Irrelevance Quotes

“Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger, portion of truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, The Mystery of Marie Rogêt

“When the shine is wearing off and the underlying cracks of a garlanded lifestyle become painfully apparent, reality may inexorably take its toll and gruelingly reveal the presence of a blatant and hideous gap of irrelevance and vanity. ("Could the milk man be the devil?" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

“Yeah. Floyd is his batman."
His what?"
Batman, like in the British army, each officer had a batman, a personal servant."
You spend too much time reading, Spenser. You know more stuff that don't make you money than anybody I know.”
― Robert B. Parker, Mortal Stakes

“Voting, we might even say, is the next to last refuge of the politically impotent. The last refuge is, of course, giving your opinion to a pollster, who will get a version of it through a desiccated question, and then will submerge it in a Niagara of similar opinions, and convert them into--what else?--another piece of news. Thus we have here a great loop of impotence: The news elicits from you a variety of opinions about which you can do nothing except to offer them as more news, about which you can do nothing.”
― Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

“If you don't like change, you're going to like irrelevance even less.”
― David F. Jakielo

“If you don’t like change, you’ll like irrelevance even less.”
― Eric Shinseki

“Digital dictatorships are not the only danger awaiting us. Alongside liberty, liberal order has also set great store by the value of equality. Liberalism always cherished political equality, and it gradually came to realise that economic equality is almost as important. For without a social safety net and a modicum of economic equality, liberty is meaningless. But just as Big Data algorithms might extinguish liberty, they might simultaneously create the most unequal societies that ever existed. All wealth and power might be concentrated in the hands of a tiny elite, while most people will suffer not from exploitation, but from something far worse – irrelevance.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century

“This irrelevance of molecular arrangements for macroscopic results has given rise to the tendency to confine physics and chemistry to the study of homogeneous systems as well as homogeneous classes. In statistical mechanics a great deal of labor is in fact spent on showing that homogeneous systems and homogeneous classes are closely related and to a considerable extent interchangeable concepts of theoretical analysis (Gibbs theory). Naturally, this is not an accident. The methods of physics and chemistry are ideally suited for dealing with homogeneous classes with their interchangeable components. But experience shows that the objects of biology are radically inhomogeneous both as systems (structurally) and as classes (generically). Therefore, the method of biology and, consequently, its results will differ widely from the method and results of physical science.”
― Walter M. Elsasser, Atom and Organism: A New Aproach to Theoretical Biology

“Nadine found herself standing in front of a row of streaming faces, like waxworks of forgotten celebrities being melted down before coming back as more contemporary figures.”
― Pascal Garnier, Moon in a Dead Eye

“Irrelevance only creeps up on you if you let it.”
― Stewart Stafford

“Saying, 'I don't know' is the beginning of the journey into self-discovery. Saying, 'I don't know and I don't care to know' is an admission of staleness and irrelevance. Saying, 'I don't know and I will like to know' is an announcement progress is about to be recorded. Going beyond knowing to applying is taking self and society on the path of transformation.”
― Abiodun Fijabi

“No matter how good you are! Never allow yourself becoming irrelevant? It’s like a wandering soul without the body. Suddenly you are invisible. No-one notice your presence, want to do something but it would make no difference, want to say something but you are voiceless. You require people to listen, but they cant. The set-up is different, you are there but you aren’t.”
― Shahenshah Hafeez Khan

“The distance between significance and irrelevance is shorter than you think. It could be traveled in a single day, a single moment, or even a single word.”
― Sean Norris, Heaven and Hurricanes

“The point is, I understand about rumors and bullshit gossip all of these bored fuckers like to sling around. The only reason they do it is ‘cause their own lives are fucking boring. If you’re at the center of a rumor, it just means you’re more interesting than anyone else. You’ll be the one who they remember years from now. And isn’t that the point of living a life at all? To be remembered?”
― Daryl Banner, When I See You Again

“We have become used to obstructionist ideas. In the name of modernisation we are unconsciously hindering the natural flow of life. The fact that we are irritated, depressed, and distressed speaks volumes of our illogical ambitions to acquire control of this planet. Mostly, philosophically challenged and scant respect for natural way of life is making us irrelevant.”
― Amitav Chowdhury

“God has no regard for the ignorant.”
― Sunday Adelaja, The Mountain of Ignorance

“Poverty is irrelevant when there is proper time conversion.”
― Sunday Adelaja, How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?

“The greatest evidence we have that God does matter is all of the time and energy we put into telling ourselves that He doesn’t.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Orthodoxy is the departure lounge for irrelevance.”
― Stewart Stafford

“Mankind seeks to destroy that which challenges its supremacy. Therefore, if God doesn’t exist and Biblical principles are irrelevant, why does mankind spend so much time seeking to destroy both?”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The alternative to change is irrelevance”
― Andrew Carlson, The Creative Team: Notes on design and operation of creative organizations