True Quotes

• I think an artist's true worth comes through an inter-generational thing - when you go beyond your own time, and start influencing people in a greater way than just what surrounds you.

  

  Daryl Franklin Hohl
  • People
  • Time
  • True

• Just as cherry, plum, peach and damson blossoms all possess their own unique qualities, each person is unique. We cannot become someone else. The important thing is that we live true to ourselves and cause the great flower of our lives to blossom.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Great
  • Important
  • Live

• Thus mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • May
  • True

• While it is true that science cannot decide questions of value, that is because they cannot be intellectually decided at all, and lie outside the realm of truth and falsehood. Whatever knowledge is attainable, must be attained by scientific methods; and what science cannot discover, mankind cannot know.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Truth
  • Science
  • Knowledge

• It isn't true that you live only once. You only die once. You live lots of times, if you know how.

  

  Bobby Darin
  • Live
  • True
  • Die

• I've heard rumors about myself that are true - and nobody likes that. But there's actually something very liberating when you hear a false rumor because you realize there's nothing you can do. People are going to say whatever they want - especially on chat boards.

  

  Christian Borle
  • People
  • True
  • Rumors

• There are different gradations of personhood in different poems. Some of them seem far away from me and some up close, and the up-close ones generally don't say what I want them to say. And that's true of the persona in the poem who's lamenting this as a fact of a certain stage of life. But it's also true of me as me.

  

  Anne Carson
  • Life
  • Up
  • Different

• It took me a while to learn the true meaning of patience and surrender, but I have finally accepted that healing doesn't happen on our schedule. It doesn't have a clock or a calendar.

  

  Yolanda Hadid
  • True
  • Patience
  • Healing

• Wars produce many stories of fiction, some of which are told until they are believed to be true.

  

  Ulysses S. Grant
  • True

• True love should be transformative; a process that amplifies our capacity to cherish not just one person but all people. It can make us stronger, lift us higher and deepen us as individuals. Only to the extent that we polish ourselves now can we hope to develop wonderful bonds of the heart in the future.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • People
  • Heart
  • Hope

• Space is as infinite as we can imagine, and expanding this perspective is what adjusts humankind focus on conquering our true enemies, the formidable foes: ignorance and limitation.

  

  Vanna Bonta
  • Space
  • Focus
  • Perspective

• True religion is when you serve God to get nothing else but more of God.

  

  J. D. Greear
  • God
  • True Religion
  • Serving God

• It's so true: the fight is won or lost in the gym, and those words really stuck with me throughout my career.

  

  Katie Taylor
  • Career
  • Words
  • Lost

• A lot of writers dream of feature films, but television - by way of TNT, CBS, Lifetime, and Hallmark Hall of Fame - has always called my name. And after seeing 'True Detective,' can there be any doubt that the storytelling on TV is as genius as it gets?

  

  Luanne Rice
  • True
  • Dream
  • Doubt

• 'True Lies' reinvented me in the eyes of a new generation and got me offers.

  

  Art Malik
  • True
  • Eyes
  • Lies

• I believe all suffering is caused by ignorance. People inflict pain on others in the selfish pursuit of their happiness or satisfaction. Yet true happiness comes from a sense of inner peace and contentment, which in turn must be achieved through the cultivation of altruism, of love and compassion and elimination of ignorance, selfishness and greed.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • People
  • Believe
  • Peace

• Interracial marriages were basically legalized, but nevertheless, there was a social stigma attached to them for a long time to come. I imagine that's going to be true for same-sex marriages - that people's emotional comfort level with it will not fully materialize for decades.

  

  Mark Takano
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• The Flower of My Secret is definitely more based in true emotions. I also wanted to make something more realistic, but not naturalistic or simple.

  

  Pedro Almodovar
  • True
  • Simple
  • Flower

• I have no way of knowing that your story is not true - but you have no way of knowing that my story isn't true. So I will choose the one that I love. I will close the one that, if it's true, makes this reality one worth living in. I'll act as if the life I hope for is real life, and the life that disgusts me - your life, your view of life - is the lie.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Life
  • Real
  • Hope

• Every story was being made up. My true friends weren't the ones speaking. It was people who never knew me, making up stories. Even my local paper put a $1,000 bounty out for information about my whereabouts.

  

  Marla Maples
  • People
  • Up
  • Friends

• I'm Marie Lightfoot, or at least that's the name my publisher puts on the covers of the books I write about true crime. In classic 'true crime' fashion, my latest one is titled 'Anything to Be Together.'

  

  Nancy Pickard
  • Together
  • Fashion
  • Name

• What was right and true yesterday is wrong and false today. What was immoral and shameful — promiscuity, abortion, euthanasia, suicide — has become progressive and praiseworthy. Nietzsche called it the transvaluation of all values; the old virtues become sins, and the old sins become virtues.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • True
  • Today
  • Suicide

• Music turned to digital, and suddenly you had the possibility to make things louder than loudest, which boggles the mind but it's true, and what you have are all kinds of different ways of distorting your music.

  

  Geddy Lee Weinrib Rush
  • Music
  • Different
  • Mind

• It's true that, in Iran, women have half of the rights men do. And yet 66 per cent of students are women.

  

  Marjane Satrapi
  • Men
  • Women
  • True

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