Quotes About Relevance

the relevance of epistemology for the study of psychology and psychological development is that epistemological assumptions often remain tacit. Practically, this amounts to many psychologists basing their theories on assumptions that originate in the empiricist tradition (Piaget, 1970/1972a, p. 10).

Any fact becomes important when it's connected to another.

Every time someone tells me how sharp my photos are, I assume that it isn't a very interesting photograph. If it were, they would have more to say.

When an idea is preserved, isn't its form unimportant.

And our conscience is getting old, its an old woman, and no one looks at it anymore.

Why seek some higher truth and service, when all the truth is in the fact that you're worth nothing and won't be worth anything anymore, that everything that you came into the world to do, you've done long ago, and that your only work now is to be a burden to others. Is that so? Is it?

As the author of a work, I don't relinquish author-ity to just any critic, particularly not to people whose work I've not read or don't respect; those biased by envy are the least relevant, and grounded grammarians who strangle or sterilize under a banner of superiority are a close second.

Maturity means the ability to see what is important and what is not.

I can't get my knickers in a twist about my age and ageing in an industry that caters to the ids of 14-year-olds.

I have told you all this because you matter to him, Lark.

People clamor to tell their stories in words. This doesn't make them writers, Nor does it make their stories matter.

We must allow, therefore, that God speaks in a way that meshes with the surrounding context, and also that he can say what he wishes to say, distinct from the context.

society in which anyone over the age of 40 is regarded as worthless and disposable.

He who does not move with the times is a dead man

Men like me are impossible until the day when they become necessary.

to make him pay you for your product, you must make it pay him to read about it.

Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.

Beauty is vanishing from our world because we live as though it does not matter.

All I have going is my looks. When my beauty goes, I'm through.

Truth has beauty, power, and necessity.

I try to see their moral relevance [in the Bible] and, of course, to admire the literary beauty of the text. Prophetic poetry: No one has written the way Isaiah does.

The very best pictures adapt themselves to many changes in meaning.

The best way to be boring is to include everything.

How can the Replacements be the best band of the 80s when I've never even heard of them?