take away happiness, false or not, illusory or not?" "Because I believe there must be something more important than happiness. Accountability. Quality. Satire." "Not in the Compassionate Society.

The Love Police, vigilant and valiant defenders of … Of what? Mediocrity? Benign Incompetence? One and a half billion people for whom nothing was more important than their own happiness?

I really appreciate family. I really can't imagine life without them!

You have not forgotten to remember; You have remembered to forget. But people can forget to forget. That is just as important as remembering to remember - and generally more practical.

When people believe that the form is more important than the Truth, they will not find truth, but will stay with form.

Remembering and Forgetting You have not forgotten to remember; You have remembered to forget. But people can forget to forget. That is just as important as remembering to remember – and generally more practical.

Feeling important is a vice, not a virtue, however concealed as participation in something noble.

When you observe that today's controversies often reveal not relevance but the clash of the untaught with the wrongly taught, and when you can endure this knowledge without cynicism, as a lover of humankind, greater compensations will be open to you than a sense of your own importance or satisfaction in thinking about the unreliability of others.

The Sufis have said: 'The importance of something is in inverse proportion to its attractiveness.

Sentirse importante es un vicio, no una virtud, no importa lo escondido que está como participación en algo noble.

Sentirse importante es un vicio, no una virtud, no importa lo escondido que esté como participación en algo noble.

When people believe that the form is more important than the Truth, they will not find truth, but will stay with form." ? Idries Shah, Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way

The selection and following of a spiritual guide is the most important duty of a Sufi.

La forma es útil, pero secundaria.

La importancia de la morada está en el morador.

Very often, people believe they are doing "significant" things when they merely want an interchange of attention.

Muchas veces, la gente cree estar haciendo cosas "significativas" cuando meramente quieren un intercambio de atención.

La valía de la Morada yace en el Morador.

It is the message, not the man, which is important to the Sufis.

When you find the absolute values, you are important to this world because you know what is important. Those who know what is truly important are helpful to this world, because they won't put their personal concerns before what is important to all.