Quotes about Being Ignored

The importance of knowing nothing is underrated.

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

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

Words that do not match deeds are unimportant.

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.

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

Ignoring a problem is the same as being ignorant of it.

Yes, forgotten by all else, but not by us.

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.

[M]ost of what happens actually is forgotten.

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

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

Intelligence consists in ignoring things that are irrelevant.

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