True Quotes

False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports.

I think it will be found that experience, the true source and foundation of all knowledge, invariably confirms its truth.

We love because it's the only true adventure.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

If it's right and true, it's listened to and accommodated.

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

The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.

I think we do have our true, original stories that work. I can tell you that 'The King's Speech,' which we did, became a worldwide smash because people loved the personal story.

However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

It is true I had been successful on a small scale in overcoming one of the main difficulties in the new process, but there was still much to invent, and much that at that period I necessarily knew nothing about.

My friend James Cameron and I made three films together - True Lies, The Terminator and Terminator 2. Of course, that was during his early, low-budget, art-house period.

No man enjoys the true taste of life, but he who is ready and willing to quit it.

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

The inward area is the first place of loss of true Christian life, of true spirituality, and the outward sinful act is the result.

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.