True Quotes

Faith: not wanting to know what is true.

The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.

Young people love what is interesting and odd, no matter how true or false it is. More mature minds love what is interesting and odd about truth. Fully mature intellects, finally, love truth, even when it appears plain and simple, boring to the ordinary person; for they have noticed that truth tends to reveal its highest wisdom in the guise of simplicity.

What convinces is not necessarily true-it is merely convincing: a note for asses.

The true logic of this world is in the calculus of probabilities.

Mercy is the true power that can save humanity and the world from sin and evil.

Let us not be satisfied with a mediocre life. Be amazed by what is true and beautiful, what is of God!

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.