Quotes About Relative Truth

#1. Truth is relative. Truth is what you can make the voter believe is the truth. If you're smart enough, truth is what you make the voter think it is. That's why I'm a Democrat. I can make the Democratic voters think whatever I want them to.

James Carville

#2. The truth that could be extracted from words was such a fluctuating, relative truth.

Henry Handel Richardson

#3. We never stop to consider that our beliefs are only a relative truth that's always going to be distorted by all the knowledge we have stored in our memory.

Don Miguel Ruiz

#4. Spiritual bypassing often adopts a rationale based on using absolute truth to deny or disparage relative truth.

Ethan Nichtern

#5. The existence of relative truth does not prove the non-existence of universal truth.

Idries Shah

#6. We who are interested in relative truth have to keep digging for it and not let ourselves be sucked under.

Holly Near

#7. What makes us most human is not whether we are or are not biologically driven and determined beings; but, rather, how we respond to this relative truth. The conscious choices we make in related to the dynamic, psychobiological forces of the daimonic define our humanity.

Stephen A. Diamond

#8. I encounter one example after another of how relative truth is.

Raoul Wallenberg

#9. Human thought by its nature is capable of giving, and does give, absolute truth, which is compounded of a sum-total of relative truths.

Vladimir Lenin

#10. If beauty is relative, then any and everything when compared to the beauty of God is absolutely hideous.

Criss Jami

#11. Truth is relative, then. It is about timing. It is about what is safe. Truth is the luxury of the privileged, of people who have plenty of food and are not forced to hide because they are Jews. Truth can destroy, and therefore it is not always wise or even healthy to be truthful.

Patricia Cornwell

#12. Truth is relative, and there is always something missing in truth that prevents it from being perfect.

Nawal El Saadawi

#13. If truth is relative, then it's cousin is anarchy.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#14. Beyond happiness and unhappiness is truth. Truth is not affected by anything in the relative world. Truth is the unifying aspect of existence.

Frederick Lenz

#15. Human love has little regard for the truth. It makes the truth relative, since nothing, not even the truth, must come between it and the beloved person.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#16. Standards are different for all things, so the standard set by man is by no means the only 'certain' standard. If you mistake what is relative for something certain, you have strayed far from the ultimate truth.

Zhuangzi

#17. Altitude reduces all things to their relative proportions, and to the truth. Cares, remorse, disgust become strangers: How easily indifference, contempt, forgetfulness drop away ... and forgiveness descends.

Julian Barnes

#18. Truths are not relative. What is relative are opinions about truth.

Nicolas Gomez Davila

#19. The Bible's been attacked. What is truth? It's relative.

Todd Burpo

#20. The seeker of God is the real lover of vidya, unchangeable truth; all else is avidya, relative knowledge.

Paramahansa Yogananda

#21. When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion. The complex is made over into the simple, the hypothetical into the dogmatic, and the relative into an absolute.

Walter Lippmann

#22. The truth is that relative income is not directly related to happiness. Nonpartisan social-survey data clearly show that the big driver of happiness is earned success: a person's belief that he has created value in his life or the life of others.

Arthur C. Brooks

#23. Our violent, narcissistic, noncommittal, "me first" culture is simply the logical and predictable expression of "truth" as a relative, subjective, unverifiable concept.

Chip Ingram

#24. The bookis a distant relative of the truth, and the film is a distant relative of the book,

Danny Porush

#25. It seems that truth is progressive approximation in which the relative fraction of our spontaneously tolerated residual error constantly diminishes.

R. Buckminster Fuller

#26. You May Understand The Value of Time Well During Pressure. It's Totally A Relative Matter ...

Muhammad Imran Hasan

#27. Even when the truth is in fact simple, simplicity is still relative.

Criss Jami

#28. In this play we're dealing with relative truths - who's lying, who's telling the truth. But underneath that, Ed and I have hit this deeper level of intimacy between old friends that comes out in the play.

Fred Ward

#29. Truth has always been relative in China, but political power has not, they say, and the same is still true today.

Rob Gifford

#30. To fail to exhibit that we take truth seriously at those points where there is a cost in our doing so, is to push the next generation in the relative, dialectical millstream that surrounds us.

Francis A. Schaeffer

#31. Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.

Barbara Kingsolver

#32. The Sufi must be able to alternate his thought between the relative and the Absolute, the approximate and the Real.

Idries Shah

#33. The truth is an arbitrary, shifting, culturally relative, and historically molded phenomenon.

Ken Wilber

#34. Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it.

Gustave Courbet

#35. Truth is only relative to those that ignore hard evidence.

A.E. Samaan

#36. It is hard to witness to truth to people who believe truth is relative. It is hard to proclaim the forgiveness of sins to people who believe that, since morality is relative, they have no sins to forgive.

Gene Veith

#37. Only very odd people don't realize that truth-telling is always a relative value.

John Gardner

#38. Lies erase. Lies are power. Power to be had by you. Truth is relative, no? Power defeats truth, paper, scissors. Are you faux real?

David David Katzman

#39. A writer who says that there are no truths, or that all truth is 'merely relative,' is asking you not to believe him. So don't.

Roger Scruton

#40. Holly was playing the concerned relative, the devoted sister, and if it was a ham performance Robin was experienced enough, now, to know that there were usually nuggets of truth to be sifted from even the most obvious dross.

Robert Galbraith

#41. Truth becomes a relative and disputable term in the alternate reality of partisan politics

Michael Rejebian

#42. Truth is relative," the man replied. "Our minds have a tendency to remember things only the way in which they happened to us, the way they made us feel. It results in us inadvertently lying about what we experienced

Dylan Saccoccio

#43. Socrates is not just expounding noble ideas in a vacuum. He is in the middle of a war between those who think truth is absolute and those who think truth is relative. He is fighting that war with everything he has.

Robert M. Pirsig

#44. The absolute truth is one for an infinity of possible relative truths which lie.

Sorin Cerin

#45. The world in which we now live is a world whose outlook is so distorted that we absolutize what is relative (money-making, power, success) and relativize what is absolute (truth, moral values, and God).

Alice Von Hildebrand

#46. I cannot often enough say, that a man is only a relative and representative nature. Each is a hint of the truth, but far enough from being that truth, which yet he quite newly and inevitably suggests to us. If I seek it in him, I shall not find it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#47. There is one thing a professor can be absolutely certain of: almost every student entering the university believes, or says he believes, that truth is relative.

Allan Bloom

#48. Of course, there are different truths on different levels. Things are true relative to other things; "long" and "short" relate to each other, "high" and "low," and so on. But is there any absolute truth? Something self-sufficient, independently true in itself? I don't think so.

Dalai Lama

#49. The death of a lesser man is the death of all those who believe themselves to be greater.

Shaun Hick

#50. I do not want to drive across a bridge designed by an engineer who believed the numbers in structural stress models are relative truths.

R.C. Sproul

#51. Relative truths can also be absolute.
Relative absolute truths are like two people looking at the same coin, from two different sides, each sees a different truth and presumes they are looking at the same coin, and yet neither side can see the third side.

Caesar J. B. Squitti

#52. Most people do surprisingly poorly when dealing with a relative who is hurting, depressed, or anxious - we get defensive and try to solve the problem rather than finding the truth in what the person is saying.

David D. Burns

#53. At some point I believe one has to stop holding back for fear of alienating some imaginary reader or real relative or friend, and come out with personal truth.

May Sarton

#54. There is synthesis when, in combining therein judgments that are made known to us from simpler relations, one deduces judgments from them relative to more complicated relations.
There is analysis when from a complicated truth one deduces more simple truths.

Andre-Marie Ampere

#55. All attributes of the relative self (prakrut) in the world have arisen due to lack of understanding. All this has arisen due to not understanding the truth. One has been wandering around for countless lives and still one considers oneself so great!

Dada Bhagwan

#56. Truth is not something that is relative to one situation and then changes to fit another situation. Truth is constant, never changing.

Gwen Burton

#57. Since the Bible has quite a lot to say about truth - and since it also has plenty to say about how particular individuals relate to that truth - it has become easy to imagine that its claims can and should be reduced to particular, and highly relative and situational, angles of vision.

N. T. Wright

#58. Relative terms do not make for relative truths. All truth values are absolute in their own context, because all statements either correspond to reality or they do not.

Douglas Beaumont

#59. Truth is relative!

Manaswini

#60. The purity of happiness we experience will always be relative to how freely we can embrace truth.

Elaina Marie

#61. Truth is, of course, relative. But then, so is relative.

James Sallis

#62. We're doomed to be do-gooders for the rest of our lives and doomed to fail. But, happily, truth is a relative business.

Jo Nesbo

#63. If truth and moral values are relative, one cannot claim that certain human rights are universally applicable to all cultures and all people.

Stephen McAndrew