T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“The true wealth of a nation lies not in it's gold or silver but in it's learning, wisdom and in the uprightness of its sons.”
“The true wealth of a state consists in the number of its inhabitants, in their toil and industry.”
“The true wealth of a thinker is in his way of acting before his thoughts”
“The true wealth of the king is not the gold but the love of his people.”
“The True Will is thus both determined by its equations, and free because those equation are simply its own name, spelt out fully.”
“The true Wisdom is in recognizing our own ignorance.”
“The true wisdom is to be always seasonable, and to change with a good grace in changing circumstances.”
Source: The Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson: Novels, Short Stories, Poems, Plays, Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Letters and Essays (Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer, containing Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Kidnapped, Catriona and A Child's Garden of Verses
“The true wisdom of man consists in the knowledge of God the creator and Redeemer.”
Source: God the Redeemer: Institutes of The Christian Religion (Book 2)
“The true wisdom of the philosopher ought to insist in enjoying everything. Yet we apply ourselves to dissecting and destroying everything that is good in itself, that has virtue, albeit the virtue there is in mere illusions. Nature gives us this life like a toy to a weak child. We want to see how it all works; we break everything. There remains in our hands, and before our eyes, stupid and opened too late, the sterile wreckage, fragments that will not again make a whole. The good is so simple.”
“The true word leads; the untrue misleads.”
“The true Word of God is meant to show the world the truth and save them from the lies of the one who hates the truth.”
Source: The Infallible Word of God: 365 Inspirational Quotes
“The true word of God is written in our heart.”
“The true work of a critic is not to make his hearer believe him, but agree with him.”
Source: Notes on Some of the Principal Pictures Exhibited in the Rooms of the Royal Academy, the Old and New Societies of Painters in Water Colours, the Society of British Artists and the French Exhibition
“The true work of art continues to unfold and create within the personality of the spectator. It is a continuous coming into being.”
“The true work of art is always on the human scale. It is essentially the one that says, 'less.”
Source: The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays
“The true work of art is born from the 'artist': a mysterious, enigmatic, and mystical creation. It detaches itself from him, it acquires an autonomous life, becomes a personality, an independent subject, animated with a spiritual breath, the living subject of a real existence of being.”
“The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.”
“The true work of art is the one which the seventh wave of genius throws up the beach where the undertow of time cannot drag it back.”
“The true work of God is all good, since it is existence.”
Source: The Guide for the Perplexed
“The true worth of a man is not to be found in man himself, but in the colours and textures that come alive in others.”
“The true worth of a man is to be measured by the objects he pursues.”
Source: The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius
“The true worth of a race must be measured by the character of its womanhood.”
“The true worth of a soul is revealed as much by the motive it attributes to the actions of others as by its own deeds.”
“The true worth of an experimenter consists in his pursuing not only what he seeks in his experiment, but also what he did not seek.”
“The true writer has nothing to say. What counts is the way he says it.”
“The true writer must write not the acceptable but the true.”
Source: Bambi vs. Godzilla: On the Nature, Purpose, and Practice of the Movie Business
“The true writer, the born writer, will scribble words on scraps of litter, the back of a bus tickets, on the wall of a cell.”
“the true Zürich is the city of Zwingli, Protestant work ethics and endless money that flows through the streets lubricating its more than well-functioning economy. The city of banking, reinsurance, assent management and home to way too many corporate & tax lawyers.”
Source: 2017: Our Summer of Reunions: Braai Seasons with Howl Gang (Howl Gang Legend)
“The true'to put it very briefly, is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as 'the right' is only the expedient in the way of our behaving.”
“The true, or higher part of the self is always seeking the state that mystics talk about, the state in which we are filled with a universal love and a peaceful euphoria.”
“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.”
Source: Goethe on Art
“The true, the genuine worship is when man, through his spirit, attains to friendship and intimacy with God. True and genuine worship is not to come to a certain place; it is not to go through a certain ritual or liturgy; it is not even to bring certain gifts. True worship is when the spirit, the immortal and invisible part of man, speaks to and meets with God, who is immortal and invisible.”
Source: The Gospel of John
“The true, unacknowledged purpose of capital punishment is to inspire fear and awe -- fear and awe of the State.”
Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness
“The True-GNU philosophy is more extreme than I care for, but it certainly laid a foundation for the current scene, as well as providing real software.”
“The truer the facts the better the fiction.”
Source: A Room of One's Own: And Three Guineas
“The truest and greatest Poetry, (while subtly and necessarily always rhythmic, and distinguishable easily enough) can never again, in the English language, be express'd in arbitrary and rhyming metre, any more than the greatest eloquence, or the truest power and passion.”
Source: Specimen Days & Collect
“The truest art I would strive for in any work would be to give the page the same qualities as earth: weather would land on it harshly; light would elucidate the most difficult truths; wind would sweep away obtuse padding.”
Source: The solace of open spaces
“The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.”
Source: The genuine poetical remains of Samuel Butler, with notes by R. Thyer. With a selection from the author's Characters in prose
“The truest communication with God is absolute, total silence; there is not a single word in existence that can convey this communication.”
Source: The Path to No-Self: Life at the Center
“The truest comparison we can make of love is to liken it to a fever; we have no more power over the one than the other, either as to its violence or duration.”
“The truest conquest must be carried in the mind and not in causing more pain to another living being.”
Source: Destiny of Liberty
“The truest definition of evil is that which represents it as something contrary to nature; evil is evil because it is unnatural; a vine which should bear olive-berries, an eye to which blue seems yellow, would be diseased; an unnatural mother, an unnatural son, an unnatural act, are the strongest terms of condemnation.”
Source: Sermons Preached at Trinity Chapel, Brighton: Third Series
“The truest end of life is to know the life that never ends.”
Source: Fruits of solitude in reflections and maxims relating to the conduct of human life: Also, his advice to his children relating to their civil and religious conduct, to which are added extracts from the writings of William Law & Judge Hale; with a
“The truest experience of life is when we dream awake.”
“The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.”
Source: America dances
“The truest family is the family of faith.”
“The truest form of any form of revolutionary left, whatever you want to call it, was Jack Kerouac, E.E. Cummings, and Allan Ginsberg's period. Excuse me but that was where it was at. The hippies, I'm afraid, don't know what's happening.”
“The truest form of beauty lies within us, emanating from the depths of our souls and shining through our eyes. It is not something that can be purchased or attained through physical means, but rather it is a reflection of how we feel on the inside. When we are happy, content, and at peace with ourselves, that inner beauty radiates outwards, illuminating our entire being. It is a beacon of light, drawing others in and making them feel the same sense of warmth and joy. It is in these moments that we truly radiate beauty, and we become a shining example for others to follow.”
“The truest form of love is where you are able to put your own needs aside to do what is best for the one you love. If you could know where I am now and if you love as you say you do, you would never ever wish me back from the love and the comfort and the bliss of where I am and where I wait for you.”
Source: Jack McAfghan: Return from Rainbow Bridge: A Dog's Afterlife Story of Loss, Love and Renewal
“The truest friends are usually the ones telling you what you don't want to hear.”
Source: Tweet Inspiration: Faith in 140 Characters (or Less)