It is much more important to know what sort of a patient has a disease than what sort of a disease a patient has.
William Osler

There are, in truth, no specialties in medicine, since to know fully many of the most important diseases a man must be familiar with their manifestations in many organs.
William Osler

The alternate media are becoming important and viable alternatives to playing live. Records, videos, that kind of thing. They're going to start to count for something. Because there's only a limited amount of us-time available to us.
Jerry Garcia

The United States strongly seeks a lasting agreement for the discontinuance of nuclear weapons tests. We believe that this would be an important step toward reduction of international tensions and would open the way to further agreement on substantial measures of disarmament.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

The spirit of man is more important than mere physical strength, and the spiritual fiber of a nation than its wealth.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

It is far more important to be able to hit the target than it is to haggle over who makes a weapon or who pulls a trigger.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

If you ask what is the single most important key to longevity, I would have to say it is avoiding worry, stress and tension. And if you didn't ask me, I'd still have to say it.
George Burns

The most important thing in acting is honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made.
George Burns

The truth is more important than the facts.
Frank Lloyd Wright

I hope to have communion with the people, that is the most important thing.
Pope John Paul II

I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it's the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It's probably the most important thing in a person.
Audrey Hepburn

Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you're exactly the same.
Audrey Hepburn

Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them.
T. S. Eliot

The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible.
T. S. Eliot

For a creative writer possession of the "truth" is less important than emotional sincerity.
George Orwell

Next to doing the right thing, the most important thing is to let people know you are doing the right thing.
John D. Rockefeller

The most important thing for a young man is to establish a credit... a reputation, character.
John D. Rockefeller

Cleanliness becomes more important when godliness is unlikely.
P. J. O'Rourke

What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves? This is the most important of all voyages of discovery, and without it, all the rest are not only useless, but disastrous.
Thomas Merton

The goal is to live a full, productive life even with all that ambiguity. No matter what hap- pens, whether the cancer never flares up again or whether you die, the important thing is that the days that you have had you will have lived.
Gilda Radner