Inward Significance Quotes & Sayings

The very qualities that had led to Johnson's political and legislative success were precisely those that now operated to destroy him: his inward insistence that the world adapt itself to his goals; his faith in the nation's limitless capacity; his tendency to evaluate all human activity in terms of its political significance; his insistence on translating every disruptive situation into one where bargaining was possible; his reliance on personal touch; his ability to speak to each of his constituent groups on its own terms. All these gifts, instead of sustaining him, now conspired to destroy him. — Doris Kearns Goodwin

A close relationship, she thought. As far as they are concerned, all that means is a threat to which they don't want to expose themselves. — Henning Mankell

If we conservatives "of color" refuse to promote the welfare state, unfettered abortion, affirmative action, and massive immigration, we are guilty of "selling out. — Michelle Malkin

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. — Aristotle.

It's not about outward appearances but inward significance. A grandeur in the world, but not of the world, a grandeur that the world doesn't understand. That first glimpse of pure otherness, in whose presence you bloom out and out and out.
A self one does not want. A heart one cannot help. — Donna Tartt

Of what significance the light of day, if it is not the reflection of an inward dawn?
to what purpose is the veil of night withdrawn, if the morning reveals nothing to the soul? It is merely garish and glaring. — Henry David Thoreau

I want to live in a world where people are judged by who they are instead of what size they wear. — Jennifer Weiner

If you put into one room everyone who considered themselves a Nietzschean, there would be a bloodbath. — Ben Macintyre

Truth makes little sense and has no real impact if it is merely a collection of abstract ideas. Truth that is living experience, on the other hand, is challenging, threatening, and transforming. The first kind of truth consists of information collected and added, from a safe distance, to our mental inventory. The second kind involves risking our familiar and coherent interpretation of the world -it is an act of surrender, of complete and embodied cognition that is seeing, feeling, intuiting, and comprehending all at once. Living truth leads us ever more deeply into the unknown territory of what our life is. — Reginald A. Ray

Every Jewish holiday has a religious significance, a historical significance, and a relevance to the time of year in the natural calendar of the seasons and trees and growing things, as well as a personal significance. So you are always looking backward, outward, inward and forward. — Marge Piercy

To me, patriotism is about working ethically and wholeheartedly in our chosen field. — N. R. Narayana Murthy

There is a quiet courage that comes from an inward spring of confidence in the meaning and significance of life. Such courage is an underground river, flowing far beneath the shifting events of one's experience, keeping alive a thousand little springs of action. — Howard Thurman

In this country, unfortunately, as all over the world, we care so little, we have no deep feeling about anything. Most of us are intellectual-intellectuals in the superficial sense of being very clever, full of words and theories about what is right and what is wrong, about how we should think, what we should do. Mentally we are highly developed, but inwardly there is very little substance or significance; and it is this inward substance that brings about true action, which is not action according to an idea. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

Don't deal in the possibilities of the possibility. — John Hayden

I want to go to college, and I want to keep acting and singing. — Miranda Cosgrove