Insignificancy Quotes

#1. Neither the inveterateness of the mischief, nor the prevalency of the fashion, shall be any excuse for those who will not take care about the meaning of their own words, and will not suffer the insignificancy of their expressions to be inquired into.

John Locke

#2. The nation looked upon him as a deserter, and he shrunk into insignificancy and an earldom.

Lord Chesterfield

#3. Our vanity, our passions, our spirit of imitation, our abstract intelligence, our habits have long been at work, and it is the task of art to undo this work of theirs, making us travel back in the direction from which we have come to the depths where what has really existed lies unknown within us.

Marcel Proust

#4. Every object is beautiful in motion; a ship under sail, trees gently agitated with the wind, and a fine woman dancing, are three instances in point

Abigail Adams

#5. Books should, not Business, entertain the Light;
And Sleep, as undisturb'd as Death, the Night.

Abraham Cowley

#6. Thinking ... is a soundless dialogue, it is the weaving of patterns, it is a search for meaning. The activity of thought contributes to and shapes all that is specifically human.

Vera John-Steiner

#7. You have to tease your family. You tease the ones that you're closest to.

Parvesh Cheena

#8. It is always better to do the right thing.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#9. Works of art produced in the contemporary world are a further expression of that. But I don't think there is an active, ongoing nihilist self-consciousness in the artist.

Leonard Baskin

#10. Writing my own diary is the best form of remembrance, but only for my own use. I need these notes; it's like an impulse.

Orhan Pamuk