Relative Quotes

Everything is relative; and only that is absolute.

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

I have developed a very strong partiality for the dead: they don't talk back, they don't sue, and they don't have angry relatives.

Insanity is relative. Who sets the norm?

Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.

You only understand information relative to what you already understand.

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.

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

Where there's a will - there's a relative!

Everything is relative except relatives, and they are absolute.

The worst hatred is that of relatives.

There is no such thing as evil. Only relative degrees of good.

But everything is relative, Bertie... You, for instance, are my relative, and I am your relative.

Life grows relative to one’s investment in it.

Impossible is relative.

Success is a relative term. It brings so many relatives.

While real perfection is only one, relative perfections must be many.

Such happiness is relative and is better called pleasure or satisfaction.

We who are interested in relative truth have to keep digging for it and not let ourselves be sucked under.

No man will be respected by others who is despised by his own relatives.

The truth that could be extracted from words was such a fluctuating, relative truth.

Everything in life is relative.

Maybe love, like suffering, is relative.

Blood relatives often have nothing to do with family, and similarly, family is about who you choose to make your life with.

You all have a relative who is an expert even though they really don't know what they're talking about.

Even those of us who are very very aware are still so unaware. Everything's relative so that, the more you know, the more you know you don't know anything.

History within itself cannot be transcended. ... In history itself there are only relative victories.

My basic rule is if the relative risk isn't at least 3 or 4, forget it.

It is reasonable to love the Absolute absolutely for the same reason it is reasonable to love the relative relatively.

Speed is relative. You have to live it. You can't just jump into it. You have to live it all the time.

I still have drive, but everything is relative.

Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.

What is Thanksgiving without a nutty relative?

Are not all finite beings better pleased with motions relative than absolute?

Freedom, like everything else, is relative.

All wealth is relative; and so is its absence.

Older, you know, is obviously relative. You're older if there's somebody younger than you in the room, and you're younger if there's someone older in the room.

The idea that things intrinsically were just better is so stupid to me because they never were. It's all relative.

Our relative being is what rules our relative world.

Until a friend or relative has applied a particular proverb to your own life, or until you've watched him apply the proverb to his own life, it has no power to sway you.

Truth is, of course, relative. But then, so is relative.

Poverty is relative, and, therefor not ignoble.

Time has only a relative existence.

To be Canadian is to live in relative calm and with great dignity.

Size is relative. If everyone is fat, no-one is fat

Normal is all relative.

Set measurable goals, measure relative to competition.

The Bible's been attacked. What is truth? It's relative.

I seem to have emerged from the relative obscurity of TV.