All Quotes

True poetry is similar to certain pictures whose owner is unknown and which only a few initiated people know.
‐‐ Eugenio Montale

True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can.
‐‐ Alexander Pope

True popularity comes from acts of kindness rather than acts of stupidity.
‐‐ Bo Bennett

True praise comes often even to the lowly; false praise only to the strong.
‐‐ Lucius Annaeus Seneca

True prayer is neither a mere mental exercise nor a vocal performance. It is far deeper than that - it is spiritual transaction with the Creator of Heaven and Earth.
‐‐ Charles Spurgeon

True prayer is not asking God for love; it is learning to love, and to include all mankind in one affection. Prayer is the utilization of the love wherewith He loves us.
‐‐ Mary Baker Eddy

True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice.
‐‐ Saint Francis de Sales

True, Putin's Russia does not dream of joining the E.U., but Russia's stability depends on preserving the European nature of its regime.
‐‐ Ivan Krastev

True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing.
‐‐ Jean Cocteau

True refuge is that which allows us to be at home, at peace, to discover true happiness. The only thing that can give us true refuge is the awareness and love that is intrinsic to who we are. Ultimately, it's our own true nature.
‐‐ Tara Brach

True relaxation, which would do me the world of good, does not exist for me.
‐‐ Gustav Klimt

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

True religious movements prosper and flourish under tribulation.
‐‐ Sun Myung Moon

True republicanism is the sovereignty of the people. There are natural and imprescriptible rights which an entire nation has no right to violate.
‐‐ Marquis de Lafayette

True respect means taking other people's beliefs seriously and assuming they are adult and intelligent enough to be able to cope with it if you tell them, clearly and civility, why you think they are totally, utterly and disastrously wrong.
‐‐ Julian Baggini

True revolutionaries are like God - they create the world in their own image. Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.
‐‐ Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

True satisfaction and true justice, in my belief, will only come for Americans, and for that matter now for Spaniards and Turks and Saudis and Moroccans, when we put an end to terrorism.
‐‐ Richard Armitage

True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.
‐‐ James Russell Lowell

'True School' is one great big reminder. It's a reminder to everybody in that middle school bracket that was in school when playing hard to get was out.
‐‐ Monie Love

True science is never speculative; it employs hypotheses as suggesting points for inquiry, but it never adopts the hypotheses as though they were demonstrated propositions.
‐‐ Cleveland Abbe

True science teaches, above all, to doubt and to be ignorant.
‐‐ Miguel de Unamuno

True Scouts are the best friends of animals, for from living in the woods and wilds, and practising observation and tracking, they get to know more than other people about the ways and habits of birds and animals, and therefore they understand them and are more in sympathy with them.
‐‐ Robert Baden-Powell

True security is based on people's welfare - on a thriving economy, on strong public health and education programmes, and on fundamental respect for our common humanity. Development, peace, disarmament, reconciliation and justice are not separate from security; they help to underpin it.
‐‐ Ban Ki-moon

True self is non-self, the awareness that the self is made only of non-self elements. There's no separation between self and other, and everything is interconnected. Once you are aware of that you are no longer caught in the idea that you are a separate entity.
‐‐ Thich Nhat Hanh

True simplicity is, well, you just keep on going and going until you get to the point where you go, 'Yeah, well, of course.' Where there's no rational alternative.
‐‐ Jonathan Ive

True solidarity is only possible among the solitary.
‐‐ Jose Bergamin

True, some land was bought by a few Cabinet Ministers. They bought the land. No minister, to my knowledge acquired land which was meant for resettlement.
‐‐ Robert Mugabe

True stability results when presumed order and presumed disorder are balanced. A truly stable system expects the unexpected, is prepared to be disrupted, waits to be transformed.
‐‐ Tom Robbins

True stories, autobiographical stories, like some novels, begin long ago, before the acts in the account, before the birth of some of the people in the tale.
‐‐ Harold Brodkey

True strength is delicate.
‐‐ Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

True strength lies in submission which permits one to dedicate his life, through devotion, to something beyond himself.
‐‐ Henry Miller

True success has more components than one sentence or idea can contain.
‐‐ Zig Ziglar

True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
‐‐ Paul Sweeney

True success, true happiness lies in freedom and fulfillment.
‐‐ Dada Vaswani

True teachers use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross; then, having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create bridges of their own.
‐‐ Nikos Kazantzakis

True terror is a language and a vision. There is a deep narrative structure to terrorist acts, and they infiltrate and alter consciousness in ways that writers used to aspire to.
‐‐ Don DeLillo

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
‐‐ Kurt Vonnegut

True terrorism, you know, weaponized fear. In defense of ourselves, we're fighting - actively fighting something else. But if you're going to fight terrorism, to me, you fight the root causes of terrorism.
‐‐ Lupe Fiasco

True, the apostles did not expressly say that people will be saved only if they repent, believe, and confess. But most evangelicals assume - with good reason - that this is what the apostles implied.
‐‐ Lewis B. Smedes

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.
‐‐ Nicholson Baker

True there has been more talk of peace since 1945 than, I should think, at any other time in history. At least we hear more and read more about it because man's words, for good or ill, can now so easily reach the millions.
‐‐ Lester B. Pearson

True thoughts are those alone which do not understand themselves.
‐‐ Theodor Adorno

True time is four-dimensional.
‐‐ Martin Heidegger

True twins share womb chemistry and endure many fateful slings and arrows together. The fabled connection between twins is true in my case.
‐‐ Gregory Benford

True valor lies between cowardice and rashness.
‐‐ Miguel de Cervantes

True valor, on virtue founded strong, meets all events alike.
‐‐ David Mallet

True virtue is life under the direction of reason.
‐‐ Baruch Spinoza

True virtue would never liken its rewards to points on a loyalty card, not because it is its own reward, but because it is not something we should practice to accrue future benefits.
‐‐ Julian Baggini

True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
‐‐ Petrarch

True, when you behold Damascus from the Salahiyeh, the last slope of the Anti-Lebanon, it is the realization of all that you have dreamed of Oriental splendor; the world has no picture more dazzling. It is Beauty carried to the Sublime, as I have felt when overlooking some boundless forest of palms within the tropics.
‐‐ Bayard Taylor