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"The humorous man recognizes that absolute purity, absolute justice, absolute logic and perfection are beyond human achievement and that men have been able to live happily for thousands of years in a state of genial frailty." »Brooks Atkinson
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"Machines take me by surprise with great frequency." »Alan Turing
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"If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?" »Harry Shearer
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"If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure" »Nicolas Boileau
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"absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power." »Eric Hoffer
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"For a smart material to be able to send out a more complex signal it needs to be nonlinear. If you hit a tuning fork twice as hard it will ring twice as loud but still at the same frequency. That's a linear response. If you hit a person twice as hard they're unlikely just to shout twice as loud. That property lets you learn more about the person than the tuning fork." »Neil Gershenfeld
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"Numerous politicians have seized absolute power and muzzled the press. Never in history has the press seized absolute power and muzzled the politicians." »David Brinkley
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"Is there anyone that knows the absolute truth?" »Sorin Cerin
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"Art lives where absolute freedom is because when it is not, there can be no creativity." »Bruce Lee
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"There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths." »Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
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"There can be no justice so long as rules are absolute." »Patrick Stewart
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"The absolute good is not a matter of opinion but of nature." »Cicero
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"The absolute truth is one for an infinity of possible relative truths which lie." »Sorin Cerin
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"Who can say what love at the feet of the absolute truth means?" »Sorin Cerin
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"But no perfection is so absolute, That some impurity doth not pollute." »William Shakespeare, The Rape of Lucrece Ver. 124
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"My business is not to remake myself, But make the absolute best of what God made." »Robert Browning
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"My business is not to remake myself, but to make the absolute best of what God made." »Robert Browning
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"Only one absolute certainty is possible to man, namely that at any given moment the feeling which he has exists." »Thomas Huxley
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"Real seriousness in regard to writing is one of two absolute necessities. The other, unfortunately, is talent." »Ernest Hemingway
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"Nor need we be surprised that men so often embrace almost any doctrines, if they are proclaimed with a voice of absolute assurance." »Judge Learned Hand, Address "A Fanfare for Prometheus", January 29,1955
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"Our entire life worth's less than one moment of the absolute's truth vanity." »Sorin Cerin
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"Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority." »Thomas Huxley
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"Of all tyrannies democracy is the most agonizing, the most inane, the absolute fall of everything great and elevated." »Søren Kierkegaard, Journal 1848
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"The truth can only be absolute as any relativity may include the untruth towards the system of reference where it varies." »Sorin Cerin
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"Cruel persecution and intolerance are not accidents, but grow out of the very essense of religion, namely, its absolute claims." »Morris Raphael Cohen
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"The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise." »George Santayana
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"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
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"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
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"I would die happy if I knew that on my tombstone could be written these words, This man was an absolute fool. None of the disastrous things that he reluctantly predicted ever came to pass" »Lewis Mumford
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"All confidence which is not absolute and entire, is dangerous. There are few occasions but where a man ought either to say all, or conceal all; for, how little so ever you have revealed of your secret to a friend, you have already said too much if you think it not safe to make him privy to all particulars." »Francis Beaumont
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