importance

How do we perceive what’s important in life, from what we once thought to what we think now, how does it change?

— Saim Cheeda

How is power of speech (vacchanbud) attained? It is when, not a single word is uttered to make fun of others; when not a single word is uttered for wrong selfish motives, material self-gain; when speech has not been misused; when speech has not been used to gain recognition or importance from others - that is when one's power of speech is attained.

— Dada Bhagwan

Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition.

— Isaac Asimov

I am going to die, but that is of no importance.

— Muriel Barbery

I am Tessa Gray,” she said in a low, clear voice. “And I believe in the importance of stories.

— Cassandra Clare

I believe it to be of particular importance that the scientist have an articulate and adequate social philosophy, even more important than the average man should have a philosophy. For there are certain aspects of the relation between science and society that the scientist can appreciate better than anyone else, and if he does not insist on this significance no one else will, with the result that the relation of science to society will become warped, to the detriment of everybody.

— Percy Williams Bridgman

I do not understand those who take little or no interest in the subject of religion. If religion embodies a truth, it is certainly the most important truth of human existence. If it is largely error, then it is one of monumentally tragic proportions—and should be vigorously opposed.

— Steve Allen

I'd rather make a show 100 people need to see, then a show that 1000 people want to see.

— Joss Whedon

If I was your mirror, you would look for me more, than you do me.

— Anthony Liccione

If someone doesn't value evidence, what evidence are you going to provide to prove that they should value it? If someone doesn’t value logic, what logical argument could you provide to show the importance of logic?

— Sam Harris