Irrelevance Quotes

33 quotes by 31 authors

Our culture's adjustment to the epistemology of television is by now all but complete; we have so thoroughly accepted its definitions of truth, knowledge and… — Neil Patrick Harris
If moral statements are about something, then the universe is not quite as science suggests it is, since physical theories, having said nothing about God,… — David Berlinski
Proof is boring. Proof is tiresome. Proof is an irrelevance. People would far rather be handed an easy lie than search for a difficult truth,… — Joe Abercrombie
Within search results, information tied to verified online profiles will be ranked higher than content without such verification, which will result in most users naturally… — Eric Schmidt
There is, however, a moral basis for the vegetarian diet for which the indeterminate value of an animal's life takes on irrelevance. And that moral… — Howard Lyman
If I should throw down a thousand beans at random upon a table, I could doubtless, by eliminating a sufficient number of them, leave the… — William James
Apple was very close to bankruptcy and to irrelevance [but] you learn a lot about life through death, and I learnt a lot about vital… — Jonathan Ive
Fine art, that exists for itself alone, is art in a final state of impotence. If nobody, including the artist, acknowledges art as a means… — Angela Carter
To collude in the minimisation of British history on the grounds of its imagined irrelevance to our rebranded national future, or from a suspicion that… — Simon Schama
By our uncritical pursuit of relevance we have actually courted irrelevance; by our breathless chase after relevance without a matching committment to faithfulness, we have… — Os Guinness
Men have always been a prey to distractions, which arethe original sins of the mind; but never before today has an attempt been made to… — Aldous Huxley
His response was remarkable for its irrelevance, if for nothing else. — Elizabeth Kenny
On graduating from school, a studious young man who would withstand the tedium and monotony of his duties has no choice but to lose himself… — Charles-Augustin de Coulomb
Very often the law of extremity demands an attention to irrelevance. — Janet Frame
The cumulative effect of the Romantic theory of creativity, as played out in the context of belief in the virtue of the avant-garde, is that… — John Walford
But I would like to reach the point where I could cut up an illustrated magazine at random and see to it that the parts… — Gerhard Richter
Poetry often enters through the window of irrelevance. — Mary Caroline Richards
So the experience of death is turned into that of the exchange of functionaries, and anything in the natural relationship to death that is not… — Theodor Adorno
Innovation is the only insurance against irrelevance. — Gary Hamel
We who advocate peace are becoming an irrelevance when we speak peace. The government speaks rubber bullets, live bullets, tear gas, police dogs, detention, and… — Desmond Tutu

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