#unimportant

The tendency of modern scientific teaching is to neglect the great books, to lay far too much stress upon relatively unimportant modern work, and to present masses of detail of doubtful truth and questionable weight in such a way as to obscure principles. ↗

— Ronald Fisher

#detail #doubtful #far #great #lay

Perhaps we too seldom reflect how much the life of Nature is one with the life of man, how unimportant or indeed merely seeming, the difference between them. ↗

— Richard Le Gallienne

#difference #how #indeed #life #man

Anything that isn't opposed by about 40 percent of humanity is either an evil business or so unimportant that it simply doesn't matter. ↗

— Russell Baker

#anything #business #either #evil #humanity

History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#about #account #brought #events #false

There is no such thing in anyone's life as an unimportant day. ↗

— Alexander Woollcott

#day #life #such #thing #unimportant

Do the best you can in every task, no matter how unimportant it may seem at the time. No one learns more about a problem than the person at the bottom. ↗

— Sandra Day O'Connor

#best #bottom #every #how #learns

Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself. ↗

— Gerald Brenan

#being #bore #everyone #oneself #someone

Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself. ↗

— Charlie Chaplin

#failure #fool #make #takes #unimportant

However one might pray - in any verbal way or completely without words - is unimportant to God. What matters is the heart's intent. ↗

— Malcolm Boyd

#completely #god #heart #however #intent

Where I was born and where and how I have lived is unimportant. It is what I have done with where I have been that should be of interest. ↗