True Quotes

• I just want to make something that is true to itself and that interests me; otherwise, how can I have the audacity to think it's going to interest anybody else?

  

  Alexandra Cassavetes
  • True

• The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Character
  • True
  • Education

• We never see the true state of our condition till it is illustrated to us by its contraries, nor know how to value what we enjoy, but by the want of it.

  

  Daniel Defoe
  • True
  • Value

• I must keep alive in myself the desire for my true country, which I shall not find till after death; I must never let it get snowed under or turned aside; I must make it the main object of life to press on to that other country and to help others to do the same.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Life
  • Country
  • Help

• Our time here is magic! It's the only space you have to realize whatever it is that is beautiful, whatever is true, whatever is great, whatever is potential, whatever is rare, whatever is unique, in. It's the only space.

  

  Ben Okri
  • Time
  • Great
  • Beautiful

• The essence of all religions is love, compassion and tolerance. Kindness is my true religion. No matter whether you are learned or not, whether you believe in the next life or not, whether you believe in God or Buddha or some other religion or not, in day-to-day life you must be a kind person.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Life
  • God
  • Believe

• 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

• A true revolution of values will soon look uneasily on the glaring contrast of poverty and wealth.

  

  Christopher Charles Lloyd
  • True
  • Poverty
  • Revolution

• All you gotta do is think of the song in your head. And it doesn't matter whether you can play it or not, you can get somebody to play it. With songs I've written, there's a song called "The Statue", which I can't play. There are songs that I've written that I've actually just hummed on - there's a song on one of the albums they have there on the Internet called "My Love Was True" and it's almost operatic. I can't play it. But I can sing it.

  

  Don McLean
  • Thinking
  • Song
  • Internet

• It's true that I have never met any man whom I thought altogether resembled me - but only because my faults are so enormous.

  

  Enzo Ferrari
  • True

• Torture is illegal, both in the U.S. and abroad. So - and that is true for the Bush administration and for any other administration.

  

  Jane Mayer
  • True

• People say that I'm a millionaire, but that's not true - I only spend millions.

  

  Robert Plant Led Zeppelin
  • People
  • True

• It was said of me recently that I suffered from an Obsessional Privacy. I can only suppose it must be true.

  

  Dirk Bogarde
  • True

• Ill tell you, Mr. Thomas, why some Christians are afraid of me. They're not sure that what they believe is really true. If they were sure, I wouldn't be a threat to them at all.

  

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair
  • Believe
  • Why
  • Christian

• The Germans are called brutal, the Spanish cruel, the Americans superficial, and so on; but we are perfide Albion, the island of hypocrites, the people who have built up an Empire with a Bible in one hand, a pistol in the other, and financial concessions in both pockets. Is the charge true? I think it is.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • People
  • Up
  • Thinking

• Our most valuable teachers are our enemies.While our friends can help us in many ways, only our enemies can provide us with the challenge we need to develop tolerance, patience, and compassionthree virtues essential for building character, developing peace of mind, and bringing us true happiness.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Mind
  • Character
  • Friends

• A lot of people assume that the expensive ideas are the most effective ones, but that is simply not true.

  

  Jaime Lerner
  • People
  • True

• It is unfortunately true that our generation and that of your parents have left you with a big mess that will now be yours to clean up: wars, budget challenges, pollution, global warming, battles of health care, natural disasters. They're all there for you. We're willing those to you. Are you ready?

  

  John Morgridge
  • Up
  • Parents
  • Health

• Faith can make no appeal to reason or the fitness of things; its appeal is to the Word of God, and whatever is therein revealed, faith accepts as true.

  

  Edward McKendree Bounds
  • God
  • Faith
  • Reason

• 'True Romance' was definitely, in part, still me finding my voice as a writer. I was nervous, and I was a lot more shy. The album sounds bruised.

  

  Charli XCX
  • True

• We have this myth that if you work hard, you can accomplish anything. It's not a very American thing to say, but I don't think that's true. It's true for a lot of people, but you need other things to succeed. You need luck, you need opportunity, and you need the life skills to recognize what an opportunity is.

  

  David Lindsay-Abaire
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• I'm a stickler for structure. So I tend to make sure I'm hitting certain points in the script and that I'm progressing and moving things along. You know, are the characters keeping the plot moving along? And are they true, and do I know their motivations?

  

  Allison Schroeder
  • True
  • Moving

• For years the league has thought I've been on drugs. I would have burned out a long time ago if that was true.

  

  Dennis Rodman
  • Time
  • Long
  • True

• Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Power
  • True
  • Striking

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