Absolute Quotes

Absolute Quote of the day

Prayer begins by talking to God, but it ends by listening to Him. In the face of Absolute Truth, silence is the soul's language.

An individual should not have too much freedom. A nation should have absolute freedom.

Anarchy is the stepping stone to absolute power.

I never imagined it wouldn't work out for me. I had that absolute certainty in myself that has seen me through, I think, and my parents were absolutely behind me all the way.

Only one absolute certainty is possible to man, namely that at any given moment the feeling which he has exists.

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.

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.

Federalism is the best curb on democracy. [It] assigns limited powers to the central government. Thereby all power is limited. It excludes absolute power of the majority.

Nothing can trouble you but your own imagination.

Many of our ideas and beliefs about ourselves and the world are so deeply ingrained that we are unaware that they are beliefs and take them, without question, for the absolute truth.

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?

There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.

If we do everything right, if we do it with absolute certainty, there's still a 30% chance we're going to get it wrong.

The Book of Job is advice on how to live in terms of the absolute power of nature. Leviathan is advice on how to live in terms of the absolute power of the state.

Absolute freedom of the press to discuss public questions is a foundation stone of American liberty.

I am one of a rare breed of true politicians who definitely say what they may or may not mean with absolute certainty.

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

It is the mark of the mind untrained to take its own processes as valid for all men, and its own judgments for absolute truth.

There will never be beings unloved by God, since God is absolute love.

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, where does that leave God??

Numerous politicians have seized absolute power and muzzled the press. Never in history has the press seized absolute power and muzzled the politicians.

As a scientist, I don't believe anything. Science shouldn't use the word belief. There are things more likely and less likely. Science can say nothing with absolute certainty.

All we know of the truth is that the absolute truth, such as it is, is beyond our reach.

The assumption of an absolute determinism is the essential foundation of every scientific enquiry.

Excuse my absolute freedom. I refuse to make a distinction between any of the moments of myself.

True and absolute freedom is only found in the presence of God.

If there was absolute freedom, people would run over babies and charge admission.

It is far better to foresee even without certainty than not to foresee at all.

Scientific knowledge is a body of statements of varying degrees of certainty -- some most unsure, some nearly sure, none absolutely certain.

It will never be possible by pure reason to arrive at some absolute truth.

Myth embodies the nearest approach to absolute truth that can be stated in words.

Truth is absolute, truth is supreme, truth is never disposable in national political life.

King has absolute power. And what he has given he can taken away.

Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth.

Art lives where absolute freedom is, because where it is not, there can be no creativity.

What is freedom? There is no such thing as absolute freedom!

Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.

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

For five years it had been his absolute truth. Jem and Will. Will and Jem. Will Herondale lives, therefore Jem Carstairs lives also.

Absolute freedom is absolute responsibility.

If you can't trust a Methodist with absolute power to arrest people and not have to say why, then whom can you trust?

The absolute truth is that the 'I' is perfect and complete; the real 'I' is spiritual and can therefor never be less than perfect; it can never have any lack, limitation, or disease.

All silencing of discussion is an assumption of infallibility.

Add a few drops of venom to a half truth and you have an absolute truth.

Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.

Absolute power can only be supported by error, ignorance and prejudice.

I'm through with Tolstoy. He has ceased to exist for me.... If I eat a bowl of soup and like it, I know by that fact alone and with absolute certainty that Tolstoy will find it bad, and vice versa.

When one reaches absolute power, one loses total contact with reality.

In prayer the soul comes nearest the experience of absolute love: in belief it ascends by means of symbols towards absolute truth.

People always tell me with absolute certainty that they don't trust themselves.