True Quotes

Liberalism, on the other hand, regards life as an adventure in which we must take risks in new situations, in which there is no guarantee that the new will always be the good or the true, in which progress is a precarious achievement rather than inevitability.

I think a common misperception about attuning and tending to a child's needs so constantly is that they don't grow in their independence, but I think that the opposite is true.

It's true, I had an extremely delicious life, but that was my life at home, and perhaps because I was only a child, or for whatever reasons, I found the company of others, especially other boys, quite terrifying and upsetting.

All that we call ideal in Greek or any other art, because to us it is false and visionary, was, to the makers of it, true and existent.

With me it is exceptionally true that the Presidency is no bed of roses.

And it is no less true, that personal security and private property rest entirely upon the wisdom, the stability, and the integrity of the courts of justice.

It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed.

If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him.

I'm a true believer in karma. You get what you give, whether it's bad or good.

Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble.

If you work in casting, it's sort of not cool to want to act. A lot of people think that casting directors are frustrated actors, but it wasn't true with any of the casting people I knew.

When a philosopher says something that is true then it is trivial. When he says something that is not trivial then it is false.

I realize I never stand out in a room unless I'm feeling balanced, centered and happy. It sounds really corny but it's very, very true.

Sometimes I get the feeling the whole world is against me, but deep down I know that's not true. Some of the smaller countries are neutral.

True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island... to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.

I do think that we are facing a crisis in our democracy. As true patriots, each and every one of us has to speak up, speak out, and change those in charge. Our democracy depends upon it.

The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.

Well can I just say unlike my predecessors, Conservative and Labour, I have set up an independent body that studies whether what I'm saying is true, whether I've met the targets that I set out.

It sounds like something from a Woody Guthrie song, but it's true; I was raised in a freight car.

They killed our mirror, our light, our comfort and our true guide.

A single prop that does not look real to an audience can louse you up. The same is true of the smallest flaw in setting up the motivation in a story line.

It is true that I have had heartache and tragedy in my life. These are things none of us avoids. Suffering is the price of being alive.

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

The true index of a man's character is the health of his wife.

This is true only because the purposes and objectives of the Committee for Industrial Organization find economic, social, political and moral justification in the hearts of the millions who are its members and the millions more who support it.

If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

It is true what Rimbaud said; If you think a book is strong enough, try it at the ocean, in the wind, at the waves. If the book can resist the ocean, then it exists. Otherwise, throw it away.

Bottom up thinkers try to start from experience and move from experience to understanding. They don't start with certain general principles they think beforehand are likely to be true; they just hope to find out what reality is like.

True maturity is only reached when a man realizes he has become a father figure to his girlfriends' boyfriends - and he accepts it.

There's this idea that somebody's job could be more important than somebody else's, and to me, that's not true.