True Quotes

A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.

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.

My dad was this sort of avant-garde guy who did all kinds of weird things. He was a true original and anybody who met him never forgot him.

In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true.

My name is very often associated with parties and entertaining, but it's not true. I am not such a party person.

However, don't let these statistics mislead you, gang violence is not limited to California and or big urban areas - that might have been true a while ago but it is no longer the case today.

I don't know who said that novelists read the novels of others only to figure out how they are written. I believe it's true. We aren't satisfied with the secrets exposed on the surface of the page: we turn the book around to find the seams.

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

They say that our sovereign is above his laws to his pleasure, and he may make it and break it as he pleases, without any distinction. The contrary is true, or else he should not have sworn to keep it.

The faster you go, the more students you leave behind. It doesn't matter how much or how fast you teach. The true measure is how much students have learned.

I understand why some kid in his bedroom in Wisconsin thinks downloading songs couldn't hurt anyone. True fans will buy the CD or go see the movie after downloading, but to say it doesn't affect anyone - come on.

"Let God be true but every man a liar" is the language of true faith.

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

Jackie Robinson is a true legend.

The true test of a leader is whether his followers will adhere to his cause from their own volition, enduring the most arduous hardships without being forced to do so, and remaining steadfast in the moments of greatest peril.

For years the league has thought I've been on drugs. I would have burned out a long time ago if that was true.

It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.

There is only one real failure in life that is possible, and that is, not to be true to the best one knows.

I believe with all my heart that civilization has produced nothing finer than a man or woman who thinks and practices true tolerance.

Perhaps, more importantly, I think that most human beings realise only a fraction of the true potential of their minds, so the spiritual or mystical, the things which remain mysterious or unexplained have always drawn me to include them in any scheme for a novel.

It's only words... unless they're true.

It is like writing history with lightning and my only regret is that it is all so terribly true.

Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history.

In effect, to follow, not to force the public inclination; to give a direction, a form, a technical dress, and a specific sanction, to the general sense of the community, is the true end of legislature.

When I grew up in the '60s, we were actually dominated by this, you know, sort of conforming '50s culture, even though we were like trying to express our own culture, like, the dominant culture was the thing that was forming us. And I think that that's true today.

Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.

Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.

Your desires and true beliefs have a way of playing blind man's bluff. You must corner the inner facts.

In trials of fact, by oral testimony, the proper inquiry is not whether is it possible that the testimony may be false, but whether there is sufficient probability that it is true.

It would be difficult to discover the truth about the universe if we refused to consider anything that might be true.