One can measure the importance of a scientific work by the number of earlier publications rendered superfluous by it — David Hilbert Copy Share Image
Enormous forces are affecting the world, and we can't possibly overestimate their importance. These include demographic developments, climate change, digitalization and the… — Paul Achleitner Copy Share Image
What makes you imagine ... that anything of importance can be taught in a school? — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
I think East Asian countries, I think they're very fortunate to have Buddhism survive as a strong influence because right from the… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
All parties attempt to represent important things that have developed outside themselves as unimportant, and where they fail in this they assail… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Probably the most important skill that children learn is how to learn. ... Too often we give children answers to remember rather… — Roger Lewin Copy Share Image
A person unlearns arrogance when he knows he is always among worthy human beings; being alone fosters presumption. Young people are arrogant… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
My father instilled in me - of utmost importance and innate in me is the yearning to determine for myself - to… — Vera Farmiga Copy Share Image
The Buddha’s last words instructed us to be heedful—to see our actions as important and to keep that importance in mind at… — Thanissaro Bhikkhu Copy Share Image
By actively thinking about the implications a space has on its inhabitants, we can create great experiences for those who enter. Make… — James P Hackett Copy Share Image
It is probable that there is no one thing that it is of eminent importance for a child to learn. — William Godwin Copy Share Image
Relative to its importance, the brain is the most underappreciated opportunity in the world. — Bryan Johnson Copy Share Image
Stage charm guarantees in advance an actor's hold on the audience, it helps him to carry over to large numbers of people… — Constantin Stanislavski Copy Share Image
The functional importance of the ego is manifested in the fact that normally control over the approaches to motility devolves upon it.… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The resistance to a new idea increases by the square of its importance. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Air Power is, above all, a psychological weapon - and only short-sighted soldiers, too battle-minded, underrate the importance of psychological factors in… — B. H. Liddell Hart Copy Share Image
A novelist must preserve a childlike belief in the importance of things which common sense considers of no great consequence. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
What we feel at prayer is God's business, not ours, and we must strive to be totally abandoned to the presence of… — Sheila Cassidy Copy Share Image
The costume of women should be suited to her wants and necessities. It should conduce at once to her health, comfort, and… — Amelia Bloomer Copy Share Image
Let divines and philosophers, statesmen and patriots, unite their endeavors to renovate the age by impressing the minds of men with the… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
television and radio violence was considered by most experts of minimal importance as a contributory cause of youthful killing. ... there were… — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
The school is a political prize of the highest importance. It cannot be deprived of its political character as long as it… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
I do know people and there are people in my family who have had Alzheimer's and dementia, and I appreciate the importance… — Elliott Gould Copy Share Image
...the sounds next door served as a kind of trip wire: I seemed to stumble and fall on my face, skinning and… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
