Quotes about Relevance
He does not write at all whose poems no man reads
- Marcus Aurelius
There is nothing but is related to us, nothing that does not interest us,--kingdom, college, tree, horse, or iron show,--the rootsof all things are in man.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Real question is not who was this man (Jesus), but who is this man?
- John Ortberg
A lucky person gets up in the morning, puts both feet on the floor, knows what they're about to do and thinks it still matters.
- Joe Biden
Just because something is easy to measure doesn't mean it's important.
- Seth Godin
Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly.
- Joseph Addison
Philosophy, to be relevant, must offer us a wisdom to live by.
- Abraham Joshua Heschel
The less power a church has, the more entertainment it has.
- Leonard Ravenhill
Religion fails if it cannot speak to men as they are.
- William Barclay
I'm not afraid of failure, I'm afraid of succeeding at things that don't matter.
- William Carey
The past is never dead. It's not even past.
- William Faulkner
If I have not read a book before, it is, to all intents and purposes, new to me, whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago.
- William Hazlitt