“The most important thing about a person is always the thing you don't know.”

— Barbara Kingsolver , book The Lacuna

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American author, poet and essayist 1955

Edwin H. Land (1909–1991) American scientist and inventor

“What the hell kind of conclusion can you come to there? The most important thing, from the patient's perspective, they don't talk about.”

John Bonica (1917–1994) Anesthesiologist; pioneer in pain management

After having read 14,000 pages of medical textbooks and finding only 7 1/2 pages mentioning "pain," as quoted by Latif Nasser, "The amazing story of the man who gave us modern pain relief" (2015) TED Talks

“But the most important thing is, even if we're apart, I'll always be with you.”

A.A. Milne (1882–1956) British author

“Next to doing the right thing, the most important thing is to let people know you are doing the right thing.”

John D. Rockefeller (1839–1937) American business magnate and philanthropist

As quoted in The Forbes Book of Business Quotations (2007) edited by Ted Goodman, p. 175

“The frivolous can call me frivolous.
I’ve always been most punctilious about
important things.”

Constantine P. Cavafy (1863–1933) Greek poet

A Byzantine Nobleman in Exile Composing Verses http://www.cavafy.com/poems/content.asp?id=16&cat=1
Collected Poems (1992)
Context: The frivolous can call me frivolous.
I’ve always been most punctilious about
important things. And I insist
that no one knows better than I do
the Holy Fathers, or the Scriptures, or the Canons of the Councils.