Top 44 No Absolutes Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About No Absolutes

#1. If you're going to figure something out, study ethics. You can ask What's the answer? What's Right and Wrong? What I learned is that nobody knows the answer and there is no Right and Wrong. So I'm incapable of becoming a fundamentalist because there are no absolutes, there's always a what if.

Duff Goldman

#2. There are no absolutes in this world, and there will always be mistakes that are made within brokerage firms; there will always be people who set out to deceive the regulators and even deceive their own senior management.

Mary Schapiro

#3. Truth.
In a court of law it is little more than an interpretive tool, in reality, there are no absolutes in life, and any truth will change over time, at the end of the day, if it hurts its bad if it doesn't hurt its good, and truth sort of lurks in between those two extremes.

Steve Merrick

#4. Since there are no absolutes, when it's convenient, you change the rules. Do we know any politicians that have done that?

Ted Cruz

#5. Miracles are statistical improbabilities. And fate is an illusion humanity uses to comfort itself in the dark. There are no absolutes in life, save death.

Amie Kaufman

#6. There are no absolutes.' 'I think there are,' said Sidney. 'Fairness, justice, toleration, support for the weak, care for those in need, truth and love.

James Runcie

#7. Are you absolutely sure there are no absolutes?

Patrick Friar

#8. There is no such thing as winning or losing. There is won and there is lost; there is victory and defeat. There are no absolutes. Everything inbetween is left to fight for.

Derek Landy

#9. There's no absolutes in life - only vodka.

Mick Jagger

#10. There are no absolutes in relationships. You can't take anything for granted. You can count on absolutely nothing but the unexpected. You only get in trouble when you start thinking that you're some kind of exception to the rule.

Emily Giffin

#11. But there are no absolutes in human misery and things can always get worse

Cormac McCarthy

#12. There are no absolutes in raising children. In any stressful situation, fathering is always a roll of the dice. The game may be messy, but I have never found one with more joys and rewards.

Bill Cosby

#13. There were no absolutes in fiction, no certain way to deliver what was needed. So it was no surprise most technical writers considered novel-writing a gateway to madness.

S.A. Reid

#14. There are no absolutes, and your way is neither the only way nor the right way.

Stephen Richards

#15. The rule seems to be that there are no absolutes, that what is rare is prized. Thus, in times of relative affluence, thin models become dominant.

Charles Jencks

#16. In this unbelievable universe in which we live, there are no absolutes. Even parallel lines, reaching into infinity, meet somewhere yonder.

Pearl S. Buck

#17. There are no absolutes in golf. Golf is such an individual game, and no two people swing alike.

Kathy Whitworth

#18. There are no absolutes for something so relative as a human life.
There are no rules for something so gentle as a heart.

Hugh Prather

#19. If musicians and artists have no absolutes, they end up caring more about the way the thing is told than about the thing itself, and they slide deeper and deeper till it's their means rather than the ends that matter.

Ravi Zacharias

#20. People often indiscriminately use absolutes in their utterances: every, everyone, everything, all, always, never, no one, nothing. Rarely are these absolute terms justified.

Robert J. Gula

#21. I do not rest on the broad upland of a system that includes a series of sure statements about the absolutes, but on a narrow, rocky ridge between the gulfs where there is no sureness of expressible knowledge but [only] the certainty of meeting what remains, undisclosed.

Martin Buber

#22. There is no god and there is no soul. Hence, there is no need for the props of traditional religion. With dogma and creed excluded, then immutable truth is dead and buried. There is no room for fixed and natural law or permanent moral absolutes.

John Dewey

#23. There can be no absolute reality, there can be no absolute truth.

Kevin Warwick

#24. Once war becomes a clash of absolutes, there is no breathing room for mercy. Absolute truth is blind truth.

Deepak Chopra

#25. What is freedom? There is no such thing as absolute freedom!

Benito Mussolini

#26. The only absolute truth is that there are no absolute truths.

Paul Feyerabend

#27. In Paris explanations come in a predictable sequence, no matter what is being explained. First comes the explanation in terms of the unique, romantic individual, then the explanation in terms of ideological absolutes, and then the explanation in terms of the futility of all explanation.

Adam Gopnik

#28. The world is not that black and white, Rachel. There are no moral absolutes. It is complex.

Emily Giffin

#29. The death of Pope John Paul II led many of different faiths and of no faith to acknowledge their debt to the Roman Catholic Church for holding on to absolutes that the rest of us can measure ourselves against.

Suzanne Fields

#30. What is liberty? There is no such thing as absolute liberty!

Benito Mussolini

#31. And the only answer I know is
That no child should give up on life.
Math deals in absolutes.
But life is the most absolute of all.

Terri Fields

#32. The surest way to lose democracy is to take it for granted. Every citizen must contribute to its advancement in some way. No nation or culture can long survive the absence of transcendent values and absolutes.

Carl F. H. Henry

#33. I used to exercise an hour every day - no excuses. I live in absolutes: I either exercise every day, or I let myself off the hook. I'm trying to find that balance of working out three or four days a week and sticking to it.

Anna Kendrick

#34. It is not that there are no certainties, it is that it is an absolute certainty that there are no certainties.

Christopher Hitchens

#35. If there is no absolute by which to judge society, society is absolute.

Francis Schaeffer

#36. There is no pleasing New Englanders, my dear, their soil is all rocks and their hearts are bloodless absolutes.

John Updike

#37. Despite what they tell you, there are simply no moral absolutes in a complex world.

Berkeley Breathed

#38. There is no such thing as an absolute truth to be discovered.

T. E. Hulme

#39. (He) mourned mankind, and the blindness of men, who thought that the Kosmos had rules and limits that would shelter them from their own freedom. There were no shelters. There were no final purposes. Futility, and freedom, were Absolute

Bruce Sterling