Top 72 There Are No Absolutes Quotes
#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 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
#10. 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
#11. There are no absolutes, and your way is neither the only way nor the right way.
Stephen Richards
#12. 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
#13. In this unbelievable universe in which we live, there are no absolutes. Even parallel lines, reaching into infinity, meet somewhere yonder.
Pearl S. Buck
#14. There are no absolutes in golf. Golf is such an individual game, and no two people swing alike.
Kathy Whitworth
#15. 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
#16. But there are no absolutes in human misery and things can always get worse
Cormac McCarthy
#17. Truth is always unfolding. It's not an absolute.
Alan Arkin
#20. 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
#21. 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
#24. in the absence of a biblical morality a new elite will always come forward to dictate arbitrary absolutes to society
Francis A. Schaeffer
#25. After years of seeing the world in absolutes, he has taught me how to pick out all the shades of possibilities.
Jodi Picoult
#27. 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
#29. The greatest contribution you can make to women's rights, is to be the absolute ... best at what you do.
Oprah Winfrey
#30. Baseball's absolute unpredictability makes amateurs of us all
Roger Angell
#31. It is the absolute right of India to misgovern herself.
Mahatma Gandhi
#32. (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
#33. The four absolutes we all have in our minds: love, justice, evil, and forgiveness.
Ravi Zacharias
#34. 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
#35. Today there seems to be only one absolute thing: relativism.
Joseph Goebbels
#36. 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
#37. Doing the right thing at all costs is an absolute, and only a sith deals in absolutes.
Dave Filoni
#38. Science doesn't purvey absolute truth. Science is a mechanism ... for testing your thoughts against the universe.
Isaac Asimov
#39. I trust that absolutes have gradations.
Jane Austen
#40. Despite what they tell you, there are simply no moral absolutes in a complex world.
Berkeley Breathed
#41. There is no pleasing New Englanders, my dear, their soil is all rocks and their hearts are bloodless absolutes.
John Updike
#42. It is not that there are no certainties, it is that it is an absolute certainty that there are no certainties.
Christopher Hitchens
#43. The only absolute truth is that there are no absolute truths.
Paul Feyerabend
#44. The world is not that black and white, Rachel. There are no moral absolutes. It is complex.
Emily Giffin
#45. 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
#46. The victory over Euclidean space was not achieved by isolated individuals, but by a field of young rebels opposed to all absolutes.
Marshall McLuhan
#47. It is not for man to rest in absolute contentment.
Robert Southey
#49. It is undoubtedly easier to believe in absolutes, follow blindly, mouth received wisdom. But that is self-betrayal.
John Ralston Saul
#50. 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
#51. Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.
Novalis
#52. There is no conflict in the absolute universe, but there is conflict in the relative world.
Koichi Tohei
#53. Only through absolute loyalty to each other can the few control the many.
Peter J. Carroll
#54. 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
#55. God is not an optional extra, He's an absolute must!
C.S. Lewis
#56. It almost always happens that true, but exaggerated, coloring is more agreeable than absolute coloring.
Michel Eugene Chevreul
#57. There always exists an absolute norm to be preserved
Pope Pius XII
#58. Stupidity would not be absolute stupidity did it not fear intelligence.
Nicolas Chamfort
#59. Effort is the key in the relative; effortlessness is the key to the Absolute.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
#60. 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
#61. 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
#62. The Absolute God of the universe, the creator, preserver, and destroyer of the universe, is impersonal principle.
Swami Vivekananda
#63. When absolutes are abandoned for principles, the U.S. Constitution becomes a blank slate for anyone's graffiti.
Wayne LaPierre
#64. 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
#65. Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.
Pope John Paul II
#67. Most people believe you have to have some moral absolutes if you want to hold back chaos.
Peter Kreeft
#68. It is an absolute perfection ... to get the very most out of one's individuality.
Michel De Montaigne
#69. 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
#70. The only absolute attainment is absolute abandonment.
Gore Vidal
#71. 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
#72. 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
