Best Absolutes Quotes
71 Absolutes quotes by 65 unique authors
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On the philosophical level, both Buddhism and modern science share a deep suspicion of any notion of absolutes, whether conceptualize as a transcendent being, as…
— Dalai Lama
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There's no absolutes in life - only vodka.
— Mick Jagger
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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…
— Bill Cosby
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In this unbelievable universe in which we live, there are no absolutes. Even parallel lines, reaching into infinity, meet somewhere yonder.
— Pearl S. Buck
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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…
— Ravi Zacharias
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It takes a very strong brain to resist the absolutes, the myths that the media and the politicians peddle - the idea that if you…
— Peter Mullan
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I am not sure whether ethical absolutes exist. But I am sure that we have to act as if they existed or civilization perishes.
— Arthur Koestler
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I don't really think in absolutes.
— Will Ferrell
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The man who sees absolutes, where all other men see nuances and shades of meaning, is either a prophet, or a quack.
— Keith Olbermann
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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…
— Duff Goldman
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It is undoubtedly easier to believe in absolutes, follow blindly, mouth received wisdom. But that is self-betrayal.
— John Ralston Saul
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The spectral density of black body radiation ... represents something absolute, and since the search for the absolutes has always appeared to me to be…
— Max Planck
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I would rather have strong enemies than a world of passive individualists. In a world of passive individualists nothing seems worth anything simply because nobody…
— Criss Jami
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Beware of absolutes. There are many gods.
— D. H. Lawrence
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Before I met Ayn Rand, I was a logical positivist, and accordingly, I didn't believe in absolutes, moral or otherwise. If I couldn't prove a…
— Alan Greenspan
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What makes spinal-cord injuries as devastating as they are is that everything about them plays out in absolutes: they are instantaneous, utterly disabling and horribly…
— Jeffrey Kluger
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Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.
— Pope John Paul II
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Never accept ultimatums, conventional wisdom, or absolutes.
— Christopher Reeve
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There is no pleasing New Englanders, my dear, their soil is all rocks and their hearts are bloodless absolutes.
— John Updike
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A mature person is one who does not think only in absolutes, who is able to be objective even when deeply stirred emotionally, who has…
— Eleanor Roosevelt
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Once war becomes a clash of absolutes, there is no breathing room for mercy. Absolute truth is blind truth.
— Deepak Chopra
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But there are no absolutes in human misery and things can always get worse
— Cormac McCarthy
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I began dividing life in absolutes... Things and people were either perfectly bad, or perfectly good, and when life didn't obey this black-and-white rule, when…
— J. R. Moehringer
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A novel is not moral in the usual sense of the word. It can be called moral when it shakes us out of our stupor…
— Azar Nafisi
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There’s no such thing as winning or losing. There is won and there is lost, there is victory and defeat. There are absolutes. Everything in…
— Derek Landy
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