“The will—the one thing it is most important to educate—we neglect.”
John Lancaster Spalding (1840–1916) Catholic bishop
Source: Aphorisms and Reflections (1901), p. 113
“The will—the one thing it is most important to educate—we neglect.”
John Lancaster Spalding (1840–1916) Catholic bishop
Source: Aphorisms and Reflections (1901), p. 113
“I think the most important thing about music is the sense of escape.”
Thom Yorke (1968) English musician, philanthropist and singer-songwriter
“The most important things about the individual are what he cannot or will not say.”
Lawrence K. Frank (1890–1968) American cyberneticist
Source: Projective methods for the study of personality (1939), p. 395
“The most important thing about mathematics is how it resides in the human brain.”
William Thurston (1946–2012) mathematician
Foreword to Teichmüller Theory
“The most important part of education — to teach the meaning of to know”
Simone Weil (1909–1943) French philosopher, Christian mystic, and social activist
in the scientific sense
The last statement in her notebook
Waiting on God (1950)
“The most important thing I learned in college about the rich is that they pursue hobbies”
Richard Rodríguez (1944) American journalist and essayist
Brown : The Last Discovery of America (2003)
Phil Vischer (1966) American puppeter
Keynote speech at Christian Management Association conference in Denver, Colorado (March 2006)
“What comes to mind when we think about God is the most important thing about us.”
Aiden Wilson Tozer (1897–1963) American missionary
The Knowledge of the Holy (1978)
Steve Irwin (1962–2006) Australian environmentalist and television personality
Online interview at Scientific American online (sciam.com) (26 March 2001)