Absolute Quotes

Absolute freedom is absolute nonsense! We gain freedom in anything through commitment, discipline, and fixed habit.

Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.

If absolute truth belongs to anyone in this world, it certainly does not belong to the man or party that claims to possess it.

Nothing else wounds so deeply and irreparably. Nothing else robs us of hope so much as being unloved by one we love

Master of the universe but not of myself, I am the only rebel against my absolute power.

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

Nature brings us back to absolute truth whenever we wander.

We can never achieve absolute truth but we can live hopefully by a system of calculated probabilities.

I think there's some connection between absolute discipline and absolute freedom.

A nation of slaves is always prepared to applaud the clemency of their master who, in the abuse of absolute power, does not proceed to the last extremes of injustice and oppression.

My holy of holies is the human body, health, intelligence, talent, inspiration, love, and absolute freedom--freedom from violence and falsehood, no matter how the last two manifest themselves.

Absolute certainty is a privilege of uneducated minds and fanatics. - It is, for scientific folk, an unattainable ideal.

The family code in Egypt is one of the worst family codes in the Arab world. Polygamy. The husband is having absolute power over the family.

Power kills, absolute power kills absolutely.

I knew I could hold myself with that absolute love and compassion.

Well, I have an interest in power. I have an interest in people who find themselves in the position to exercise absolute power

Absolute certainty will always elude us. We will always be mired in error. The most each generation can hope for is to reduce the error. . . .

Absolute power corrupts absolutely; and if you surrender your personal responsibility to a government which promises to take care of you, they will only take care of themselves.

God is the absolute truth...

I will spark a generation of thinkers who will question traditional thought until they find the absolute truth.

The absolute truth cannot be realized within the domain of the ordinary mind, and the path beyond the ordinary mind is the path of the heart.

No human being, man, woman, or child, may safely be entrusted to the power of another; for no human being may safely be trusted with absolute power.

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

It has been said that absolute power corrupts absolutely, but many it not be truer to say that to be absolutely powerful a man must first corrupt himself?

Absolute power turns its possessors not into a God but an anti-God. For God turned clay into men, while the absolute despot turns men into clay.

Powerlessness corrupts: absolute powerlessness corrupts absolutely.

There is no truth in photography. One can't reproduce an absolute truth. That said, I don't see [my photographs] as being any less truthful than any other photographs.

Tyranny is like the electric wiring in an old house. A tyrant dies, the new tyrant takes possession, and all he has to do is drop the switch.

The Absolute Truth can be perceived by a repentant heart.

we are, in this country, more open to new ideas. But we are also, it seems to me, more inclined to hail the new as absolute truth - until the next new comes along.

Nobody in this world possesses absolute truth.

Science makes no pretension to eternal truth or absolute truth.

Absolute power demoralizes.

There can be no absolute reality, there can be no absolute truth.

Absolute freedom mocks at justice. Absolute justice denies freedom.

Absolute truth is not dependent upon public opinion or popularity. Now what is this truth? It is His gospel. It is the gospel of Jesus Christ.

To assume all the powers is not good for anybody. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. All those experiments have a bad ending.

The taint inherent in absolute power is not its inhumanity but its antihumanity.

Sport was my absolute love. It was very sporty household. We had my - my brother and I both loved sports.

[H]e that thinks absolute power purifies men's blood, and corrects the baseness of human nature, need read the history of this, or any other age, to be convinced to the contrary.

Men and governments must act to the best of their ability. There is no such thing as absolute certainty but there is assurance sufficient for the purposes of human life.

The entire history of mankind is, in any case, nothing but a prolonged fight to the death for the conquest of universal prestige and absolute power.

Freedom comes from strength and self-reliance

Do not be idolatrous about or bound to any doctrine, theory, or ideology, even Buddhist ones. All systems of thought are guiding means; they are not absolute truth.

People say I'm a nice girl saying terrible things. I tend to say the opposite of what I think. You hope that the absolute power of that transcends, and reaches the audience.

We don't regard any scientific theory as the absolute truth

“Et Tu, Babe” was born out of my absolute certainty that a writer’s life was solitary and insular, and I was happy with that. I love reading and writing, it’s my whole life.

It is reasonable to love the Absolute absolutely for the same reason it is reasonable to love the relative relatively.

Science doesn't purvey absolute truth. Science is a mechanism... for testing your thoughts against the universe.

Let him leave the imperial court, who wishes to be virtuous. Virtue and absolute power cannot coexist.