Sarra Manning (1950) British writer
Source: You Don't Have to Say You Love Me
Alternate translation: In this world, who you are is more important than what you are saying.
From his various literature
Source: Asa mi Asami
Sarra Manning (1950) British writer
Source: You Don't Have to Say You Love Me
Robert G. Ingersoll (1833–1899) Union United States Army officer
The trial of Charles B. Reynolds for blasphemy (1887)
Context: I want you to understand what has been done in the world to force men to think alike. It seems to me that if there is some infinite being who wants us to think alike he would have made us alike. Why did he not do so? Why did he make your brain so that you could not by any possibility be a Methodist? Why did he make yours so that you could not be a Catholic? And why did he make the brain of another so that he is an unbeliever — why the brain of another so that he became a Mohammedan — if he wanted us all to believe alike?
After all, maybe Nature is good enough and grand enough and broad enough to give us the diversity born of liberty. Maybe, after all, it would not be best for us all to be just the same. What a stupid world, if everybody said yes to everything that everybody else might say.
The most important thing in this world is liberty. More important than food or clothes — more important than gold or houses or lands — more important than art or science — more important than all religions, is the liberty of man.
“I've learned…. That being kind is more important than being right.”
H. Jackson Brown, Jr. (1940) American writer
Source: Live and Learn and Pass It On, Volume II: People Ages 5 to 95 Share What They've Discovered About Life, Love, and Other Good Stuff
“The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.”
Peter F. Drucker (1909–2005) American business consultant
Variant: The most important thing in communication is to hear what is not being said.
Zdravko Krivokapić (1958) Montenegrin politician and professor
Source: Zdravko Krivokapić (2021) cited in: " Montenegro’s opposition pulls no-confidence motion against government https://www.euractiv.com/section/politics/short_news/montenegros-opposition-pulls-no-confidence-motion-against-government/" in Euractiv, 14 December 2021.
“In the phrase ' human being,' the word 'being' is much more important than the word 'human.”
Karen Joy Fowler book We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
Source: We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
“But somethings in life are more important than being happy. Like being free to think for yourself.”
Jon Krakauer (1954) American outdoors writer and journalist