Quotes About Relevance

He] believed both love and hate to be irrelevant. To him, they were impediments of the human condition, and, in his words again, imagine what could be accomplished if the human race would only shed its humanity.

By excluding the human factor, aren't we risking the kind of personal detachment from a history that may, heaven forbid, lead us one day to repeat it? And in the end, isn't the human factor the only true difference between us and the enemy we now refer to as "the living dead"?

Women certainly learn a lot from books oriented toward a masculine world. Why is not the reverse also true? Or are men really so afraid of women's creativity (because they are not themselves at the center of creation, cannot bear children) that a woman writer of genius evokes murderous rage, must be brushed aside with a sneer as "irrelevant"? When

Why had I taken all those useless classes like bio and German when I should have been taking lipreading?

Thrust into this dingy classroom we die like lampless moths locked into the desolation of fluorescent lights and metal desks. Ten minutes until the bell rings. What use is the quadratic formula in our daily lives? Can we use it to unlock the secrets in the hearts of those we love? Five minutes until the bell rings. Cruel Algebra teacher, won't you let us go?

I guess there was a war going on somewhere in the world that night but it wasn't one that could touch us.

It isn't you,' he says, as though you're to be comforted by the irrelevant role you play in your own life.

Paul and Elder remind us: Critical thinkers are clear as to the purpose at hand and the question at issue. They question information, conclusions and point of view. They strive to be clear, accurate, precise, and relevant. They seek to think beneath the surface, to be logical and fair. They apply these skills to their reading and writing as well as to their speaking and listening. Critical thinking

If you want to be relevant only in your household, then you only need to know the things that are important in your house, and if you want to be relevant in your neighborhood, you need to know what's important in your neighborhood. The same thing applies to your city, state, and country. And if you want to be relevant to the entire world, program that computer known as your brain with all kinds of information from everywhere in order to prepare yourself.

The Constitution of the United States was written in such a way as to restrain government growth and power if there was the will to adhere to it, but unfortunately many of our legislators feel that the Constitution is outdated and largely irrelevant to today's society.

Society may not need you, strictly speaking, but some sort of use can usually be found.

La società può anche non avere bisogno di te, in senso stretto, ma di solito un modo di utilizzarti lo trova.

Jak jsme se pou?ili? V krátkém období se trh Grahamovým princip?m vysmívá, ale v dlouhém období se jim vždy dostane rehabilitace. Jestliže nakupujete akcie jen proto, že jejich cena roste - místo toho, abyste se ptali, zda se zvyÅ¡ue fundamentální hodnota spole?nosti-eminenta - bude vás to dÃ…â"¢íve nebo pozdÄ›ji Å¡erednÄ› mrzet. To není jen pravdÄ›podobnost. To je jistota.

The only purpose a Council serves is to make you all feel important.

These word-stringers make nothing, grow nothing, kill no enemies, catch no fish and raise no cattle. They just take silver in exchange for words, which are free anyway. It is a clever trick, but in truth they are about as much use as priests.

The attempt to politicize everything is the destruction of politics. When everything is seen as relevant to politics, than politics has in fact become totalitarian.

There is probably no way for Westerners to understand Asian religions from a purely traditional Indian, Chinese, or Japanese perspective, but perhaps is there no need either to do so.

I was astonished at how much older literature can actually be read as if it were contemporary.

The ideal of an "all-round" education is out of date; it has been destroyed by the progress of knowledge.

I was made to learn Latin and Greek, but I resented it, being of opinion that it was silly to learn a language that was no longer spoken. I believe that all the little good I got from years of classical studies I could have got in adult life in a month.

There is a certain tendency in our practical age to consider that it does not much matter whether religious teaching is true or not, since the important question is whether it is useful.

I have not found in Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations anything that seemed to me interesting and I do not understand why a whole school finds important wisdom in its pages.

A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.

I will do everything that is required from me, but if people get bored of me, I can't control their emotions.