Best 538 quotes in «absence quotes» category

Tolerance is not the absence of belief. Tolerance is how your beliefs teach you to treat other people

To some extent I'm guilty of wishful thinking. The absence of the interstitial I find unbearable.

True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it.

True humility is not in the absence of confidence but strength restrained.

True Joy is not the absence of pain but the sanctifying, sustaining presence of the Lord Jesus in the midst of the pain

Trump appears to some as too simulated, too much a spectacle. But all authorized politics is spectacle. He just does it in a different style. It's not conservative, its post-liberal. Rather than make hypocritical gestures towards the just, the good and the true, it's about making hyperbolic gestures about their absence.

Trust is not established in the absence of betrayal, but in those whose betrayal is least.

Twilight of the Elites main thesis has been borne out far past what I could ever have imagined. The major idea was that these series of elite failures created this crisis of authority which was fertilizing distrust in the pillars and institutions of American society. In the absence of that authority there's this vacuum which is easily filled by authoritarian solutions, and I think that's exactly what happened.

We don't have enough parallel universes to allow all uses of all junction types - in the absence of quantum computing the combinatorics are not in our favor.

Tyranny is usually tempered with assassination, and Democracy must be tempered with culture. In the absence of this, it turns into a representation of collective folly.

Until recent times, absence of evidence for his [Jehovah's] existence has not been sufficient to rule him out. However, we now have enough knowledge that we can identify many places where there should be evidence, but there is not. The absence of that evidence allows us to rule out the existence of this God beyond a reasonable doubt.

We can better see what we don't have. The other man's grass is always greener and now we can actually go and visit his grass much more and feel the absence of green in our own lives.

We do not place especial value on the possession of a virtue until we notice its total absence in our opponent.

We have really no absent friends.

We know that an object that is not consciously noticed at the time of a first visit can, by its absence during subsequent visits, provoke an indefinable impression: as a result of this sighting backward in time, the absence of the object becomes a presence one can feel.

We have no Constitution which functions in the absence of a moral people

We have wandered into a state of prolonged neurosis because of the absence of a direct pipeline to the unconscious and we have then fallen victim to priestcraft of every conceivable sort.

We should hold day with the Antipodes, If you would walk in absence of the sun.

We moved up to Oregon when I was eight, and I think the radical absence of Jewish life here might have strangely made me feel more Jewish. It's a contextual thing I guess.

We should not seek to confirm God's will by the absence of adversity.

We soon cease to feel the grief at the deaths of our friends, yet we continue to the end of our lives to miss them. They are still with us in their absence.

Wellness is not the absence of pain ..... But the absence of limitation

What freezings I have felt, what dark days seen, What old December's bareness everywhere!

What I lack in decorum, I make up for with an absence of tact.

What is faith? If you believe something because you have evidence for it, or rational argument, that is not faith. So faith seems to be believing something despite the absence of evidence or rational argument for it.

What is it that we call loneliness. It can’t simply be the absence of others, you can be alone and not lonely, and you can be among people and yet be lonely. So what is it?

"What is love?"; "The total absence of fear," said the Master; "What is it we fear?"; "Love," said the Master.

What I sometimes mistake for ecstasy is simply the absence of grief.

What haunts me is not exactly the absence of literal space so much as a deep craving for metaphorical space: release, escape, some kind of open-ended freedom.

Western dictionaries define secularism as absence of religion but Indian secularism does not mean irreligiousness.It means profusion of religions.

What is slander? A verdict of "guilty" pronounced in the absence of the accused, with closed doors, without defence or appeal, by an interested and prejudiced judge.

What, really, is wanted from a neighborhood? Convenience, certainly, an absence of major aggravation, to be sure. But perhaps mostof all, ideally, what is wanted is a comfortable background, a breathing space of intermission between the intensities of private life and the calculations of public life.

What we call evil is the absence of Light, of love, in all cases.

When money disappears, we soon understand the power of absence.

When we experience the power of the Self, there is an absence of fear, there is no compulsion to control, and no struggle for approval or external power.

When you're having a bad day at work, a lot of times it's your head. When you're having good days, a lot of times it's the absence of the mind.

Where God's presence is no longer a tenable proposition and where his absence is no longer a felt, indeed overwhelming weight, certain dimensions of thought and creativity are no longer attainable.

While formal schooling is an important advantage, it is not a guarantee of success nor is its absence a fatal handicap.

When the president acts in absence of a congressional grant of authority, he can rely only upon his own independent powers. When the president takes measures incompatible with the express or implied will of Congress, his power is at its lowest ebb.

Without will, without individuals, there are no heroes. But neither are there villains. And the absence of villains is as prostrating, as soul-destroying, as the absence of heroes.

Woman absent is woman dead.

Yes, I am so free. And what a superb absence is my soul.

Yes, the fear of its blankness. At the same time, I kind of loved it. Mallarmé was trying to make the page a blank page. But if you're going to make the page a blank page, it's not just the absence of something, it has to become something else. It has to be material, it has to be this thing. I wanted to turn a page into a thing.

You'll find boredom where there is the absence of a good idea.

Your absence is the presence of godliness.

Your absence has gone through me

Your absence weighs more than someone else’s presence

Wilderness is not defined by the absence of certain activities, but rather by the presence of certain unique and invaluable characteristics.

Will capitalist economies operate at full employment in the absence of routine intervention? Certainly not.

Your absence of mind we have borne, till your presence of body came to be called in question by it.