Relative Quotes

Relative Quote of the day

Each generation must discover its mission, fulfill it or betray it, in relative opacity.

The only thing of which one can be guilty is of having given ground relative to one's desire.

Everything is relative; and only that is absolute.

Dare to believe in the reality of your assumption and watch the world play its part relative to to its fulfillment.

Personally, I don't like the term 'success.' It's too arbitrary and too relative a thing. It's usually someone else's definition, not yours.

A writer who says that there are no truths, or that all truth is ‘merely relative,’ is asking you not to believe him. So don’t.

The Infinite has to be a relative concept. Go any distance: an infinite space means that there is more to be explored.

As countries embrace mass higher education, the cost of maintaining universities increases dramatically relative to an elite system.

Basic philosophy, spirit and drive of an organization have far more to do with its relative achievements than do technological or economic resources, organizational structure, innovation and timing.

Acquiring a dog may be the only opportunity a human ever has to choose a relative.

A system of morality that is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception that has nothing sound in it and nothing true.

The bookis a distant relative of the truth, and the film is a distant relative of the book.

I learned that danger is relative, and the inexperience can be a magnifying glass.

Young players calculate everything, a requirement of their relative inexperience.

We never really perceive what color really is, as it physically is. This fact makes color the most relative medium in art.

Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a wife in misfortune.

Success is relative. It is what we make of the mess we have made of things.

Chronic disease like a troublesome relative is something you can learn to manage but never quite escape.

Insanity is relative. Who sets the norm?

Readiness is a student’s entry point relative to a particular understanding or skill.

The horse is so honest.... they live in the moment. And what they do, whether they need to protect themselves or whether they need to accept you really is directly relative to how you make them feel.

We have to compete within ourselves relative to the determination it takes to be successful.

If human values were relative, all laws-whether those based on revealed religions or those devised by man-would become meaningless.

Evil exists to glorify the good. Evil is negative good. It is a relative term. Evil can be transmuted into good. What is evil to one at one time, becomes good at another time to somebody else.

States care about relative wealth, because economic might is the foundation of military might.

You only understand information relative to what you already understand.

Humanists hold that ethical values are relative to human experience and need not be derived from theological or metaphysical foundations.

Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it.

Those who have no absolute values cannot let the relative remain merely relative; they are always raising it to the level of the absolute.

You will never win if you don't deal with your work ethically. All that you need to do is to stick to your principles; morals are relative.

Religions have depended on the relative isolation and ignorance of their flocks, forever and this is all breaking down.

Be able to cite three good qualities of every relative or acquaintance that you dislike.

In my world, everything is possible and everything is relative.

The idea of 'machine assemblage' is, especially, very alien to my sensibility, since it suggests a relative indifference of the strata to one another during the process of construction.

People who are rich want to be richer, but what's the difference? The toys get different, that's all. The rich guys buy a football team, the poor guys buy a football. It's all relative.

The truth is an arbitrary, shifting, culturally relative, and historically molded phenomenon.

Any ideas of “other” are complicated, and otherness is relative to personal ideas of “normal.”

Money, big money (which is actually a relative concept) is always, under any circumstances, a seduction, a test of morals, a temptation to sin.

Every psychological event depends upon the state of the person and at the same time on the environment, although their relative importance is different in different cases

Success is a relative quotient, and fame can be ephemeral. An Oscar is something that becomes a part of your record, a tangible acknowledgement that your efforts have made a difference.

Wealth after all is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much and wants more.

There is no conflict in the absolute universe, but there is conflict in the relative world.

If you can see the terrorists as a relative who's dangerously sick and we have to give them medicine and the medicine is love and compassion. There's nothing better.

Virtue is relative to the actions and ages of each of us in all that we do.

The best parts about writing a show are [its] first, second and 10th anniversaries. Everything else is relative levels of hell.

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.

It is only through contact and comparison that the relative value or worthlessness of the various cultural elements can be clearly and critically seen and understood.

Multiculturalism is a good reminder that when standards are relative, there are no standards at all.

There is one thing a professor can be absolutely certain of: almost every student entering the university believes, or says he believes, that truth is relative.

Have the conviction that God is your only real relative and friend.