Quotes about Dismissal

What seems to us serious, significant and important will, in future times, be forgotten or won’t seem important at all.

Caring about what you are doing is considered either unimportant or taken for granted.

Words that do not match deeds are unimportant.

in comparison to the liberation of 800,000 slaves, the Declaration of Independence falls into utter insignificance.

[M]ost of what happens actually is forgotten.

Embraces do not matter; they merely indicate the will to love and may as well be followed by defeat as victory. But disregard means that now there needs to be no straining of the eyes, no stretching forth of the hands, no pressing of the lips, because theirs is such a union that they are no longer aware of the division of their flesh.

I do think that you ignored, or at least minimized, one vital part of the discussion.

To speak of it would be giving importance to something that has none.

Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.

What we hate, what we fear, is being ignored.

The Atomic Theory and the Periodic Law have been given prominence, since their neglect unfailingly leads to obscurity and triviality.

The penalty for scientific irrelevance is, of course, that the statistician's work is ignored by the scientific community.

Indeed, it is sometimes almost as if the problem had to be forgotten to be solved.

Unmentioned, what is can become as though it were not.

To be forgotten. The French say that to part is to die a little. To be forgotten too is to die a little. It is to lose some of the links that anchor us to the rest of humanity.