True Quotes

While I recognize the necessity for a basis of observed reality... true art lies in a reality that is felt.

~ Odilon Redon

Even a true artist does not always produce art.

~ Carroll O'connor

The true art of memory is the art of attention.

~ Samuel Johnson

True art selects and paraphrases, but seldom gives a verbatim translation.

~ Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one.

~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

To an intellectual who is adrift in politics, a theory is an aim; to a true politician his theory is a boundary.

~ Francis Parker Yockey

There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.

~ Thomas Aquinas

True friends stab you in the front.

~ Oscar Wilde

A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.

~ William Penn

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

~ St. Jerome

Opposition is true friendship.

~ William Blake

The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.

~ David Storey

Among the many reasons assignable for the sad decay of true Christianity, perhaps the neglecting to assemble ourselves together, in religious societies, may not be one of the least.

~ George Whitefield

It's true that humanity has seen a succession of crises, wars and atrocities, but this negative side is offset by advances in technology and cultural exchanges.

~ Abbe Pierre

What I found personally to be true was that it's easier to manipulate people rather than technology.

~ Kevin Mitnick

Go big or go home. Because it's true. What do you have to lose?

~ Eliza Dushku

Sir, I wish to understand the true principles of the Government. I wish them carried out. I ask nothing more.

~ William Henry Harrison

Foreign powers do not seem to appreciate the true character of our government.

~ James K. Polk

The true principle of taxation is the benefit principle - those who benefit from a government service should pay for it. It's also known as the 'user pay' principle. Every effort should be made to link the payment of taxes or fees to the cost associated with the government service.

~ Mark Skousen

It is perfectly true that that government is best which governs least. It is equally true that that government is best which provides most.

~ Walter Lippmann

Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.

~ Oprah Winfrey

True wisdom listens more, talks less and can get along with all types of people.

~ Kiana Tom

The first point of wisdom is to discern that which is false; the second, to know that which is true.

~ Lactantius

Combine the extremes, and you will have the true center.

~ Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Consider this point. It is a main point of true wisdom. Whenever there is an execution of purpose, there must be an agent.

~ Adoniram Judson

A Prius is not a true hybrid, really. The current Prius is, like, 2 percent electric. It's a gasoline car with slightly better mileage.

~ Elon Musk

True humility is contentment.

~ Henri-Frédéric Amiel

There can never be peace between nations until there is first known that true peace which is within the souls of men.

~ Black Elk

There are two traditions in Northern Ireland. There are two main religious denominations. But there is only one true moral denomination. And it wants peace.

~ David Trimble

It's true that a smile can take years off a person - not that such a thing matters in Yoko Ono's case.

~ Elvis Mitchell

The more we are filled with thoughts of lust the less we find true romantic love.

~ Douglas Horton

On 'The Office,' so much of the show is about disguising your true feelings and your romantic feelings because it was a mock documentary.

~ Mindy Kaling

The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.

~ H. G. Wells

Success in any endeavor depends on the degree to which it is an expression of your true self.

~ Ralph Marston

He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.

~ George Sand

Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.

~ Gustave Flaubert

Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry.

~ Virginia Woolf

That metre itself forms an essential part of all true poetry is a principle which not even the assertions of an Aristotle or the pronouncements of a Plato can disestablish.

~ H. P. Lovecraft

A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.

~ E. M. Forster

All one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry.

~ Gustave Flaubert