That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.
Perhaps the most important lesson of the New Social Historians is that history belongs to those about whom or whose documents survive.
The Copernican revolution brought about by Kant was, I think, the most important single turning point in the history of philosophy.
The most important fact is that gays have been here since day one. To say otherwise is a gross denial and stupidity. We played an enormous part in the history of America.
The dramatic modernization of the Asian economies ranks alongside the Renaissance and the Industrial Revolution as one of the most important developments in economic history.
After Jackie Robinson the most important black in baseball history is Reggie Jackson, I really mean that.
I think it is important to be a friend to your kids. But it is also equally important to set boundaries. My mother was a strong influence, and so was my dad. My mom was my friend whom I couldn't cross.
For me, life and death are very important themes. There is no life without death. That's why it's very important to me.
It is not possible to design always the same. How to be different in each different place - that is the most important work and duty of the architect to find out.
Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it.
Looking back, I realize that nurturing curiosity and the instinct to seek solutions are perhaps the most important contributions education can make.
It is really important that we promote competitive support in schools. It is very important that we recognise that has to be underpinned by good quality physical education and by getting people into patterns of exercise.
The question of whether there exists a supernatural creator, a God, is one of the most important that we have to answer. I think that it is a scientific question. My answer is no.
Great companies that build an enduring brand have an emotional relationship with customers that has no barrier. And that emotional relationship is on the most important characteristic, which is trust.
There are many qualities that make a great leader. But having strong beliefs, being able to stick with them through popular and unpopular times, is the most important characteristic of a great leader.
I think the most important technique is to ground everything, to make everything - to make fantasy world grounded and relatable, just great characters.
What's important is to be able to see yourself, I think, as having commonality with other people and not determine, because of your good luck, that everybody is less significant, less interesting, less important than you are.
First of all, the most important, that is to learn everything good that has survived from other times, and carefully to watch the bad - and throw it out.
Our national motto is 'In God we Trust,' reminding us that faith in our Creator is the most important American value of all.
Faith is important to me. It's important to millions of Australians. It helps to shape who I am. It helps to shape my values. But it must never, never dictate my politics.
The most important question we have to deal with is a combination of population control and the control of our environment - how to utilize the world in as effective a way as we can for the future of mankind.
