True Quotes

• All around me insisted that my doubts proved only my own ignorance and sinfulness; that they knew by experience they would soon give place to true knowledge, and an advance in religion; and I felt something like indecision.

  

  Maria Monk
  • Experience
  • Knowledge
  • Ignorance

• True heroics, obviously, is not the absence of fear, but having that fear and doing something anyway.

  

  Martin Freeman
  • True
  • Fear

• It's the broadcaster's dilemma. Are we true journalists? I don't know if I am or not.

  

  Keith Jackson
  • True

• It is true that I have sent six bullets through the head of my best friend, and yet I hope to show by this statement that I am not his murderer.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Hope
  • Friend
  • Bullets

• It is true that we do not recognize greatness among us. Our measurements of importance are generally faulty and speak mainly to the superficialities of life, e.g., where one lives, the type of clothing one wears, the cars one drives, to the number of bodyguards that one employs to carry bags and open and close doors.

  

  Haki R. Madhubuti
  • Life
  • Greatness
  • Numbers

• The Bible has come under fire for making woman the fall guy in man's cosmic drama. But in casting a male conspirator, the serpent, as God's enemy, Genesis hedges and does not take its misogyny far enough. The Bible defensively swerves from God's true opponent, chthonian nature. The serpent is not outside Eve but in her. She is the garden and the serpent.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • God
  • She
  • Nature

• Acquire the courage to believe in yourself. Many of the things that you have been taught were at one time the radical ideas of individuals who had the courage to believe what their own hearts and minds told them was true, rather than accept the common beliefs of their day.

  

  Chin-Ning Chu
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Ideas

• True friends: only a few have 'em, but only a few will admit that they don't.

  

  Brian Celio
  • Friends
  • True

• Remember my first tenet in getting dressed is how you feel in the morning. So if you're not being true blue to that, it usually shows.

  

  Pharrell Williams N.E.R.D.
  • Remember
  • Morning
  • Blue

• When people hear the name 'Marco Polo,' they tend to think of a map or explorer. Very few people know the true story of Marco Polo, and it's so much more compelling and exciting than the mythology.

  

  John Fusco
  • People
  • True

• Long-term, I see robotics prevailing on the moon. . . . The most important decision we'll have to make about space travel is whether to commit to a permanent human presence on Mars. Without it, we'll never be a true space-faring people.

  

  Buzz Aldrin
  • People
  • Long
  • Important

• He used a name for himself, true, but we played at Romance, and this is a game where truth is a bagatelle.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Truth
  • True
  • Game

• You have to be a xenophile at heart to be a true New Yorker.

  

  Chris Diamantopoulos
  • Heart
  • True

• It's only words... unless they're true.

  

  David Mamet
  • True
  • Words

• My biggest dream to connect people through music has come true. In a world where there are enough reasons to separate us, the Oscars have unified us.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • People
  • World
  • Music

• In this drawing we just let our imagination run wild. We visualized Superman toys, games, and a radio show - that was before TV - and Superman movies. We even visualized Superman billboards. And it's all come true.

  

  Joe Shuster
  • Imagination
  • Drawing
  • Superman

• I believe that dance is the oldest, noblest and most cogent of the arts. I believe that dance is the most perfect symbol of the activity of God and His angels. I believe that dance has the power to heal, mentally and physically. I believe that true education in the art of dance is education of the whole man.

  

  Ted Shawn
  • God
  • Believe
  • Art

• The proposition, that the people are the best keepers of their own liberties, is not true; they are the worst conceivable; they are no keepers at all; they can neither judge, act, think, or will, as a political body.

  

  John Adams
  • People
  • Political
  • Judge

• Actions speak louder than words, and it's no more true than with your kids.

  

  Brad Pitt
  • Kids
  • True
  • Words

• A surprising amount of my jokes sound very implausible but are true.

  

  Jimmy Carr
  • True

• What really grabs me is when a reader writes to express her personal story and how a book helped her situation, or her acceptance of a situation she can't change. I read some sad cases in my snail and electronic mail. I respond to all I can, affirming that they are the true heroes of life because they are fighting through adversity and surviving.

  

  Lurlene McDaniel
  • Life
  • Writing
  • She

• If we are unfaithful to true self, we will extract the price from others.

  

  Parker Palmer
  • True

• I always dreamed of playing a night match on Arthur Ashe Stadium. It's a dream come true for me.

  

  Denis Shapovalov
  • True
  • Dream
  • Night

• If the brain expects that a treatment will work, it sends healing chemicals into the bloodstream, which facilitates that. And the opposite is equally true and equally powerful: When the brain expects that a therapy will not work, it doesn't. It's called the 'nocebo' effect.

  

  Bruce Lipton
  • Work
  • Powerful
  • Brain

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