True Quotes

Leaders, true leaders, take responsibility for the success of the team and understand that they must also take responsibility for the failure.

True forgiveness is when you can say, 'Thank you for that experience.

Your true passion should feel like breathing; it's that natural.

We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances.

A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding.

In experimental philosophy, we are to look upon propositions inferred by general induction from phenomena as accurately or very nearly true, notwithstanding any contrary hypotheses that may be imagined, till such time as other phenomena occur by which they may either be made more accurate or liable to exceptions.

The more time and devotion one spends in the worship of false gods, the less he is able to spend in that of the True One.

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.