Relative Quotes

551 Relative quotes by 470 unique authors

Of course I am frustrated with regard to extreme poverty, to violence that never seems to cease. Greed is the key. It's easy to sit… — Roger Moore
There is no greater bugbear than a strong willed relative in the circle of his own connections. — Nathaniel Hawthorne
A life lesson for me is, how do you muster the courage to take on a new risk? Whether it's starting up a business or… — Anne Bancroft
Nowadays the world is becoming increasingly materialistic, and mankind is reaching toward the very zenith of external progress, driven by an insatiable desire for power… — Dalai Lama
We possess within us a force of incalculable power, which if we direct it in a conscious and wise manner, gives us the mastery of… — Emile Coue
The significance of a fact is relative to [the general body of scientific] knowledge. To say that a fact is significant in science, is to… — Bertrand Russell
The Art of Success . . . Success is ninety-nine percent mental attitude. It calls for love, joy, optimism, confidence, serenity, poise, faith, courage, cheerfulness,… — Wilferd Peterson
We never really perceive what color really is, as it physically is. This fact makes color the most relative medium in art. — Josef Albers
Absolute, true, and mathematical time, in and of itself and of its own nature, without reference to anything external, flows uniformly and by another name… — Isaac Newton
The whole visible universe is but a storehouse of images and signs to which the imagination will give a relative place and value; it is… — Charles Baudelaire
The hostility perpetually exercised between one man and another, is caused by the desire of many for that which only few can possess. Every man… — Samuel Johnson
He rules all things, not as the world soul but as the lord of all. And because of his dominion he is called Lord God… — Isaac Newton
The classification of facts, the recognition of their sequence and relative significance is the function of science, and the habit of forming a judgment upon… — Karl Pearson
We may affirm of Mr. Buffon, that which has been said of the chemists of old; though he may have failed in attaining his principal… — Oliver Goldsmith
Seen in retrospect, evolution as a whole doubtless had a general direction, from simple to complex, from dependence on to relative independence of the environment,… — Theodosius Dobzhansky
The English language has about 450,000 commonly used words, but more may be needed. What to you call someone who has lost a sibling or… — Jeffrey Zaslow
Poverty is such a relative thing; but no man is really poor till life becomes a desert island that gives him neither food nor shelter… — Unknown Author
It appears that all that can be, is. The Creator's hand does not appear to have been opened in order to give existence to a… — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
He [Jesus] came to save all through himself; all, I say, who through him are reborn in God: infants, and children, and youths, and old… — Irenaeus of Lyons
The word 'chance' then expresses only our ignorance of the causes of the phenomena that we observe to occur and to succeed one another in… — Pierre-Simon Laplace
It may seem rash indeed to draw conclusions valid for the whole universe from what we can see from the small corner to which we… — Emile Borel
Men are noisy, narrow-band devices, but their nervous systems have very many parallel and simultaneously active channels. Relative to men, computing machines are very fast… — J. C. R. Licklider
Without any doubt, the regularity which astronomy shows us in the movements of the comets takes place in all phenomena. The trajectory of a simple… — Pierre-Simon Laplace
With crystals we are in a situation similar to an attempt to investigate an optical grating merely from the spectra it produces... But a knowledge… — Max von Laue
The fascination of any search after truth lies not in the attainment, which at best is found to be very relative, but in the pursuit,… — Unknown Author

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