Irrelevant Quotes
375 Irrelevant quotes by 324 unique authors
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They were indeed what was known as 'old money', which meant that it had been made so long ago that the black deeds which had…
— Terry Pratchett
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Wrong' training can be a very innocent thing. Consider a father who allows his child to read good books. That child may soon cease to…
— Paul Goodman
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Why make yourself miserable saying things like, "Why do we have such bad luck? What has God done to us? What have we done to…
— Richard P. Feynman
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That I have no right to be jealous is irrelevant. It is a human passion: the sick, white underbelly of love.
— Anita Shreve
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Mundane humans create distinctions between themselves, distinctions that seem ridiculous to any Shadowhunter. Their distinctions are based on race, religion, national identity, any of a…
— Cassandra Clare
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Truth is irrelevant. What is relevant is whether or not they believe it." The logic in the words grated. "The first rule of scoundrels?
— Sarah MacLean
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They think that intelligence is about noticing things are relevant (detecting patterns); in a complex world, intelligence consists in ignoring things that are irrelevant (avoiding…
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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It's not irrelevant, those moments of connection, those places where fiction saves your life. It's the most important thing there is.
— Neil Gaiman
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The question of whether one alleges the Superiority or Inferiority of any given race is irrelevant; racism has only one psychological root: the racist's sense…
— Ayn Rand
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When the entire world is built on death and horror, when existence is a constant state of panic, it's hard to get worked up about…
— Isaac Marion
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Great vision without great people is irrelevant.
— James C. Collins
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Conversation was irrelevant. Only pie mattered.
— Richelle Mead
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The first sentence of a book is a handshake, perhaps an embrace. Style and personality are irrelevant. They can be formal or casual. They can…
— Jhumpa Lahiri
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Sometimes we must interfere. When human lives are endangered, when human dignity is in jeopardy, national borders and sensitivities become irrelevant. Whenever men or women…
— Elie Wiesel
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The effective executive knows that it is easier to raise the performance of one leader than it is to raise the performance of a whole…
— Peter Drucker
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It may not be irrelevant to note that even very modest forms of life, like earthworms, dung beetles and fiddler crabs, have no trouble identifying…
— Unknown Author
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Historians of a generation ago were often shocked by the violence with which scientists rejected the history of their own subject as irrelevant; they could…
— I. Bernard Cohen
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The downside, of course, is that over time religions become encrusted with precepts and ideas that are the antithesis of soul, as each faith tries…
— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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If the schooling system does not rapidly close the gap between what it does, and what it should do in response to the demands of…
— David Hood
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I have no interest in celebrities. If all the superrich disappeared, the world economy would not even notice. The superrich are irrelevant to the economy.
— Peter Drucker
Who Wrote These Irrelevant Quotes
324 authors contributed a total of 375 Irrelevant Quotes, led by these top contributors: