T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“To teach superstitions as truth is a most terrible thing.”
“To teach vain Wits that Science little known,
T' admire Superior Sense, and doubt their own!”
“To teach virtue we must educate the emotions, and this means learning "what to feel" in the various circumstances that prompt them.”
“to teach without zest is a crime.”
“To teach you need books, to educate you need heart.”
Source: Guru with Guitar
“To teach your child to only be a Muslim in Muslim spaces or only a Christian in Christian spaces means in a way that you're teaching them a religious identity that is relevant to only a very small part of their lives, because the vast majority of their lives in the 21st century are going to be lived in interaction with others.”
“To teachers, education is just a duty, but to students, it's their right.”
Source: Wealth of Words
“To tear ourselves away from the everyday, from habit, from mental laziness which hides from us the strangeness of reality, we must receive something like a real bludgeon blow.”
“To televisionize any serious problem, the program directors face the task of making the message 'go down smooth' until the audience is delivered to the commercial.”
“To tell a falsehood is like the cut of a saber: for though the wound may heal, the scar of it will remain.”
“To tell a ghost story means being willing to be haunted.”
“To tell a lie in cowardice, to tell a lie for gain, or to avoid deserved punishment--are all the blackest of black lies.”
Source: Children are people: how to understand and guide your children
“To tell a lie is to recognize that all truths are half-truths. There can be no pure truth or lie, they are identical twins who cannot be separated.”
“To tell a lie is to risk being caught out and there’s excitement in avoiding traps: it was an aspect of my childhood I was perhaps averse to relinquishing.”
Source: The Memory Tree
“To tell a love story true, a romance writer must bare hearts, souls and bodies.”
“To tell a story is in some part to tell a lie, isn't it?”
Source: The Knight and the Moth
“To tell a strong story with real taste of an epic tragedy needs great actors.”
“To tell a tale so great as to tear the soul inside out"
Sara Niles, Torn From the Inside Out”
Source: Torn From the Inside Out
“To tell a woman not to talk too much was like telling Jesse James not to carry a gun, or a hen not to cackle.”
Source: The Autobiography of Malcolm X
“To tell a woman who is forty, "You look like sixteen," is boloney. The blarney way of saying it is "Tell me how old you are, I should like to know at what age women are the most beautiful.”
“To tell about a drunken muzhik's beating his wife is incomparably harder than to compose a whole tract about the 'woman question.'”
“To tell an adult exactly what steps to take towards his salvation was apt to weaken him. It deprived him of his inalienable right to trial and error which was tonic to the character.”
“To tell deliberate lies while genuinely believing in them, to forget any fact that has become inconvenient, and then, when it becomes necessary again, to draw it back from oblivious for just so long as it is needed, to deny the existence of objective reality and all the while to take account of the reality which one denies – al this is indispensably necessary. Even in using the word doublethink it is necessary to exercise doublethink. For by using the word one admits that one is tampering with reality; by a fresh act of (203>204) doublethink one erases this knowledge; and so on indefinitely, with the lie always one leap ahead of the truth.”
Source: 1984
“To tell her that I joined the parachute club was too hard for me. I didn't want to trouble her; besides, I was not completely sure about the success of my new adventure.”
“To tell me my jokes aren’t funny, please flip over your monitor and use the form on the back of this page.”
“To tell men that they cannot help themselves is to fling them into recklessness and despair.”
Source: Short Studies on Great Subjects
“To tell my story, to touch lives.”
Source: War Child: A Child Soldier's Story
“To tell of disappointment and misery, to thicken the darkness of futurity, and perplex the labyrinth of uncertainty, has been always a delicious employment of the poets”
Source: The Lives of the Poets: A Selection
“To tell one comprehensive story of how it has happened that what is is, one which shall hold true, come what may, now-after - a story that whatever comes shall perfectly continue or confirm: such is the ideal motive of religions.”
“To tell ourselves that we can’t change the story of our lives is to errantly assume that we are nothing more than the characters in it verses being the authors of it.”
“To tell someone not to be emotional is to tell them to be dead.”
“To tell stories of the past to children who walk into the future is a task both noble and taxing.”
Source: The Devourers
“To tell the people in the West not to use their cars means that these people may never see another soul for weeks and weeks nor have a way of getting a sick person to a doctor.”
“To tell the truth
days are all the same size
and words aren't much company.”
“To tell the truth I cannot call my childhood bad. In your childhood you can't compare things: one eats carrots, one eats candy, both taste good. As a child you cannot tell the difference.”
“To tell the truth I never had it so good. But I lacked the strength of character to bear such joy.”
Source: Herzog
“To tell the truth is an act of love. To withhold the truth is an act of hate. Or worse, apathy.”
Source: The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win
“To tell the truth is revolutionary.”
Source: The Open Marxism of Antonio Gramsci: Translated and Annotated by Carl Marzani
“To tell the truth is to become beautiful, to begin to love yourself, value yourself. And that's political, in its most profound way.”
“To tell the truth is to become beautiful.”
“To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.”
Source: War and peace: a novel
“To tell the truth, girls are no longer the way they used to be. They play gangsters, nowadays, just like boys. They organize rackets. They plan holdups and practice karate. They will rape defenseless adolescents. They wear pants... Life has become impossible.”
Source: La Maison de Rendez-Vous and Djinn: Two Novels
“To tell the truth, I could beat anybody in the world.”
Source: Bruce Lee Jeet Kune Do: Bruce Lee's Commentaries on the Martial Way
“To tell the truth, I don't read children's books. I'm an adult. I just write them.”
“To tell the truth, I just lost confidence in Joe Hooker.”
“To tell the truth, I never think about a homer. I'm just thinking of the situation and what I've got to do when I go to the plate.”
“To tell the truth, I'd scare me too.”
“To tell the truth, in Pacific 231 I was on the trail of a very abstract and quite ideal concept, by giving the impression of a mathematical acceleration of rhythm, while the movement itself slowed . I first called this piece Mouvement symphonique. On reflection I found that a bit colorless. Suddenly, a rather romantic image crossed my mind, and when the work was finished, I wrote the title Pacific 231, which indicates a locomotive for heavy loads and high speeds (a type unfortunately disappeared, alas, and sacrificed to electric traction).”
“To tell the truth, the chariot was an astonishing sight to behold, because I had polished the steel of my flying house so carefully that it reflected the sunlight on all sides. It was so bright and dazzling that I thought, myself, that I had been carried away in a chariot of fire.”
“To tell the truth, this was one of the few cases in which she had not told him just what she was thinking. Usually, she let him know whatever thoughts happened to come to her, and indeed he never took it amiss if she let slip a word that might pain him, because when all was said and done that was the price one paid for sincerity.”