Definition of Insignificance
Insignificance
The condition or quality of being insignificant; want of significance, sense, or meaning; as, the insignificance of words or phrases.
Want of force or effect; unimportance; pettiness; inefficacy; as, the insignificance of human art.
Want of claim to consideration or notice; want of influence or standing; meanness.
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Insignificance Quotations
A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance.
T. S. Eliot
The massive bulk of the earth does indeed shrink to insignificance in comparison with the size of the heavens.
Nicolaus Copernicus
Our insignificance is often the cause of our safety.
Aesop
Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.
Saul Bellow
For boredom speaks the language of time, and it is to teach you the most valuable lesson of your life - the lesson of your utter insignificance.
Joseph Brodsky
If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning, we may study his commentators.
William Hazlitt
Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential.
William Thomas
Insignificance Translations
insignificance in French is insignifiance
insignificance in Spanish is insignificancia
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