True Quotes

The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.

A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.

If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.

To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits and aversions.

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say for one that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem.

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.

Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.

True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.

True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west; people create distinctions out of their own minds and then believe them to be true.

Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.

Women are like teabags. We don't know our true strength until we are in hot water!

True happiness... is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

It's not true I had nothing on, I had the radio on.

It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.

Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul.

The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.

Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

True friends stab you in the front.

It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.

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.

This above all; to thine own self be true.

In a false quarrel there is no true valor.

Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.

To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.

The course of true love never did run smooth.

True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.

There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.

No kidding. That's really true. You're paying your own bills through this. It's not a pleasant experience.

The true humanist maintains a just balance between sympathy and selection.

It takes a person who is wide awake to make his dream come true.

According to my principles, every master has his true and certain value. Praise and criticism cannot change any of that. Only the work itself praises and criticizes the master, and therefore I leave to everyone his own value.

What comprises good performance? The ability through singing or playing to make the ear conscious of the true content and affect of a composition.

You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it, however.

Live never to be ashamed if anything you say or do is published around the world, even if what is said is not true.

Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.

Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah.

True love stories never have endings.

I think what separates me from the candidates is the fact that I have a proven track record of being a fighter. A fighting for what people believe in, whether it is popular or not. Despite the opposition, I stand true. Because people know that I will do what I say. And that I say what I do.

For 180 years, we voted in English. That is the true American tradition, and this amendment is true to our heritage, not what has existed unnaturally for the last 20 years.

It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.

Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.

The true purpose of education is to teach a man to carry himself triumphant to the sunset.

When I thought about the calibre of people in the room I realized we might just have a credible candidate for Mayor who will would finally enforce the laws of the city. It was almost too good to be true.

It's true that I don't rearrange that much in the fiction, but I feel if you change even one name or the order of one event then you have to call it fiction or you get all the credits of non-fiction without paying the price.

True, the name of the product wasn't so great. Kindle? It was cute and sinister at the same time - worse than Edsel, or Probe, or Microsoft's Bob. But one forgives a bad name. One even comes to be fond of a bad name, if the product itself is delightful.

When you put your total faith in God, no matter what happens, to a person who's a true believer, if you die, you know you're going to heaven to be with God.

The true believer is rewarded in every thing, even in affliction.

The prehistorical and primitive period represents the true infancy of the mind.

Death showed up in my life very early on, so I'm aware of it. If you look at most of the things I write there's a sort of contemplation of mortality - although 'True Blood' doesn't fall into that. Even though there's such a ridiculously high body count!

'Six Feet Under' was about repressing our deepest, most primal impulses, and 'True Blood' is about giving full sway to them all the time. In a way they are like yin and yang.

'True Blood' differs from 'Six Feet Under' in that there are way more characters and plot-lines, but fundamentally it's still about the characters and their emotions.

Well, here's the thing with relationships on 'True Blood': Once they happen then you have to throw a monkey-wrench into them, because to have people be happy is not that exciting.

It's true that I have very little idea what I shall be writing next, but at the same time I have a powerful premonition of everything that lies ahead of me, even ten years ahead.

The One, the Good, the True, and the Beautiful, these are what we call the transcendental attributes of Being, because they surpass all the limits of essences and are coextensive with Being.

Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.

True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.

The longer you have something, the stronger the bond. That's true with people as well as things.

Every once in a while I play a true idiot, and they're really fun to play.

I live for those who love me, for those who know me true, for the heaven so blue above me, and the good that I can do.

A true revolution of values will soon look uneasily on the glaring contrast of poverty and wealth.

The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right.

A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself.

Half the lies they tell about me aren't true.

Opposition is true friendship.

The true method of knowledge is experiment.

The army is the true nobility of our country.