Absolute Quotes

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I AM IGNORANT of absolute truth. But I am humble before my ignorance and therein lies my honor and my reward. — Khalil Gibran
What good does it do me, after all, if an ever-watchful authority keeps an eye out to ensure that my pleasures will be tranquil and… — Alexis de Tocqueville
If you are very lucky, you're allowed to be in certain places during just the right season of your life: by the sea for the… — Jonathan Carroll
Man is manifestly not the measure of all things. This universe is shot through with mystery. The very fact of its being, and of our… — Sam Harris
Mother, who has an absolute belief that it is not the cards that one is dealt in life, it is how one plays them, is,… — Kay Redfield Jamison
Let a crown be placed thereon, by which the world may know, that so far as we approve of monarcy, that in America the law… — Thomas Paine
Miss Wormwood: Calvin, your test was an absolute disgrace! It's obvious you haven't read any of the material. Our first president was not Chef Boy-Ar-Dee… — Bill Watterson
War is an absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political. That a war can be represented as helping a people to 'feel good' about themselves,… — Adrienne Rich
I started my life with a single absolute: that the world was mine to shape in the image of my highest values and never to… — Ayn Rand
An absolute monarchy is one in which the sovereign does as he pleases so long as he pleases the assassins. — Ambrose Bierce
How happy is the little stone That rambles in the road alone, And doesn't care about careers, And exigencies never fears; Whose coat of elemental… — Emily Dickinson
And it came to me then. That we were wonderful traveling companions but in the end no more than lonely lumps of metal in their… — Haruki Murakami
R is a velocity of measure, defined as a reasonable speed of travel that is consistent with health, mental well-being, and not being more than,… — Douglas Adams
A man goes to knowledge as he goes to war: wide-awake, with fear, with respect, and with absolute assurance. Going to knowledge or going to… — Carlos Castaneda
The enemy of the moment always represented absolute evil, and it followed that any past or future agreement with him was impossible. — George Orwell
When we both experienced the love that consumes, we shared in the Absolute. The Absolute shows each of us who we really are; it is… — Paulo Coelho
When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty… — Henry David Thoreau
If our testimonies are strong onthis point and if we feel the absolute assurance that God loves us, we will change our questons. We won't… — John Bytheway
This is the most important thing I will ever say to you. The human mind is the ultimate testing device. You can take all the… — Lois McMaster Bujold
Often we ask ourselves to make absolute sense out of what just happens, and in this way, what we are practicing is suffering, which everybody… — Tony Hoagland

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