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True Quotes

I am persuaded, you will permit me to observe, that the path of true piety is so plain as to require but little political direction.

The best and only safe road to honor, glory, and true dignity is justice.

Be Americans. Let there be no sectionalism, no North, South, East or West. You are all dependent on one another and should be one in union. In one word, be a nation. Be Americans, and be true to yourselves.

Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.

My works are the issue of simple and plain experience which is the true mistress.

The boundaries of bodies are the least of all things. The proposition is proved to be true, because the boundary of a thing is a surface, which is not part of the body contained within that surface; nor is it part of the air surrounding that body, but is the medium interposted between the air and the body, as is proved in its place.

No small hole can so modify the convergence of rays of light as to prevent, at a long distance, the transmission of the true form of the luminous body causing them.

And this network of veins acts in man as in oranges, in which the peel becomes thicker and the pulp diminishes the more they become old. And if you say that as the blood becomes thicker it ceases to flow through the veins, this is not true, for the blood in the veins does not thicken because it continually dies and is renewed.

The true conquests, the only ones that cause no regret, are those made over ignorance.

A true man hates no one.

The army is the true nobility of our country.

True heroism consists in rising superior to misfortune.

Public opinion is a mysterious and invisible power, to which everything must yield. There is nothing more fickle, more vague, or more powerful; yet capricious as it is, it is nevertheless much more often true, reasonable, and just, than we imagine.

No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.

While poverty persists, there is no true freedom.

True peace is not merely the absence of tension; it is the presence of justice.

The problem is with man himself and man's soul. We haven't learned how to be just and honest and kind and true and loving.

Hate destroys a man's sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false and the false with the true.

A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right. A man dies when he refuses to stand up for justice. A man dies when he refuses to take a stand for that which is true.

All we say to America is, "Be true to what you said on paper."