Absolute Quotes

Having a personal opinion is great.
Believing that one's personal opinion is absolute truth
leads to most of the world's troubles.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Good for who? Good for what?
There is no absolute "good."
"Good" is simply one person's preference.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Truth is absolute, but only to one person.
My truth is absolute to me, and your truth is absolute to you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

We cannot possibly let ourselves get frozen into regarding
everyone we do not know as an absolute stranger.
- Albert Schweitzer

Most everything in life is about our
point-of-view rather than any absolute.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I want for myself what I want for other women,
absolute equality.
- Agnes Macphail

There comes a pause, for human strength will not endure
to dance without cessation;
and everyone must reach the point at length of absolute prostration.
- Lewis Carroll

Shallow understanding from people of good will
is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding
from people of ill will.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Once you have seen the truth
you must make the decision to let go
of the pain, anger, and resentment you have been holding on to.
This requires you to take action.
If you are attached to your pain, resentment,
and self-righteousness, and addicted to your emotional reactions,
this will be a difficult step for you.
Taking action requires letting go of the very thing
you have been holding on to for so many years.
There is comfort in what we find familiar,
even if we are experiencing pain and suffering.
The pain and suffering itself becomes the familiarity we seek.
It takes absolute faith in yourself
plus courage, will, and discipline to let go.
But once you let go, it will be as if
the weight of the world has been taken off your shoulders.
In this process it is important to forgive
not just the others in our lives, but also ourselves.
For most people, giving ourselves
the gift of forgiveness is very challenging.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Those who desire to rise as high as our human condition allows,
must renounce intellectual pride, the omnipotence of clear thinking,
belief in the absolute power of logic.
- Alexis Carrel

Every experience is a paradox in that it means to be absolute,
and yet is relative; in that it somehow always goes
beyond itself and yet never escapes itself.
- T. S. Eliot

All the great things of humanity have been accomplished
in the name of absolute principles.
- Ernest Renan

I love things that age well - things that don't date,
that stand the test of time and that become living
examples of the absolute best.
- Giorgio Armani

The novel is the highest form of human expression so far attained.
Why? Because it is so incapable of the absolute.
- David Herbert Lawrence

The sword is the axis of the world and its power is absolute.
- Charles de Gaulle

Reading - the best state yet to keep absolute loneliness at bay.
- William Styron

Science makes no pretension to eternal truth or absolute truth.
- E. T. Bell

In rock stardom there's an absolute economic upside to self-destruction.
- Courtney Love

In seeking absolute truth we aim at the unattainable
and must be content with broken portions.
- William Osler

We are now physically, politically, and economically
one world and nations so interdependent that the absolute
national sovereignty of nations is no longer possible.
- John Boyd Orr

God cannot approve of a system of servitude,
in which the master is guilty of assuming absolute power -
of assuming God's place and relation towards his fellow-men.
- Gerrit Smith

The absolute pacifist is a bad citizen;
times come when force must be used to uphold right,
justice and ideals.
- Alfred North Whitehead

When the human mind exists in the light of reason and no more than reason,
we may say with absolute certainty that Man and all
that made him will be in that instant gone.
- Loren Eiseley

The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh.
- Carl Reiner

I think most of the art now is involved with a denial
of any kind of absolute morality,
or general morality.
- Donald Judd

So long as the New Testament served to decipher the Old,
it was taken as an absolute norm.
- Paul Ricoeur

I'm in an absolute frenzy towards doing as many things
as I can that I want to do today.
The rest can wait till tomorrow, next week,
if I'm around we'll take a look.
- Buck Owens

Thus, the poet's word is beginning to strike forcefully
upon the hearts of all men,
while absolute men of letters think that they alone live in the real world.
- Salvatore Quasimodo

I do not want to be the angel of any home:
I want for myself what I want for other women,
absolute equality.
After that is secured, then men and women can take turns being angels.
- Agnes Macphail

A multi-purpose stadium is an absolute must in order
to invigorate our downtown and,
simultaneously, let the rest of the country witness
that we can get things done.
- Alan Autry

My dream of politics all my life has been that it is the common business,
that it is something we owe to each other to understand
and discuss with absolute frankness.
- Woodrow Wilson

In passing, we should note this curious mark of our own age:
the only absolute allowed is the absolute insistence
that there is no absolute.
- Francis Schaeffer

We will bankrupt ourselves in
the vain search for absolute security.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

Death is an absolute mystery.
We are all vulnerable to it, it's what makes life interesting and suspenseful.
- Jeanne Moreau

This overcoming of all the usual barriers
between the individual and the Absolute
is the great mystic achievement.
In mystic states we both become one with the Absolute
and we become aware of our oneness.
This is the everlasting and triumphant mystical tradition,
hardly altered by differences of clime or creed.
- William James

Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism,
selfishness, evil - or else an absolute ignorance.
- Graham Greene

Yeah, I think it's an absolute disaster that Australia,
the government, allowed kangaroo culling.
- Steve Irwin

Privacy is not something that I'm merely entitled to,
it's an absolute prerequisite.
- Marlon Brando

To keep that absolute freedom we cannot be obliged to anyone.
- Christo

It is in war that the State really comes into its own:
swelling in power,
in number, in pride, in absolute dominion over the economy and the society.
- Murray Rothbard

There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty.
That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.
- John Kenneth Galbraith

Absolute identity with one's cause is the first and
great condition of successful leadership.
- Woodrow Wilson

No one could have less faith in the absolute and definitive
importance of the work created by man,
because I believe that this world is nothing but a dream.
- Gustave Moreau

Cruel persecutions and intolerance are not accidents,
but grow out of the very essence of religion,
namely, its absolute claims.
- Morris Raphael Cohen

The failure in Ohio to have adequate voting capacity
for the people who were registered and eligible to
vote was an absolute denial of their right to vote.
- Carol Moseley Braun

There are writers in Germany who drink the Absolute like water;
and there are books in which even the dogs make references to the Infinite.
- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

I think we need to think beyond the issue of absolute risk.
- Alastair Wood

I'm a Utilitarian, so I don't see the rule against lying as absolute;
it's always subject to some overriding utility which
may prevent its exercise.
- Peter Singer

At every crisis in one's life, it is absolute salvation
to have some sympathetic friend to whom you can think
aloud without restraint or misgiving.
- Woodrow Wilson

I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.
- J. D. Salinger

No sex, age, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty;
but without it one vastly beneath the rank of man.
- Bruce Barton

In S Club I played a role in a band,
but now I can go off and be me -
My horizon's wide open now.
It's scary and it's daunting, but it's an absolute thrill.
I feel brand new!
- Rachel Stevens

These measures may not constitute an absolute guarantee of peace,
but, in my opinion, they constitute the greatest preventive
measures ever adopted by nations.
- Frank B. Kellogg

For the Absolute, as we now know, all life is individual,
but is individual as expressing a meaning.
- Josiah Royce

Prince Charles is an absolute Mountbatten.
The real intelligence in the royal family comes through
my parents to Prince Philip and the children.
- Lord Mountbatten

It is my absolute intent to hold the line on taxes.
- Jon Corzine

Whether gods exist or not, there is no way to get absolute certainty about ethics.
Without absolute certainty, what do we do? We do the best we can.
- Richard Stallman

An absolute can only be given in an intuition,
while all the rest has to do with analysis.
- Henri Bergson

No age, sex, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty;
but without it one is vastly beneath the rank of man.
- Bernard Barton

One of the absolute rules I learned in the war was,
don't know anything you don't need to know,
because if you ever get caught they will get it out of you.
- Abraham Pais

The hack songwriter will write the absolute truth every single word,
whether it makes a great song or not.
- Paul Westerberg

There is no such thing as absolute value in this world.
You can only estimate what a thing is worth to you.
- Charles Dudley Warner

To be a successful father...
there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid,
don't look at it for the first two years.
- Ernest Hemingway

Absolute truth belongs to Thee alone.
- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
- Lord Acton

Absolute 80's is three hours of mainstream 80's music.
I also do New Wave Nation that is more cutting edge.
It is more punk stuff from the 70's to the 90's.
- Nina Blackwood

Only when we realize that there is no eternal,
unchanging truth or absolute truth can we arouse in
ourselves a sense of intellectual responsibility.
- Hu Shih

We get done with the game, and it's an absolute downpour 30 minutes later.
That's when I thought God was telling me that's enough-time
for you to go do something else.
- John Elway

A wise parent humors the desire for independent action,
so as to become the friend and advisor when his absolute rule shall cease.
- Elizabeth Gaskell

All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
- Edmund Wilson

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
- John Acton

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