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

When suave politeness, tempering bigot zeal, Corrected I believe to One does feel. (Absolute and Abitofhell)
View quotes by Ronald Knox

But when you look at the rubbish who are getting these awards and the absolute non-service they have given to the nation other than financing or working for political parties, you say, 'What company am I in?'
View quotes by Michael Winner

Art is an absolute mistress; she will not be coquetted with or slighted; she requires the most entire self-devotion, and she repays with grand triumphs.
View quotes by Cyril Connolly

The feeling in the dressing room after Saturday's defeat to Wales was one of absolute shock. We were all stunned by what had happened.
View quotes by Andy Gomarsall

The second half was easy to sum up - an absolute shambles. Communication, organisation and man-marking was nil [on England losing to Denmark 4 - 1 in 2005!]
View quotes by Alan Hansen

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!'
View quotes by Lewis Mumford

The universal medicine for the Soul is the Supreme Reason and Absolute Justice; for the mind, mathematical and practical Truth; for the body, the Quintessence, a combination of light and gold.
View quotes by Albert Pike

A few weeks will probably determine our fate. Perfect freedom, or Absolute Slavery. To some of us freedom or a halter.
View quotes by Abraham Clark

The goddess of sport is not Beauty but Victory, a jealous goddess who demands an absolute homage.
View quotes by R K Elliott

Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.
View quotes by Henry Adams

Hansel and Gretel and Dizzy's double hundred - they're one and the same. An absolute fairytale. [on getting a double century in a test match]
View quotes by Jason Gillespie

What may seem depressing or even tragic to one person may seem like an absolute scream to another person, especially if he has had between four and seven beers.

View quotes by Dave Barry

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely
View quotes by Lord Acton

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
View quotes by John Lehman

I am amazed at radio DJ's today. I am firmly convinced that AM on my radio stands for Absolute Moron. I will not begin to tell you what FM stands for.
View quotes by Jasper Carrott

I want to reach absolute perfection. And I think I can reach it.
View quotes by Steffi Graf

Everything you've learned in school as 'obvious' becomes less and less obvious as you begin to study the universe. For example, there are no solids in the universe. There's not even a suggestion of a solid. There are no absolute continuums. There are no surfaces. There are no straight lines.
View quotes by R Buckminster Fuller

In the past we used to think of poverty in absolute terms - meaning straightforward material deprivation... We need to think of poverty in relative terms - the fact that some people lack those things which others in society take for granted.
View quotes by David Cameron

No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa.
View quotes by Eugene Ionesco

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