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