True Quotes

"That is the true season of love, when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved so before us, and that no one will love in the same way after us."
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"The true, prescriptive artist strives after artistic truth; the lawless artist, following blind instinct, after an appearance of naturalness. The one leads to the highest peaks of art, the other to its lowest depths."
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children."
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Be true to your work, your word, and your friend. "
-Henry David Thoreau

"To believe your own thought: To believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men, that is genius."
-Henry David Thoreau

"Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves."
-Henry David Thoreau

"He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul's estate. "
-Henry David Thoreau

"Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is in prison."
-Henry David Thoreau

"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science."
-Albert Einstein

"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed."
-Albert Einstein

"The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It's the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and science. Whoever does not know it can no longer wander, no longer marvel, is as good as dead, and his eyes are dimmed."
-Albert Einstein

"I feel that you are justified in looking into the future with true assurance, because you have a mode of living in which we find the joy of life and the joy of work harmoniously combined. Added to this is the spirit of ambition which pervades your very being, and seems to make the day's work like a happy child at play."
-Albert Einstein

"True greatness consists in the use of a powerful understanding to enlighten oneself and others."
-Voltaire

"We love because it's the only true adventure."
-Nikki Giovanni

"Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Whoever is open, loyal, true; of humane and affable demeanour; honourable himself, and in his judgement of others; faithful to his word as to law, and faithful alike to God and man....such a man is a true gentleman."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conduced, will yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The true test of a civilization is not the census, nor the size of the cities, nor the crops—no, but the kind of man the country turns out."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"And the only life which looks down upon the life of political ambition is that of true philosophy. Do you know of any other?"
-Plato

"Knowledge is true opinion."
-Plato

"Political language - and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists - is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind."
-George Orwell

"It is the true nature of mankind to learn from mistakes, not from example."
-Fred Hoyle

"There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true."
-Sir Winston Churchill

"This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. "
-George Bernard Shaw

"Do you think that the things people make fools of themselves about are any less real and true than the things they behave sensibly about? They are more true: they are the only things that are true."
-George Bernard Shaw

"This is the true joy in life - being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one..."
-George Bernard Shaw

"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing."
-Socrates

"True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing."
-Socrates