Significance Quotes - page 3

What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead. (Nelson Mandela)
The really important facts were that spatial relationships had ceased to matter very much and that my mind was perceiving the world in terms of other than spatial categories. At ordinary times the eye concerns itself with such problems as where? - how far? - how situated in relation to what? In the mescaline experience the implied questions to which the eye responds are of another order. Place and distance cease to be of much interest. The mind does its perceiving in terms of intensity of existence, profundity of significance, relationships within a pattern. View quote
Aldous Huxley
The great generalities of the constitution have a content and a significance that vary from age to age. View quote
Benjamin N. Cardozo
The responsibility of the writer as a moral agent is to try to bring the truth about matters of human significance to an audience that can do something about them. View quote
Noam Chomsky
I think men of science as well as other men need to learn from Christ, and I think Christians whose minds are scientific are bound to study science that their view of the glory of God may be as extensive as their being is capable. But I think that the results which each man arrives at in his attempts to harmonize his science with his Christianity ought not to be regarded as having any significance except to the man himself, and to him only for a time, and should not receive the stamp of a society. View quote
James Clerk Maxwell
And last of all we have the secondary forms of crystals bursting in upon us, and sparkling in the rigidity of mathematical necessity and telling us, neither of harmony of design, usefulness or moral significance, - nothing but spherical trigonometry and Napier's analogies. It is because we have blindly excluded the lessons of these angular bodies from the domain of human knowledge that we are still in doubt about the great doctrine that the only laws of matter are those which our minds must fabricate, and the only laws of mind are fabricated for it by matter. View quote
James Clerk Maxwell
The value of myth is that it takes all the things you know and restores to them the rich significance which has been hidden by the veil of familiarity. View quote
C. S. Lewis
Cleaning is considered a vital part of the training process in all traditional Japanese disciplines and is a required practice for any novice. It is accorded spiritual significance. Purifying an unclean place is believed to purify the mind. View quote
Mineko Iwasaki
Most people are perpetually locked in the present. Their decisions are overly influenced by the most immediate event; they easily become emotional and ascribe greater significance to a problem than it should have in reality. View quote
Robert Greene
I don't know the significance of this, but I find it very interesting. View quote
Stephen Chbosky
A story so cherished it has to be dressed in casualness to disguise its significance in case the listener turned out to be unsympathetic. (Diane Setterfield)
We must assume every event has significance and contains a message that pertains to our questions... this especially applies to what we used to call bad things... the challenge is to find the silver lining in every event, no matter how negative. View quote
James Redfield
It is about the greatness of God, not the significance of man. God made man small and the universe big to say something about himself. View quote
John Piper
Desire that your life count for something great! Long for your life to have eternal significance. Want this! Don't coast through life without a passion. View quote
John Piper
I know I cannot paint a flower. I can not paint the sun on the desert on a bright summer morning but maybe in terms of paint color I can convey to you my experience of the flower or the experience that makes the flower of significance to me at that particular time. View quote
Georgia O'Keeffe
She entered a state where prayer and poetry became one and the everyday world seemed full of holiness and significance. View quote
Lian Hearn
The general statement that the mental faculties are class concepts, belonging to descriptive psychology, relieves us of the necessity of discussing them and their significance at the present stage of our inquiry. View quote
Wilhelm Wundt
The future reshapes the memory of the past in the way it recalibrates significance; some episodes are advanced, others lose purchase. View quote
Gregory Maguire
I learned, too, how it was possible with the help of the picture and action to transform an apparently insignificant violin passage into an incident, and to lift a simple horn call into a thing of stupendous significance by means of scenic emphasis. View quote
Anton Seidl
My grandmother's apartment had significance for me, even as a child, and I was fascinated by that world that was disappearing. View quote
Arnon Goldfinger
Of all presidential perks, the pardon power has a special significance. It is just the kind of authority that would attract the special attention of someone obsessed with himself and his own ability to influence events. (Barbara Olson)
But novels are never about what they are about; that is, there is always deeper, or more general, significance. The author may not be aware of this till she is pretty far along with it. View quote
Diane Johnson
A British porch is a musty, forbidding non-room in which to fling a sodden umbrella or a muddy pair of boots; a guard against the elements and strangers. By contrast the good ol' American front porch seems to stand for positivity and openness; a platform from which to welcome or wave farewell; a place where things of significance could happen. View quote
Dan Stevens
The greater the conceptual significance of a literary product, the more it should be assumed that it is based on an idea that determines the whole, and that the deeper consciousness of the time to which it belongs is reflected in it. View quote
Ferdinand Christian Baur
My humble prayer is that all men everywhere may understand more fully the significance of the atonement of the Savior of all mankind, who has given us the plan of salvation which will lead us into eternal life, where God and Christ dwell. View quote
Harold B. Lee