T Quotes
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“The true teacher of love is the heart. The heart is very, very wise. It makes mistakes from time to time, but it has a wisdom all of its own.”
“The true teachers are those who help us think for ourselves.”
“The true terrorists of our world do not meet at the docks at midnight, or scream "Allahu Akbar" before some violent action. The true terrorists of our world wear 5000 dollar suits and work in the highest positions of finance, government and business.”
“The true test is, whether the object be of a local character, and local use; or, whether it be of general benefit to the states. If it be purely local, congress cannot constitutionally appropriate money for the object. But, if the benefit be general, it matters not, whether in point of locality it be in one state, or several; whether it be of large, or of small extent.”
Source: Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States: With a Preliminary Review of the Constitutional History of the Colonies and States, Before the Adoption of the Constitution
“The true test of a brilliant theory [is] what first is thought to be wrong is later shown to be obvious.”
“The true test of a father’s legacy is that it rests in every life except his own, for to leave a true legacy we must divest ourselves of everything so that the investment in our families can be everything.”
“The true test of a high altitude researcher is how well they can recover from the long term effects of high altitude disease.”
“The true test of a man's spirituality is not his ability to speak, as we are apt to think, but rather his ability to bridle his tongue.”
“The true test of a man’s character is what he does when no one is watching.”
“The true test of a person's character is how they treat the people in life that they don't need.”
“The true test of a radiation researcher is how well they can recover from the long term effects of radiation sickness.”
“The true test of all the arts is not solely whether the production is a true copy of nature, but whether it answers the end of art, which is to produce a pleasing effect upon the mind.”
Source: The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds: Containing His Discourses, Idlers, A Journey to Flanders and Holland, and His Commentary on Du Fresnoy's Art of Painting; to which is Prefixed an Account of the Life and Writings of the Author by Edward Malone
“The true test of any scholar's work is not what his contemporaries say, but what happens to his work in the next 25 or 50 years.”
“The true test of any scholar's work is not what his contemporaries say, but what happens to his work in the next 25 or 50 years. And the thing that I will really be proud of is if some of the work I have done is still cited in the text books long after I am gone.”
“The true test of anyone's worth as a living creature is how much he can utilize what he has.”
Source: The Devil's Notebook
“The true test of character is not how you act when things are going well, but how you handle yourself in times of crisis.”
Source: Rainbow Six
“The true test of character is to live win-win even when promoted to positions where win-lose is possible.”
“The true test of civilization is not the census, nor the size of cities, nor the crops - no, but the kind of man the country turns out.”
Source: The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude
“The true test of courage is to be afraid and to go ahead and do it anyway - to be scared, is to have your knees knocking, but to walk on in there anyway.”
Source: Oprah Winfrey speaks: insight from the world's most influential voice
“The true test of faith is how we treat those who can do nothing for us in return.”
“The true test of humility is whether you can say grace before eating crow.”
“The true test of innovation is whether it nurtures the community’s collective wellbeing.”
“The true test of integrity doesn't come when your enemies laugh at you, but when your friends do.”
Source: Ageless Wisdom: A Treasury of Quotes to Motivate & Inspire
“The true test of liberty is the right to test it, the right to question it, the right to speak to my neighbors, to grab them by the shoulders and look into their eyes and ask, “Are we free?” I have thought that if we are free, the answer cannot hurt us. And if we are not free, must we not hear the answer?”
Source: Give Me Liberty: Freeing Ourselves in the Twenty-First Century
“The true test of love lies in its ability to endure the longing”
Source: Benign Flame: Saga of Love
“The true test of maturity is not how old a person is but how he reacts to awakening in the mid-town area in his shorts.”
Source: The Insanity Defense: The Complete Prose
“The true test of one's commitment to liberty and private property rights doesn't come when we permit people to be free to do those voluntary things with which we agree. The true test comes when we permit people to be free to do those voluntary things with which we disagree.”
Source: More Liberty Means Less Government: Our Founders Knew This Well
“The true test of our worldview is what we find entertaining.”
“The true test of power is to disapprove those who admire you when they are wrong and to admire those who dislike you when they are right.”
Source: Wealth of Words
“The true test of relationships is not only how loyal someone is when we fail, but how thrilled they are when we succeed.”
“The true test of the American ideal is whether we're able to recognize our failings and then rise together to meet the challenges of our time. Whether we allow ourselves to be shaped by events and history, or whether we act to shape them. Whether chance of birth or circumstance decides life's big winners and losers, or whether we build a community where, at the very least, everyone has a chance to work hard, get ahead, and reach their dreams.”
“The true theater, because it moves and makes use of living instruments, continues to stir up shadows where life has never ceased to grope its way.”
Source: The Theater and Its Double
“The true theory of our Constitution is surely the wisest and best, that the states are independent as to everything within themselves and united as to everything respecting foreign nations. Let the general government be reduced to foreign concerns only.”
Source: The Works of Thomas Jefferson, Vol. IX (in 12 Volumes)
“The true theory of our Constitution is surely the wisest and best, that the States are independent as to everything within themselves, and united as to everything respecting foreign affairs. Let the General Government be reduced to foreign concerns only, and let our affairs be disentangled from those of all other nations, except as to commerce, which the merchants will manage the better, the more they are left free to manage for themselves, and our General Government may be reduced to a very simple organization, and a very inexpensive one; a few plain duties to be performed by a few servants.”
Source: The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, contin
“The true thrift is always to spend on the higher plane; to invest and invest, with keener avarice, that he may spend in spiritualcreation, and not in augmenting animal existence. Nor is the man enriched, in repeating the old experiments of animal sensation; nor unless through new powers and ascending pleasures he knows himself by the actual experience of higher good to be already on the way to the highest.”
Source: The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations
“The true touchstone of wit is the impromptu.”
“The true tragedy in most people’s lives is that they are far better than they imagine themselves to be and, as a result, end up being much less than they might be.”
Source: Zen Mentoring: Forty Meditations
“The true training is the test that makes a man trust in a Divine Being.”
“The true traveler is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time.”
“The true traveler never arrives.”
“The true traveller is the one urged to move about for physical, aesthetic, intellectual as well as spiritual reasons.”
“The true treasure lies within. It is the underlying theme of the songs we sing, the shows we watch and the books we read. It is woven into the Psalms of the Bible, the ballads of the Beatles and practically every Bollywood film ever made. What is that treasure? Love. Love is the nature of the Divine.”
“The true triumph of reason is that it enables us to get along with those who do not possess it.”
“The true twin flame is not outside of you. It is the light you carry within. Strike a match in your own heart and never let it go out. Others may ignite it in countless ways, through both positive and negative experiences, but the flame itself is yours.”
Source: Consciousness Rising
“The true unconscious is the well-head, the fountain of real motivity. The sex of which Adam and Eve became conscious derived fromthe very God who bade them be not conscious of it.”
Source: D. H. Lawrence The Dover Reader
“The true university of these days is a collection of books.”
“The true use of art is, first, to cultivate the artist's own spiritual nature.”
Source: Inness Landscapes
“The true use of history, whether civil or military, is not to make man clever for the next time, it is to make him wise forever.”
“The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them.”
“The true vagrant is the only king above all comparison.”