Absolute Quotes

Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Good, Shallow, Ill

Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way - everything is interdependent, not absolute.
Dalai Lama

Reality, Everything, Appearance

I began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.
Fidel Castro

Faith, Men, Revolution

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

Truth, Words, Another

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

Facts, Eternal, Truths

If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.
Hunter S. Thompson

Truth, Today, Past

To be a successful father... there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't look at it for the first two years.
Ernest Hemingway

Successful, Father, Two

We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Security, Ourselves, Search

Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Change, Jealousy, Passion

Our heavenly Father understands our disappointment, suffering, pain, fear, and doubt. He is always there to encourage our hearts and help us understand that He's sufficient for all of our needs. When I accepted this as an absolute truth in my life, I found that my worrying stopped.
Charles Stanley

Life, Truth, Fear

I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect - in terror.
Edgar Allan Poe

Except, Danger, Effect

What I worry about would be that you essentially have two chambers, the House and the Senate, but you have simply, majoritarian, absolute power on either side. And that's just not what the founders intended.
Barack Obama

Power, Two, Worry

Dogmatism and skepticism are both, in a sense, absolute philosophies; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is certainty, whether of knowledge or ignorance.
Bertrand Russell

Knowledge, Ignorance, Philosophy

Every experience is a paradox in that it means to be absolute, and yet is relative; in that it somehow always goes beyond itself and yet never escapes itself.
T. S. Eliot

Experience, Means, Goes

Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Lord Acton

Power, Corrupts, Absolutely

Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Death, Sadness, Silence

Anyone who thinks that the vice-president can take a position independent of the president of his administration simply has no knowledge of politics or government. You are his choice in a political marriage, and he expects your absolute loyalty.
Hubert H. Humphrey

Marriage, Politics, Government

There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.
George Eliot

Great, Hope, Sorrow

Marriage has a unique place because it speaks of an absolute faithfulness, a covenant between radically different persons, male and female; and so it echoes the absolute covenant of God with his chosen, a covenant between radically different partners.
Rowan D. Williams

Marriage, God, Different

There is no absolute point of view from which real and ideal can be finally separated and labelled.
T. S. Eliot

Real, Point, View

Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual word, but every possible word, must conform.
Bertrand Russell

Word, Possible, Takes

Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Lord Acton

Power, Corrupt, Corrupts

We cannot possibly let ourselves get frozen into regarding everyone we do not know as an absolute stranger.
Albert Schweitzer

Cannot, Everyone, Ourselves

Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.
Thomas Huxley

Great, Knowledge, Rejection

It is in war that the State really comes into its own: swelling in power, in number, in pride, in absolute dominion over the economy and the society.
Murray Rothbard

Power, War, Society

At every crisis in one's life, it is absolute salvation to have some sympathetic friend to whom you can think aloud without restraint or misgiving.
Woodrow Wilson

Life, Crisis, Friend

Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.
Eric Hoffer

Power, True, Lie

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.
Simone de Beauvoir

Work, Men, Truth

There are no absolute rules of conduct, either in peace or war. Everything depends on circumstances.
Leon Trotsky

Peace, War, Everything

In the evening of life we shall be judged on love, and not one of us is going to come off very well, and were it not for my absolute faith in the loving forgiveness of my Lord I could not call on him to come.
Madeleine L'Engle

Life, Love, Faith

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