True Quotes
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Many philosophers say it's impossible to explain our conscious experience in scientific, biological terms at all. But that's not exactly true. Scientists have explained why we have certain experiences and not others. It's just that they haven't explained the special features of consciousness that philosophers care about.
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Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. Like friends, too, we should return to them again and again for, like true friends, they will never fail us - never cease to instruct - never cloy.
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We've all faced the charge that our novels are history lite, and to some extent, that's true. Yet for some, historical fiction is a way into reading history proper.
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Consider this point. It is a main point of true wisdom. Whenever there is an execution of purpose, there must be an agent.
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Having come up in the era where movies are only movies if they're released in the theater... I don't know if that holds true anymore. I've been involved in some movies that have gone 'direct-to-video,' and that used to not be a good thing, but now it's different.
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There is no proverb that is not true.
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There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
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As an artist I'd choose the thing that's beautiful more than the one that's true.
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Whenever you're feeling moments of discomfort, that means true change is happening for you.
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I would love to do more music, definitely. That is my true passion. Dance is first and then music.
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Death cannot stop true love. All it can do is delay it for a while.
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Dare to be true. Nothing can need a lie: a fault which needs it most, grows two thereby.
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There was one titanic guiding light on the film set, and I was in the presence of a true Mahatma, in the deepest and most profound sense of the word.
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Having a baby on my own is a dream come true, but in my world, there's no sheepish spouse on his way home from a work trip to offer me a stretch of alone time.
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It was so much more complicated than it had to be, but the changeling had noted that this was true of every human biological function that wasn’t involuntary.
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I exaggerate when I'm angry, but I've never gone around telling people things that aren't true about me.
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Everybody's always living in fiction just as much as children, but the way our stories are faked is curtailed by all sorts of narratives we take into our own lives about what are the true narratives and what's not.
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With Francis Bacon, Vico continuously asserts the claims of grammar as true science precisely because it has not yielded to specialism and method.
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It is during difficult times like this that the true American spirit reveals itself. I am not talking only of the response of local, state, and federal governments, although they will each play an extremely important role in this effort.
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If religion is only human, and its form is man's form, it follows that everything in religion is true.
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The duty of 'saving' became nine-tenths of virtue and the growth of the cake the object of true religion.
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Look at the films of Walt Disney: 'Snow White' came out in February 1938, and I can't think of another film from that year that's watched as much. The same is true of 'Bambi,' 'Dumbo'... even, frankly, 'Toy Story,' which is probably watched more than any other movie of 1995.
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The drafts which true genius draws upon posterity, although they may not always be honored so soon as they are due, are sure to be paid with compound interest in the end.
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The facile delusions which conceal from us our true situation all amount to this: that we are, or can be, wiser than the wisest men of the past. We are thus induced to play the part, not of attentive and docile listeners, but of impresarios and lion-tamers.
