Definition of Significance
Significance Quotations
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
Aristotle
In time it will become clear to everyone that support for the policies of pre-emptive war and interventionist nation-building will have much greater significance than the removal of Saddam Hussein itself.
Ron Paul
What a profound significance small things assume when the woman we love conceals them from us.
Marcel Proust
I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance.
Pablo Casals
This dullness of vision regarding the importance of the general welfare to the individual is the measure of the failure of our schools and churches to teach the spiritual significance of genuine democracy.
Henry A. Wallace
To grasp the full significance of life is the actor's duty; to interpret it his problem; and to express it his dedication.
James Dean
What a man does for pay is of little significance. What he is, as a sensitive instrument responsive to the world's beauty, is everything!
H. P. Lovecraft
The establishment of a law, moreover, does not take place when the first thought of it takes form, or even when its significance is recognised, but only when it has been confirmed by the results of the experiment.
Dmitri Mendeleev
History is the interpretation of the significance that the past has for us.
Johan Huizinga
To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event.
Henri Cartier-Bresson
Significance Translations
significance in German is Bedeutung
significance in Spanish is importancia
significance in Swedish is betydelse
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