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Absolute truth belongs to Thee alone. -- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh. -- Carl Reiner
The only absolute truth is that there are no absolute truths. -- Paul Feyerabend
In seeking absolute truth we aim at the unattainable and must be content with broken portions. -- William Osler
The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truth. -- Charles Lamb
The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions. -- Sarah Bernhardt
The hack songwriter will write the absolute truth every single word, whether it makes a great song or not. -- Paul Westerberg
Only when we realize that there is no eternal, unchanging truth or absolute truth can we arouse in ourselves a sense of intellectual responsibility. -- Hu Shih
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
It is of no help to us that there is an absolute truth of the matter of things because unfortunately, none of us are in a position to say definitively what that is - although we all think that we are. -- Stanley Fish
Reality is, after all, too big for our frail understanding to fully comprehend. Nevertheless, we have to build our life on the theory which contains the maximum truth.We cannot sit still because we cannot, or do not , know the Absolute Truth. -- Subhas Chandra Bose
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
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
The Absolute Truth can be perceived by a repentant heart. -- Radhanath Swami
Nature brings us back to absolute truth whenever we wander. -- Louis Agassiz
Science makes no pretension to eternal truth or absolute truth. -- E. T. Bell
There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism. -- Hunter S. Thompson
I AM IGNORANT of absolute truth. But I am humble before my ignorance and therein lies my honor and my reward. -- Khalil Gibran
Prayer begins by talking to God, but it ends by listening to Him. In the face of Absolute Truth, silence is the soul's language. -- Fulton J. Sheen
It is the mark of the mind untrained to take its own processes as valid for all men, and its own judgments for absolute truth. -- Aleister Crowley
One's longing is not so much there for sense-gratification, profit and self-preservation, instead one's karma is there for no other purpose than inquiring after the Absolute Truth. -- Ramesh Menon
Nobody in this world possesses absolute truth. This is God's attribute alone. Relative truth is all we know. Therefore, we can only follow the truth as we see it. Such pursuit of truth cannot lead anyone astray. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Literature is where I go to explore the highest and lowest places in human society and in the human spirit, where I hope to find not absolute truth but the truth of the tale, of the imagination and of the heart. -- Salman Rushdie
Communication starts with the understanding that there is my point of view (my truth) and someone else's point of view (his truth). Rarely is there one absolute truth, so people who believe that they speak the truth are very silencing of others. -- Sheryl Sandberg
The bodily resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead is the crowning proof of Christianity. If the resurrection did not take place, then Christianity is a false religion. If it did take place, then Christ is God and the Christian faith is absolute truth. -- Henry M. Morris
It will never be possible by pure reason to arrive at some absolute truth. -- Werner Heisenberg
Truth is always unfolding. It's not an absolute. -- Alan Arkin
We don't regard any scientific theory as the absolute truth. -- Kenneth R. Miller
Science makes no pretension to eternal truth or absolute truth. -- E. T. Bell
The absolute truth is that there is no power in celebrity. -- Bill Cosby
Truth is absolute, truth is supreme, truth is never disposable in national political life. -- John Howard
We can never achieve absolute truth but we can live hopefully by a system of calculated probabilities. -- Agnes Meyer Driscoll
All we know of the truth is that the absolute truth, such as it is, is beyond our reach. -- Nicholas of Cusa
All that can be said with truth of this Absolute and Supreme Reality is that IT IS. This must suffice. -- Israel Regardie
Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
We want to assert the very principle that truth is absolute, truth is supreme, truth is never disposable in national political life. -- John Howard
You must have absolute faith in your own perceptions of truth. Never act in haste or hurry; be deliberated in everything; wait until you know the true way. -- Wallace D. Wattles
This is the absolute truth: and on this truth our tactics must be based. All tactics that are not based on this are false, and lead the proletariat to terrible defeat. -- Herman Gorter
It's terribly important that you can criticise people's ideas without criticising them, and if they burst into tears, it means that you tend to hold back from getting at the absolute truth. -- Tim Hunt
In our development, as we grow throughout our lives, the structure of our beliefs becomes very complicated, and we make it even more complicated because we make the assumption that what we believe is the absolute truth. -- Don Miguel Ruiz
Even if I stumble on to the absolute truth of any aspect of the universe, I will not realise my luck and instead will spend my life trying to find flaws in this understanding - such is the role of a scientist. -- Brian Schmidt
The crime of book purging is that it involves a rejection of the word. For the word is never absolute truth, but only man's frail and human effort to approach the truth. To reject the word is to reject the human search. -- Max Lerner
The Bible has been through millions of rounds of exegesis and interpretation, but it hasn't been until quite recently that it's been taken as the absolute truth, to the point where people expect it to inform ideas about biology and life on this planet. -- Walter Kirn
God is the absolute truth -- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
God alone knows absolute Truth. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Truth, like love, is never absolute. -- E. Lynn Harris
Nobody in this world possesses absolute truth. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Is there anyone that knows the absolute truth? -- Sorin Cerin
The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth. -- Anton Chekhov
In Buddhism we have relative truth and absolute truth -- Dalai Lama
If The Times said it, it was the absolute truth. -- Jill Abramson
We don't regard any scientific theory as the absolute truth -- Kenneth R. Miller
Feelings are not everything! There is very little absolute truth in life. -- Emily Saliers
There is no such thing as an absolute truth to be discovered. -- T. E. Hulme
There can be no absolute reality, there can be no absolute truth. -- Kevin Warwick
There is no such source of error as the pursuit of absolute truth. -- Samuel Butler
Our entire life worth's less than one moment of the absolute's truth vanity. -- Sorin Cerin
The absolute truth is one for an infinity of possible relative truths which lie. -- Sorin Cerin
Myth embodies the nearest approach to absolute truth that can be stated in words. -- Ananda Coomaraswamy
Most of the intellectual elite of the USA completely disavow the idea of absolute truth. -- Ravi Zacharias
Add a few drops of venom to a half truth and you have an absolute truth. -- Eric Hoffer
Science doesn't purvey absolute truth. Science is a mechanism... for testing your thoughts against the universe. -- Isaac Asimov
I believed in the faith of faith without acknowledging his quality of being an absolute truth. -- Sorin Cerin
The sole philosophy open to those who doubt the possibility of truth is absolute silence -- even mental. -- Jacques Maritain
The only "definitive truth" for Buddhism is the absolute negation of any one truth as the Definitive Truth. -- Dalai Lama
Art achieves all little things by absolute truth: but all her great things need some admixture of illusion. -- Richard B. Garnett
I WILL SPARK A GENERATION OF THINKERS WHO WILL QUESTION TRADITIONAL THOUGHT UNTIL THEY FIND THE ABSOLUTE TRUTH -- Kanye West
There is no permanent absolute unchangeable truth; what we should pursue is the most convenient arrangement of our ideas. -- Samuel Butler
Without the absolute truth, to know the truth value of our own existence is beyond our strengths/limits/possibilities. -- Sorin Cerin
By starting from the ground and tapping into the absolute, uncheatable truth of nature we can make ourselves better -- Monty Don
To say that death opposes life is just the same as you would say you live the absolute truth. -- Sorin Cerin
Once war becomes a clash of absolutes, there is no breathing room for mercy. Absolute truth is blind truth. -- Deepak Chopra
Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator. -- Wendell Phillips
Beautiful and fresh, Girl Saves Boy is full of the absolute truth-life is complicated. I could not put it down. -- Rebecca Stead
I AM IGNORANT of absolute truth. But I am humble before my ignorance and therein lies my honor and my reward. -- Khalil Gibran
In academic life you seek to state absolute truths; in politics you seek to accommodate truth to the facts around you. -- Pierre Trudeau
One sought not absolute truth. One sought only a spool on which to wind the thread of history without breaking it. -- Henry Adams
The truth can only be absolute as any relativity may include the untruth towards the system of reference where it varies. -- Sorin Cerin
In prayer the soul comes nearest the experience of absolute love: in belief it ascends by means of symbols towards absolute truth. -- Evelyn Underhill
All ego really is, is our opinions, which we take to be solid, real, and the absolute truth about how things are. -- Pema Chodron
How many truths pass wrecking through the Illusion of Life, but none of them is an absolute truth therefore the real truth! -- Sorin Cerin
Those philosophers who believe in the absolute logic of truth have never had to discuss it on close terms with a woman. -- Cesare Pavese
For five years it had been his absolute truth. Jem and Will. Will and Jem. Will Herondale lives, therefore Jem Carstairs lives also. -- Cassandra Clare
Human thought by its nature is capable of giving, and does give, absolute truth, which is compounded of a sum-total of relative truths. -- Vladimir Lenin
It should be remembered, as an axiom of eternal truth in politics, that whatever power in any government is independent, is absolute also. -- Thomas Jefferson
If absolute truth belongs to anyone in this world, it certainly does not belong to the man or party that claims to possess it. -- Albert Camus
In truth, the Library includes all verbal structures, all variations permitted by the twenty-five orthographical symbols, but not a single example of absolute nonsense. -- Jorge Luis Borges
Imagination, which in truth Is but another name for absolute power And clearest insight, amplitude of mind, And reason, in her most exalted mood. -- William Wordsworth
[T]hat is the triumph of history - truth absolute is not at hand; the original with which to match the copy does not exist. -- Jacques Barzun
Those who believe that they have absolute truth and the only moral system are destructive both to themselves and to those whom they try to convert. -- Luke Rhinehart
The State is the absolute reality and the individual himself has objective existence, truth and morality only in his capacity as a member of the State. -- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Today's devices blurt out the absolute truth as they know it. A smart device in the future might know when NOT to blurt out the truth. -- Genevieve Bell
Absolute truth is not dependent upon public opinion or popularity. Now what is this truth? It is His gospel. It is the gospel of Jesus Christ. -- Dieter F. Uchtdorf
The absolute truth cannot be realized within the domain of the ordinary mind, and the path beyond the ordinary mind is the path of the heart. -- Sogyal Rinpoche
A wise teacher is a keen and true student of absolute beauty and truth, and he searches everywhere for them in nature with all his heart -- Sadegh M. Angha
Science appears but what in truth she is, Not as our glory and our absolute boast, But as a succedaneum, and a prop To our infirmity. -- William Wordsworth
But the truth is, nothing delights me more than a biography of one of the truly great that proves he or she was an absolute shit. -- Mordecai Richler
The eye which can appreciate the naked and absolute beauty of a scientific truth is far more rare than that which is attracted by a moral one. -- Henry David Thoreau
Is it important to have an enlightened teacher? No. Yes. If you are an absolute beginner, it really doesn't matter that much, to tell you the truth. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Art could be said to be a symbol of the universe, being linked with that absolute spiritual truth which is hidden from us in our positivistic, pragmatic activities. -- Andrei Tarkovsky
Proverbs are the literature of reason, or the statements of absolute truth, without qualification. Like the sacred books of each nation, they are the sanctuary of its intuitions. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is no truth in photography. One can't reproduce an absolute truth. That said, I don't see [my photographs] as being any less truthful than any other photographs. -- Taryn Simon
Do not be idolatrous about or bound to any doctrine, theory, or ideology, even Buddhist ones. All systems of thought are guiding means; they are not absolute truth. -- Nhat Hanh
We have to awaken ourselves into that new awareness by which we can know the absolute truth and we can know that Divine power which is surrounding us. -- Nirmala Srivastava
Either faith in Christ can cleanse all people of their sin, or none, but not some... The truth of Christ's death, resurrection and power over sin is absolute. -- Rick Perry
We're not given the chance to choose absolute truth. Truth's always two-faced. The only thing we have is the right to reject the lie we find most repugnant. -- Sergei Lukyanenko
Madness is the absolute break with the work of art; it forms the constitutive moment of abolition, which dissolves in time the truth of the work of art." -- Michel Foucault
Madness is the absolute break with the work of art; it forms the constitutive moment of abolition, which dissolves in time the truth of the work of art. -- Michel Foucault
What is the meaning of Initiation? It is the Path to the realisation of your Self as the sole, the supreme, the absolute of all Truth, Beauty, Purity, Perfection! -- Aleister Crowley
Reality and truth are not products of rational or linear thinking. They are derived from absolute wisdom as it manifests itself spontaneously, coming from the light of the Spirit. -- Nirmala Srivastava
Many of our ideas and beliefs about ourselves and the world are so deeply ingrained that we are unaware that they are beliefs and take them, without question, for the absolute truth. -- Rupert Spira
Science does not promise absolute truth, nor does it consider that such a thing necessarily exists. Science does not even promise that everything in the Universe is amenable to the scientific process. -- Isaac Asimov
Truth is objective because God exists outside ourselves; it is universal because God is above all; it is constant because God is eternal. Absolute truth is absolute because it originates from the original. -- Josh McDowell
"but all day long I would be training myself to think, to understand, to criticize, to know myself; I was seeking for the absolute truth: this preoccupation did not exactly encourage polite conversation. -- Simone de Beauvoir
The absolute truth is that the 'I' is perfect and complete; the real 'I' is spiritual and can therefor never be less than perfect; it can never have any lack, limitation, or disease. -- Charles F. Haanel
I can't bring you absolute truth in the detailed factual sense. All I can do is bring you an interpretation as I understand it. That's all you can ever get from an actor. -- Colin Firth
I struggled in the beginning. I said I was going to write the truth, so help me God. And I thought I was. I found I couldn't. Nobody can write the absolute truth. -- Henry Miller
we are, in this country, more open to new ideas. But we are also, it seems to me, more inclined to hail the new as absolute truth - until the next new comes along. -- Paula Fox
The beginning of religion, more precisely its content, is the concept of religion itself, that God is the absolute truth, the truth of all things, and subjectively that religion alone is the absolutely true knoweldge. -- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

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