Dismissive Quotes

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

Words that do not match deeds are unimportant.

It reduces all the revolutions, the struggles, the pain, the great dreams—everything—to nonsense! It means that life is pointless!"
"Not pointless," Brazil put in suddenly. "It just means that the grand schemes are pointless. It means that you don't make your own life pointless or useless—most people do, you know. It wouldn't make any difference if ninety-nine percent of the people of the human race—or any other—lived or not. Except in sheer numbers their lives are dull, vegetative, and non-productive.

I am aware of the technical distinction between ‘less’ and ‘fewer’, and between ‘uninterested’ and ‘disinterested’ and ‘infer’ and ‘imply’, but none of these are of importance to me. ‘None of these are of importance,’ I wrote there, you’ll notice – the old pedantic me would have insisted on “none of them is of importance”. Well I’m glad to say I’ve outgrown that silly approach to language

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

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.

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

God is either of no importance, or of supreme importance.

Anything whose presence or absence makes no discernible difference is no essential part of the whole.

Intelligence consists in ignoring things that are irrelevant.

Doing something unimportant well does not make it important.

Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.

Thinking is a momentary dismissal of irrelevancies.

A poor relation—is the most irrelevant thing in nature.

To assume all the knowledge to be given to a single mind...is to disregard everything that is important and significant in the real world.