T Quotes
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“The true fisherman approaches the first day of fishing season with all the sense of wonder and awe of a child approaching Christmas.”
“The true focus of revolutionary change is never merely the oppressive situations that we seek to escape, but that piece of the oppressor which is planted deep within each of us.”
“The true follower of Christ will not ask, "If I embrace this truth, what will it cost me?" Rather he will say, "This is truth. God help me to walk in it, let come what may!"”
“The true forgiver will always look into your eyes.”
“The true form of worship is self-surrender.”
“The true forms of government, therefore, are those in which the one, or the few, or the many, govern with a view to the common interest; but governments which rule with a view to the private interest, whether of the one or of the few, or of the many, are perversions. For the members of a state, if they are truly citizens, ought to participate in its advantages.”
Source: Aristotle: The Politics and the Constitution of Athens
“The true foundation of all culture is the knowledge and understanding of water.”
Source: The Energy Evolution – Harnessing Free Energy from Nature: Volume 4 of Renowned Environmentalist Viktor Schauberger’s Eco-Technology Series
“The true foundation of republican government is the equal right of every citizen in his person and property and in their management.”
Source: The portable Thomas Jefferson
“The true foundation of theology is to ascertain the character of God. It is by the aid of Statistics that law in the social sphere can be ascertained and codified, and certain aspects of the character of God thereby revealed. The study of statistics is thus a religious service.”
“The true fountains of evidence [are] the head and heart of every rational and honest man. It is there nature has written her moral laws, and where every man may read them for himself.”
Source: The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, contin. Reports and opinions while Secretary of State
“The true France is a multicultural France. Where someone is appointed minister not because she is a woman but because she is competent. And not because she is from a visible minority. I am against positive discrimination. Someone can be intelligent and black, and someone can be an imbecile and white.”
“The true free-will ain't a matter of choosing one of many choices...
but of creating variety of options, then deciding the best choice of all.”
Source: Master of Stupidity
“The true friend is born when we die. When we meet them, we will tell them: you came back... I always knew what you were and what you are.”
“The true friend of property, the true conservative, is he who insists that property shall be the servant and not the master of the commonwealth; who insists that the creature of man’s making shall be the servant and not the master of the man who made it. The citizens of the United States must effectively control the mighty commercial forces which they have called into being. There can be no effective control of corporations while their political activity remains. To put an end to it will be neither a short nor an easy task, but it can be done.”
Source: Letters and Speeches
“The true friend of the people should see that they be not too poor, for extreme poverty lowers the character of the democracy.”
Source: Aristotle: The Politics and the Constitution of Athens
“The true friend of truth and good loves them under all forms, but he loves them most under the most simple form.”
“The true friends of the people are neither revolutionaries, nor innovators, but traditionalists.”
“The true fruit of this century has little interest in coming to living-terms with innovations; it just greedily grabs them all as they come along. Only when it encounters something really big does it become aware of a social problem at all, and then, rather than make concessions, it yammers for the impossibly easy way out, uninvention, suppression”
Source: The Midwich cuckoos
“The true fruit of travel is perhaps the feeling of being nearly everywhere at home.”
“The true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and no other task is of any consequence.”
Source: The selected essays of Cyril Connolly
“The true function of art is to criticize, embellish and edit nature… the artist is a sort of impassioned proof-reader, blue penciling the bad spelling of God.”
“The true function of logic ... as applied to matters of experience ... is analytic rather than constructive; taken a priori, it shows the possibility of hitherto unsuspected alternatives more often than the impossibility of alternatives which seemed prima facie possible. Thus, while it liberates imagination as to what the world may be, it refuses to legislate as to what the world is”
Source: Our Knowledge of the External World
“The true function of philosophy is to educate us in the principles of reasoning and not to put an end to further reasoning by the introduction of fixed conclusions.”
“The true gardener then brushes over the ground with slow and gentle hand, to liberate a space for breath round some favorites; but he is not thinking about destruction except incidentally. It is only the amateur like myself who becomes obsessed and rejoices with a sadistic pleasure in weeds that are big and bad enough to pull, and at last, almost forgetting the flowers altogether, turns into a Reformer.”
“The true gardener, like an artist, is never satisfied.”
“The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction.”
“The true genius of a great manager is his or her ability to individualize. A great manager is one who understands how to trip each person's trigger.”
“The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.”
“The true genius shudders at incompleteness — imperfection — and usually prefers silence to saying the something which is not everything that should be said.”
Source: Marginalia
“The true genius shudders at incompleteness.”
Source: The Works of Edgar Allan Poe
“The true gentleman does not preach what he practices till he has practiced what he preaches.”
“The true gentleman is subtly poised between an inner tact and an outer defense.”
“The true goal of Christian unity is world evangelization.”
Source: A Force in the Earth: The Move of the Holy Spirit in World Evangelization
“The true God exists, but outside our minds.”
“The true god has no beginning and has no end, it was not begotten and cannot beget, it cannot die and resurrect. He is responsible of everything good and evil and he is the sustainer of life. If he can save he saves all without distinction”
Source: Pearls Of Eternity
“The true God He has extension, and form, and dimensions. He occupies space; has a body, parts, and passions; can go from place to place. He can eat, drink, and talk”
Source: The Kingdom of God, part 1
“The true God is not a form idealized; he/she/it is real and therefore, by definition, imperfect; only an abstraction can be free of flaws. And since God is imperfect, there will be suffering.... There is no perfect God. And your suffering requires no more explanation than that unavoidable imperfection.”
“The true God, the mighty God, is the God of ideas.”
“The true gospel does not conceal the truth; instead, it empowers us to break free from what silver and gold cannot redeem.”
“The true gospel is a call to self-denial. It is not a call to self-fulfillment.”
Source: Hard to Believe: The High Cost and Infinite Value of Following Jesus
“The true gospel is radically exclusive. Jesus is not a way; He is the way, and all other ways are no way at all. If Christianity would only move one small step toward a more tolerant ecumenicalism and exchange the definite article the for the indefinite article a, the scandal would be over, and the world and Christianity could become friends. However, whenever this occurs, Christianity ceases to be Christianity, Christ is denied, and the world is without a Savior.”
“The true gospel is radically exclusive. Jesus is not a way; he is the way, and all other ways are no way at all... We live in an age of humanism - over the last several decades, man has fought to purge God from his conscience and culture. He has managed to make himself the center of all things.”
“The true Gospel of Jesus Christ is a revelation of how God has taken sinful man and made him a new creature and imparted to him a perfect righteousness.”
“The true gospel of Jesus Christ never led to bigotry. It never led to self-righteousn ess. It never led to arrogance. The true gospel of Jesus Christ leads to brotherhood, to friendship, to appreciation of others, to respect and kindness and love”
“The true gospel stands in clear contrast to the false teachings that abound, calling sinners to repentance and faith in Christ's finished work. Those who propagate error face a grave accountability before God unless they turn from their ways. Genuine repentance would be marked by a willingness to abandon false doctrine, close down misleading ministries, and humbly submit to biblical authority. True transformation involves surrendering to the teachings of Scripture and aligning one's life with the truth of the Gospel. Without this radical change, their ministries remain a stumbling block to the flock and a discredit to the name of Christ. Only a return to sound doctrine and a life reflecting the fruit of repentance can restore integrity and honor to their witness.”
“The true gospelstands before the throne of God declaring, 'Jesus did it all.'”
“The true grandeur of humanity is in moral elevation, sustained, enlightened and decorated by the intellect of man”
Source: Orations and Speeches [1845-1850]
“The true greatness of a nation lies in its character, not in its economic or military power.”
“The true greatness of nations is in those qualities which constitute the greatness of the individual.”
Source: The True Grandeur of Nations: An Oration Delivered Before the Authorities of the City of Boston, July 4, 1845
“The true grotesque being the expression of the repose or play of a serious mind, there is a false grotesque opposed to it, which is the result of the full exertion of a frivolous one.”
Source: The Stones of Venice