Top 100 Quotes About Absolutes
#1. 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
#2. The victory over Euclidean space was not achieved by isolated individuals, but by a field of young rebels opposed to all absolutes.
Marshall McLuhan
#3. 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
#6. It is undoubtedly easier to believe in absolutes, follow blindly, mouth received wisdom. But that is self-betrayal.
John Ralston Saul
#7. Secularism does not accept many things as absolutes. Its principal objectives are pleasure and self-interest. Often, those who embrace secularism have a different look about them.
James E. Faust
#8. 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
#9. There are no absolutes in golf. Golf is such an individual game, and no two people swing alike.
Kathy Whitworth
#10. Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.
Novalis
#11. There is no conflict in the absolute universe, but there is conflict in the relative world.
Koichi Tohei
#12. Only through absolute loyalty to each other can the few control the many.
Peter J. Carroll
#13. The pragmatist turns away from abstraction and insufficiency, from verbal solutions, from bad a priori reasons, from fixed principles, closed systems, and pretended absolutes and origins. He turns toward concreteness and adequacy, towards facts, towards action, and towards power.
William James
#14. God is not an optional extra, He's an absolute must!
C.S. Lewis
#15. It almost always happens that true, but exaggerated, coloring is more agreeable than absolute coloring.
Michel Eugene Chevreul
#16. There always exists an absolute norm to be preserved
Pope Pius XII
#17. Stupidity would not be absolute stupidity did it not fear intelligence.
Nicolas Chamfort
#18. In this treacherous world
Nothing is the truth nor a lie.
Everything depends on the color
Of the crystal through which one sees it
Pedro Calderon De La Barca
#19. Comes over one an absolute necessity to move. And what is more, to move in some particular direction. A double necessity then: to get on the move, and to know whither.
D.H. Lawrence
#20. Those of religious faith see time as evidence of god. For surely nothing could be created without a creator. Nothing could be universal and not be divine. All absolutes are part of the One Absolute.
Alan Lightman
#21. The Absolute God of the universe, the creator, preserver, and destroyer of the universe, is impersonal principle.
Swami Vivekananda
#22. When absolutes are abandoned for principles, the U.S. Constitution becomes a blank slate for anyone's graffiti.
Wayne LaPierre
#23. Reality is an absolute, existence is an absolute, a speck of dust is an absolute and so is a human life. Whether you live or die is an absolute. Whether you have a piece of bread or not, is an absolute. Whether you eat your bread or see it vanish into a looter's stomach, is an absolute.
Ayn Rand
#24. Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.
Pope John Paul II
#26. Most people believe you have to have some moral absolutes if you want to hold back chaos.
Peter Kreeft
#27. It is an absolute perfection ... to get the very most out of one's individuality.
Michel De Montaigne
#28. In this unbelievable universe in which we live, there are no absolutes. Even parallel lines, reaching into infinity, meet somewhere yonder.
Pearl S. Buck
#29. All of us experience, to a greater or lesser extent, a loneliness that results from not having enough anchors, enough absolutes, and enough permanent roots to make us feel secure and stable in a world characterized by transience.
Ronald Rolheiser
#30. The only absolute attainment is absolute abandonment.
Gore Vidal
#31. The Absolute and the Infinite can become this universe only by limitation.
Swami Vivekananda
#32. Paradox is a pointer telling you to look beyond it. If paradoxes bother you, that betrays your deep desire for absolutes. The relativist treats a paradox merely as interesting, perhaps amusing or even, dreadful thought, educational.
Frank Herbert
#33. One must never allow oneself to acquire an exaggerated sense of one's own importance. There's no necessity to burden oneself with absolutes
Ayn Rand
#34. Effort is the key in the relative; effortlessness is the key to the Absolute.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
#35. Baseball's absolute unpredictability makes amateurs of us all
Roger Angell
#37. Ardent believers hide within the safety of their absolutes, for much more courage is needed to abandon their cozy security for the questioning of ones own beliefs.
Galen Watson
#39. After years of seeing the world in absolutes, he has taught me how to pick out all the shades of possibilities.
Jodi Picoult
#40. in the absence of a biblical morality a new elite will always come forward to dictate arbitrary absolutes to society
Francis A. Schaeffer
#43. Words like 'always' and 'never' were meaningful to my father, who thought in absolutes and whose mind consequently made great leaps in antagonistic directions when it leapt at all.
Tsitsi Dangarembga
#44. When you find your definitions in God, you find the very purpose for which you were created. Put your hand into God's hand, know His absolutes, demonstrate His love, present His truth, and the message of redemption and transformation will take hold.
Ravi Zacharias
#47. Truth is always unfolding. It's not an absolute.
Alan Arkin
#48. It is the absolute right of India to misgovern herself.
Mahatma Gandhi
#49. 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
#50. (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
#51. The four absolutes we all have in our minds: love, justice, evil, and forgiveness.
Ravi Zacharias
#52. The beginning of religion, more precisely its content, is the concept of religion itself, that God is the absolute truth, the truth of all things, and subjectively that religion alone is the absolutely true knoweldge.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
#53. Today there seems to be only one absolute thing: relativism.
Joseph Goebbels
#54. If you depart from moral absolutes, you go into a bottomless pit. Communism and Nazism were catastrophic evils which both derived from moral relativism. Their differences were minor compared to their similarities.
Paul Johnson
#55. Doing the right thing at all costs is an absolute, and only a sith deals in absolutes.
Dave Filoni
#56. Science doesn't purvey absolute truth. Science is a mechanism ... for testing your thoughts against the universe.
Isaac Asimov
#57. I trust that absolutes have gradations.
Jane Austen
#58. To apologize for your personal absolutes, for what Sandy Pinter calls your "Core Attachments," means apologizing for your very existence.
Walter Kirn
#59. I had always looked upon the search for the absolute as the noblest and most worth while task of science.
Max Planck
#60. You and I and everything in the universe are that Absolute, not parts, but the whole. You are the whole of that Absolute, and so are all others, because the idea of part cannot come into it.
Swami Vivekananda
#61. What makes spinal-cord injuries as devastating as they are is that everything about them plays out in absolutes: they are instantaneous, utterly disabling and horribly permanent.
Jeffrey Kluger
#62. Nature brings us back to absolute truth whenever we wander.
Louis Agassiz
#63. Good and bad aren't absolutes. They are beliefs, judgements, ideas based on limited knowledge as well as on the inclinations of our minds.
Steve Hagen
#64. If we don't believe in moral absolutes and then we get into a cultural-political debate, how are we going to win?
Randall Terry
#65. I have made three rules of writing for myself that are absolutes: Never take advice. Never show or discuss work in progress. Never answer a critic.
Raymond Chandler
#67. Obsoletes and absolutes are the stock in trade of religions that place their faith in an 'unchanging' god while faced with the reality of an ever-changing world.
Stifyn Emrys
#68. There is no such thing as an absolute truth to be discovered.
T. E. Hulme
#69. There are no absolutes, and your way is neither the only way nor the right way.
Stephen Richards
#70. Therefore it does not help to sneer at the imperfection of today's reality or to preach absolutes as a daily agenda.
Gustav Heinemann
#71. 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
#72. If there is a choice between absolute safety and freedom, then freedom must always prevail.
Salman Rushdie
#74. Despite what they tell you, there are simply no moral absolutes in a complex world.
Berkeley Breathed
#75. There is no pleasing New Englanders, my dear, their soil is all rocks and their hearts are bloodless absolutes.
John Updike
#76. The Absolute cannot be worshipped, so we must worship a manifestation.
Swami Vivekananda
#78. 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
#79. If there is no absolute by which to judge society, society is absolute.
Francis Schaeffer
#80. How to know, oh how to know! All is relative ease and facility in orthodoxy, yet how can it be denied that good is in itself undeniable? Absolutes are the most uncertain of all formulations, while the uncertainties are the most real ...
Jack Vance
#82. If you want a significant man, with absolutes, morality, and meaning, then you must have what the Bible insists upon - that God will judge men justly, and they will not be able to raise their voices because of the base upon which He judges them.
Francis Schaeffer
#83. Where absolute superiority is not attainable, you must produce a relative one at the decisive point by making skillful use ofwhat you have.
Carl Von Clausewitz
#84. But I think it is a serious issue to wonder about the other platonic absolutes of say beauty and morality.
Roger Penrose
#85. But there are no absolutes in human misery and things can always get worse
Cormac McCarthy
#86. Before I met Ayn Rand, I was a logical positivist, and accordingly, I didn't believe in absolutes, moral or otherwise. If I couldn't prove a proposition with facts and figures, it was without merit.
Alan Greenspan
#87. Pursuit of the approximate can conclude. Not so pursuit of the absolute.
Mason Cooley
#88. It is my belief that there are "absolutes" in our Bill of Rights, and that they were put there on purpose by men who knew what words meant and meant their prohibitions to be "absolutes."
Hugo Black
#89. 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
#90. If beauty is relative, then any and everything when compared to the beauty of God is absolutely hideous.
Criss Jami
#91. Today we are putting our hopes in materialism, in technological progress, and in freedom from moral absolutes. They have all failed. They've failed because they've been powerless to change the human heart. What is the answer? There is hope, if we will turn to God.
Billy Graham
#92. Rule makers always draw up their precious rules and regulations in safety and comfort, not out in the field, where those same absolutes are supposed to be applied. At those times we have to rely on our own minds and feelings.
Alan Dean Foster
#93. His anguished mind writhed with contradictions. He was a man of parts and halfs, in a time of wholes and absolutes.
Alexander Rose
#94. What fetters the mind and benumbs the spirit is ever the dogged acceptance of absolutes.
Edward Sapir
#96. It's all about perseverance. Absolute perseverance. You can always get back up.
Cory Monteith
#97. It is not that there are no certainties, it is that it is an absolute certainty that there are no certainties.
Christopher Hitchens
#99. Religion is so frequently a source of confusion in political life, and so frequently dangerous to democracy, precisely because it introduces absolutes into the realm of relative values.
Reinhold Niebuhr
#100. Dedication, absolute dedication, is what keeps one ahead!
Bruce Lee
