“The significance of the rose? I thought. Who gives a shit? What's the significance of the white tulips? That was a question worth answering.”
“we make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers”
“Our greatest failing is that we neglect the significance of a question and obsess over the accuracy of the answer. Therefore, we end up being satisfied with remarkably accurate answers to meaningless questions and dissatisfied with imprecise answers that attempt to respond to the important issues.”
“Have mountains, and waves, and skies, no significance but what we consciously give them, when we employ them as emblems of our thoughts?”
“The vast majority of those who are famous are not significant and the vast majority of those who are significant are not famous.”
“What is sometimes thought to be clever is, significantly often, merely an advanced form of foolishness.”