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Relative Quotes

One word, four completely different fields.

A skydiver's move from 'relative' freefall into freeflying sits oddly close to a finance quote weighing how illiquid small-company shares can be relative to larger ones.

The relative illiquidity of small-company shares - which often contributes to their being undervalued - also increases their volatility.

Quotes by Whitney Tilson

From regular, relative skydiving, I went on to freeflying. Freeflying is more the three-dimensional skydiving.

Quotes by Ueli Gegenschatz

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

Quotes by Todd Burpo

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

Quotes by Ricky Gervais

Accomplished Quotes

Changes in relative ionic concentration across the postsynaptic membrane are readily effected by altering the ionic composition of the external medium.

Quotes by John Eccles

The criterion for free choice can never be an absolute one, but neither is it entirely relative.

Quotes by Herbert Marcuse

Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.

Quotes by Fareed Zakaria

Yes. We do think that the stimulus package is raising GDP and raising employment relative to what would have happened otherwise.

Quotes by Doug Elmendorf

I still have drive, but everything is relative.

Quotes by Don Rickles

Been Quotes

Freedom is relative.

Quotes by Billy Graham

The keystone of the Fascist doctrine is its conception of the State, of its essence, its functions, and its aims. For Fascism the State is absolute, individuals and groups relative.

Quotes by Benito Mussolini

Everything is relative except relatives, and they are absolute.

Quotes by Alfred Stieglitz

I was discovered, or mentored, by Norman Lear, who plucked me from the grinder of relative obscurity.

Quotes by Alan Thicke

Relative to all the start-ups out there, getting a valuation of $1 billion is rarely accomplished.

Quotes by Aileen Lee

Frequently Asked Questions

What does 'relative' mean across these quotes?
It shifts meaning entirely from one quote to the next, a skydiving technique, the illiquidity of small-company shares, philosophical relativity of truth, and even ionic concentration in neuroscience.
Why do people search for quotes using the word 'relative'?
Because the word is genuinely flexible, people look for these quotes across very different contexts, finance, science, philosophy, rather than for one single theme, which makes this collection more of a language study than a topic.
One quote asks whether truth itself is relative, is this collection philosophical?
Partly, that line does raise a real philosophical question, prompted by a challenge to the Bible's authority, but most of the other quotes use 'relative' in a much more technical, non-philosophical sense.
Are any of these quotes scientific?
Yes, one describes relative ionic concentration across a cell membrane, a neuroscience detail that shows the word's precise, technical use far from its everyday meaning.
What's the throughline connecting quotes this different?
Only the word itself, each quote treats 'relative' as a comparison against something else, whether that's another skydiving style, market conditions, or a debated truth.

The sharpest use asks whether truth itself is relative after the Bible comes under attack, a debate that has stayed relative-truth's toughest question.