Significance

Famous quotes containing the word significance:

“The hysterical find too much significance in things. The depressed find too little.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

“Politics is not an end, but a means. It is not a product, but a process. It is the art of government. Like other values it has its counterfeits. So much emphasis has been placed upon the false that the significance of the true has been obscured and politics has come to convey the meaning of crafty and cunning selfishness, instead of candid and sincere service.”
—Calvin Coolidge (1872–1933)

“History is the interpretation of the significance that the past has for us.”
—Johan Huizinga (1872–1945)