Importance Quotes - Page 31

• More broadly across time and cultures, it seems, one perennial piece of advice to father has been the importance of acting tenderly toward their children. The New Father, it turns out, is an old story.

  David Blankenhorn

  Children, Father, Advice

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• I am not afraid of the priests in the long-run. Scientific method is the white ant which will slowly but surely destroy their fortifications. And the importance of scientific method in modern practical life--always growing and increasing--is the guarantee for the gradual emancipation of the ignorant upper and lower classes, the former of whom especially are the strength of the priests.

  Thomas Huxley

  Running, Class, White

  Thomas Henry Huxley, Henrietta A. Huxley (1908). “Aphorisms and reflections”

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• I would not minimize the digital divide, which separates the computerized world from the rest, nor would I underestimate the importance of traditional books.

  Robert Darnton

  Book, World, Digital Divide

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• I believe that it is of the utmost importance that we all should feel and inculcate among the people and circulate amongst them what I call a sense of compatriotism. We should all feel that we are all nationals of one country, whatever our race, colour, creed, or sect.

  A. D. Patel

  Country, Believe, Race

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• [W]e need to talk over not only those things which are of vital importance to us as women, but also the things that are of especial interest to us as colored women.

  Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin

  Needs, Interest

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• With "Good Night, and Good Luck," I think it's kind of obvious what [Truman Capote]'s getting at there, and the importance of how it's playing out today, that is journalism doing, are the journalists doing their job, are they being the other checks and balances in our country that the way that obviously Edward R. Murrow was back then.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Good Night, Country, Jobs

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• It was this desire for a feeling of importance that led an uneducated, poverty-stricken grocery clerk to study some law books he found in the bottom of a barrel of household plunder that he had bought for fifty cents. You have probably heard of this grocery clerk. His name was Lincoln.

  Dale Carnegie

  Book, Law, Names

  Dale Carnegie (2016). “How to win friends & influence people”, p.26, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• A day without morning and evening prayers and personal intercessions is actually a day without meaning or importance.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Morning, Prayer, Evening

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• It's not the honors and not the titles and not the power that is of ultimate importance. It's what resides inside.

  Fred Rogers

  Honor, Titles, Ultimate

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• As an element in human progress, the right of private property, in importance, has taken first and almost only place in the current systems of law and of political economy. While admitting its great importance, we cannot conceal the fact that the writers on those subjects have wholly failed to distinguish between its use and its abuse, or to recognize its rational and equitable limits.

  Joshua K. Ingalls

  Taken, Law, Political

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• If you have a great deal of knowledge, but you're governed by negative emotions, then you tend to use your knowledge in negative ways. Therefore, while you are learning, don't forget the importance of warmheartedness.

  Dalai Lama

  Way, Negative, Use

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• The big corporations are suddenly taking notice of the web, and their reactions have been slow. Even the computer industry failed to see the importance of the Internet, but that's not saying much. Let's face it, the computer industry failed to see that the century would end.

  Douglas Adams

  Corporations, Faces, Computer

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In order to be somebody you have to hold even your shadow in high regard.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Success, Order, Shadow

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• The moment Germany rises as a great power, France gains a new importance as a cultural power.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Power, Rose, Germany

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• All parties attempt to represent important things that have developed outside themselves as unimportant, and where they fail in this they assail those things all the more bitterly the more admirable they are.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Party, Important, Failing

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• Whoever deliberately attempts to insure confidentiality with another person is usually in doubt as to whether he inspires that person's confidence in him. One who is sure that he inspires confidence attaches little importance to confidentiality.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Trust, Inspire, Doubt

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• 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

  Truth, History, Secret

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.88, Xist Publishing

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• Let us not underrate the value of a fact; it will one day flower in a truth. It is astonishing how few facts of importance are added in a century to the natural history of any animal. The natural history of man himself is still being gradually written.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Truth, Flower, Animal

  Henry David Thoreau (2011). “The Natural History Essays”, p.28, Gibbs Smith

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• The first in time and the first in importance of the influences upon the mind is that of nature. Every day, the sun; and after sunset, night and her stars. Ever the winds blow; ever the grass grows.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Education, Nature, Stars

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.151, Courier Corporation

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• Anti-intellectualism is a disposition to discount the importance of truth and the life of the mind.

  Os Guinness

  Mind, Disposition, Discounts

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• A person unlearns arrogance when he knows he is always among worthy human beings; being alone fosters presumption. Young people are arrogant because they always associate with their own peers, those who are all really nothing but who would like to be very important.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  People, Arrogance, Important

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• Society is the stage on which manners are shown; novels are the literature. Novels are the journal or record of manners; and the new importance of these books derives from the fact, that the novelist begins to penetrate the surface, and treat this part of life more worthily.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Facts, Novelists

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.101, Harvard University Press

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• The permanence of all books is fixed by no effort friendly or hostile, but by their own specific gravity, or the intrinsic importance of their contents to the constant mind of man.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Men, Effort

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.158, Penguin

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• When some English moralists write about the importance of having character, they appear to mean only the importance of having a dull character.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Writing, Character, Mean

  "Charles Dickens: A Critical Study". Book by G. K. Chesterton, 1906.

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• It was a truism that all civilizations were basically neurotic until they made contact with everybody else and found their place within the ever-changing meta-civilisation of other beings, because, until then, during the stage when they honestly believed they might be entirely alone in existence, all solo societies were possessed of both an inflated sense of their own importance and a kind of existential terror at the sheer scale and apparent emptiness of the universe.

  Iain Banks

  Civilization, Might, Emptiness

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