Quotes with relative

  • Poor is the man who does not know his own intrinsic worth and tends to measure everything by relative value. A man of financial wealth who values himself by his financial net worth is poorer than a poor man who values himself by his intrinsic self worth.
  • Some of what we read in classical literature is not relative to our condition, but then many women novelists and poets have turned it upside down and told the stories from the other point of view.
  • The whole visible universe is but a storehouse of images and signs to which the imagination will give a relative place and value; it is a sort of pasture which the imagination must digest and transform.
  • 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.
  • To revolt is a natural tendency of life. Even a worm turns against the foot that crushes it. In general, the vitality and relative dignity of an animal can be measured by the intensity of its instinct to revolt.
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  • Socrates A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.
    Socrates
    Greek philosopher (469 - 399)
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  • Jean-Luc Godard Beauty is composed of an eternal, invariable element whose quantity is extremely difficult to determine, and a relative element which might be, either by turns or all at once, period, fashion, moral, passion.
    Jean-Luc Godard
    French film director (1930 - 2022)
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  • Henry David Thoreau It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • George Ade A friend who is near and dear may in time become as useless as a relative.
    George Ade
    American humorist, playwright (1866 - 1944)
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  • Ann Bancroft A life lesson for me is, how do you muster the courage to take on a new risk? Whether it's starting up a business or taking on a new project or expedition. I think the risks that we take are all relative to the risk-taker.
    Ann Bancroft
    American author, teacher, adventurer (1955 - )
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  • Paul Klee Beauty is as relative as light and dark. Thus, there exists no beautiful woman, none at all, because you are never certain that a still far more beautiful woman will not appear and completely shame the supposed beauty of the first.
    Paul Klee
    Swiss artist (1879 - 1940)
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  • Action Bronson Everything is creative. It's all relative to me. No matter what, you've gotta use your imagination, use your senses.
    Action Bronson
    American rapper (1983 - )
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  • Aristotle Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Benito Mussolini Fascism conceives of the State as an absolute, in comparison with which all individuals or groups are relative, only to be conceived in their relation to the State.
    Source: The Doctrine of Fascism
    Benito Mussolini
    Italian journalist, politician and dictator (1883 - 1945)
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  • Franklin P. Jones Honest criticism is hard to take, especially from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.
    Franklin P. Jones
    American journalist (1908 - 1980)
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  • Barry Munro I judge the relative strength of a man by how envious they become, of others, who enjoy a measure of success.
    Barry Munro
     
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  • W. M. Thackeray If a man character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.
    W. M. Thackeray
    Indian-born, British novelist (1811 - 1863)
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  • Alexander Pope If a man's character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Billy Evans In all probability, when the 1919 series is over, a diagnosis of it will show that the final result was brought about by some unusual situation or freak happening that was given no consideration when the relative strength of the two clubs was considered.
    Billy Evans
    American umpire in Major League Baseball (1884 - )
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  • Bianca Kajlich It's easy when you've had difficulty or strife in your life to look at other people who seem like they've had it easier. But the thing we forget is that it is all relative, and each person's experience is uniquely their own, so that the worst thing they may be going through is truly the worst thing for them... it's just about having compassion.
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  • Barbara Kingsolver Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
    Source: Animal Dreams
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • Boris Yeltsin Money, big money (which is actually a relative concept) is always, under any circumstances, a seduction, a test of morals, a temptation to sin.
    Boris Yeltsin
    Russian politician (1931 - 2007)
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  • Bobby Clarke My dad had an aunt at the turn of the century who died from diabetes, but she was the closest affected relative in my family.
    Bobby Clarke
     
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  • Louis D. Brandeis Nearly all legislation involves a weighing of public needs as against private desires; and likewise a weighing of relative social values.
    Louis D. Brandeis
    American lawyer and associate justice on the Supreme Court (1856 - 1941)
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  • David Lehman Obscurantism is the academic theorist's revenge on society for having consigned him or her to relative obscurity - a way of proclaiming one's superiority in the face of one's diminished influence.
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