Its True Quotes

#1. The most extensive ideas that a finite mind can frame about divine love, are infinitely below its true nature.

Arthur W. Pink

#2. A fact acquires its true and full value only through the idea which is developed from it.

Justus Von Liebig

#3. Did you know that mako shark fetuses eat each other in the womb? ... Its true. Only cannibal fetuses survive to be born. Can you imagine if people were like that?

Laini Taylor

#4. It is critical that writers who embrace the light of Christ's redemptive love characterize the darkness arrayed against us in a way that is consistent with its true nature.

Ted Dekker

#5. I hold that all the evil we know on earth finds in this violence done to love its true and legitimate birth.

George Arnold

#6. Art is not documentary. It may incidentally serve that function in its own way but its true effort is to open to us dimensions of the spirit of the self that normally lie smothered under the weight of living.

Jeanette Winterson

#7. As long as men will not be freed from their errors and delusions, humanity will not be able to go towards ("marcher vers", Fr.) the accomplishment of its true destinies.

African Spir

#8. This is the paradox of the power of literature: it seems that only when it is persecuted does it show its true powers, challenging authority, whereas in our permissive society it feels that it is being used merely to create the occasional pleasing contrast to the general ballooning of verbiage.

Italo Calvino

#9. Wit is its own remedy. Liberty and commerce bring it to its true standard. The only danger is the laying an embargo. The same thing happens here as in the case of trade: impositions and restrictions reduce it to a low ebb; nothing is so advantageous to it as a free port.

Anthony Ashley Cooper

#10. I do know that throughout history, all paper money has eventually come back to its true value, which is zero.

Robert Kiyosaki

#11. I sat there afraid that I might discover that the world around me is not real. then i thought: wait. i need fear that only if its true, and if it is, i must consider that while this may be bad, worse than that is living in a world that is only real because i am a coward.

Philip K. Jason

#12. - the longer you silence a violin, the harder it is for it to find its true voice again.

Alexandra Bracken

#13. A customized life is a life lived in its true essence.

Ogwo David Emenike

#14. Cupidity ... takes created things for ends in themselves, which they are not. The will that seeks rest in creatures for their own sake stops on the way to its true end, terminates in a value which does not exist, and thus frustrates all its deepest capacities for happiness and peace.

Thomas Merton

#15. Mankind may amuse themselves with theoretic systems of liberty ... but we can only discern its true value by the practical and wretched effects of slavery.

Mercy Otis Warren

#16. Rocket science has been mythologized all out of proportion to its true difficulty.

John Carmack

#17. Many of the men who had come to the wilderness to practice religion appeared to have forgotten its true nature.

Ellen Glasgow

#18. Samsara is the mind turned outwardly, lost in its projections. Nirvana is the mind turned inwardly, recognizing its true nature.

Sogyal Rinpoche

#19. The strange case of Billy Biswas had at last been disposed of. It had been disposed of in the only manner that a humdrum society knows of disposing its rebels, its seers, its true lovers.

Arun Joshi

#20. I have not been that wise. Health I have taken for granted. Love I have demanded, perhaps too much and too often. As for money, I have only realized its true worth when I didn't have it.

Hedy Lamarr

#21. To practice nonviolence in mundane matters is to know its true value.

Mahatma Gandhi

#22. Vice, in its true light, is so deformed, that it shocks us at first sight; and would hardly ever seduce us, if it did not at first wear the mask of some virtue.

Lord Chesterfield

#23. How do you recognize the face of love?
Can love happen in an instant, or can it only grow slowly, bolstered by the course of time? Is it possible that love might be both? A thing that takes forever to reach its true conclusion, made possible by what occurs in no more than the blink of an eye?

Cameron Dokey

#24. I enjoy vanity . But I can't stick to any of that lifestyle for too long because, when its true colors come out, it's empty and cold and soulless.

Michelle Rodriguez

#25. A nation's poets are its true owners; and by the stroke of the pen they convey the title-deeds of its real possessions to strangers and aliens.

George Edward Woodberry

#26. The kind uncles and aunts of the race are more esteemed than its true spiritual fathers and mothers.

Henry David Thoreau

#27. Degas is one of the very few painters who have given the floor its true importance.

Paul Valery

#28. The system wears a mask of civility, yet will quickly reveal its true nature in the form of magnificently-purposed violence when needed.

Bryant McGill

#29. Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#30. Don't let your character change color with your environment. Find out who you are and let it stay its true color.

Rachel Scott

#31. The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

Alexander Pope

#32. Death was a lens that would reveal things as they really were: what was important would assume its true importance; what was unimportant would recede into the shadows.

Robert Hellenga

#33. They say shyness is a form of egotism, and you are only shy because you care too much about what people think of you. And maybe its true, maybe I am just an egotist.

Mika.

#34. Evil and Good are things in their own essebce and not made good or evil by the giver. but if he gives you good so cal him; if evil springs from him, do not name it mine till ye know better its true fount
-Lucifer

George Gordon Byron

#35. Literature is a love that won't let you down or show its true colors after some time goes by. You know what it's about from the moment you read it. In a lot of ways it's a perfect love.

Jason E. Hodges

#36. When you swear to God, its true ... right now God is watching and saying, this is true.

Dane Cook

#37. [I provoke] the system [to] show its true face ... so that through its own acts of terrorism ... the masses will rise against it.

Ulrike Meinhof

#38. The greatest of characters, no doubt, would be he, who, free of all trifling accidental helps, could see objects through one grand immutable medium, always at hand, and proof against illusion and time, reflecting every object in its true shape and colour through all the fluctuation of things.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

#39. The first step into the realm of giving is ... not manward but Godward: an utter yielding of our best. So long as our idea of surrender is limited to the renouncing of unlawful things, we have never grasped its true meaning: that is not worthy of the name for 'no polluted thing' can be offered.

Lilias Trotter

#40. Maybe things that we turn our backs to arnt rlly there, but its true that they will be there when we turn back around.

Brandon Anthony Lukstein

#41. The accepted etymology of the word religion was that it came from religere, meaning "to bind together," but Cicero had said its true root was relegere, "to reread." The truth was, she liked both answers.

James S.A. Corey

#42. Once you have courage to look upon evil, seeing it for what it is and naming it by its true name, it is powerless against you, and you can destroy it.

Lloyd Alexander

#43. Death is our constant companion, and it is death that gives each person's life its true meaning.

Paulo Coelho

#44. What is impossible to me as an imitator of Christ, becomes perfectly natural as a participant of Christ. It is Only when Christ nullifies the force of my inherent "self' life," and communicates to me a Divine life, that Christian living in its true sense, is at all possible for me.

F. Huegel

#45. Time is like the fan, if you keep enjoying its comfortable air without using it distinctively, you shall surely feel its true and real hotness when it stops its cool and refreshing air

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#46. It is very pious to say and prudent to affirm that the holy Bible can never speak untruth
whenever its true meaning is understood. But I believe nobody will deny that it is often very abstruse, and may say things which are quite different from wha.

Galileo Galilei

#47. The enthusiasm you have for a new idea is not an accurate indicator of its true worth.

Jason Fried

#48. If government knew how, I should like to see it check, not multiply, the population. When it reaches its true law of action, every man that is born will be hailed as essential.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#49. Boredom has a bad rap. Its true character reveals you are deep inside your comfort zone. Boredom is a docent beckoning toward the edges of a labyrinth.

Gina Greenlee

#50. Get correct views of life, and learn to see the world in its true light. It will enable you to live pleasantly, to do good, and, when summoned away, to leave without regret.

Robert E.Lee

#51. When its true, when it's right, love can give you the kind of joy that you can't get from any other experience.

James Patterson

#52. Men are seldom underrated; the mercury in a man finds its true level in the eyes of the world just as certainly as it does in the glass of a thermometer.

Josh Billings

#53. Its true that love doesn't come easily.
Its equally hard to just let it go.
Ironically, its just not in your hand.

Heenashree Khandelwal

#54. Humanity may endure the loss of everything; all its possessions may be turned away without infringing its true dignity - all but the possibility of improvement.

Johann Gottlieb Fichte

#55. The hardness of a diamond is part of its usefulness, but its true value is in the light that shines through it.

B.K.S. Iyengar

#56. So, be slow if you must, but let
the heart still play its true part.
Love still as once you loved, deeply
and without patience. Let God and the world
know you are grateful.That the gift has been given.

Mary Oliver

#57. Success is a possibility and a reality to its true seeker.

Sunday Adelaja

#58. The cross is like a walnut whose outer rind is bitter, but the inner kernel is pleasant and invigorating. So the cross does not offer any charm of outward appearance, but to the cross-bearer its true character is revealed, and he finds in it the choicest sweets of spiritual peace.

Sadhu Sundar Singh

#59. Hold every moment sacred. Give each clarity and meaning, each the weight of thine awareness, each its true and due fulfillment. - Thomas Mann, The Beloved Returns

Dean Koontz

#60. For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential - the imagination.

Lawrence Durrell

#61. The darkest light is one which is only registered by those who understand its true obscurity.

Suzanne Steele

#62. But in all His dealings with His creatures God has maintained the principles of righteousness by revealing sin in its true character-by demonstrating that its sure result is misery and death.

Ellen G. White

#63. Years ago, in an old notebook, I wrote: "One of Julian's most attractive qualities is his inability to see anyone, or anything, in its true light." And under it, in a different ink, "maybe one of my most attractive qualities, as well(?)" -Richard

Donna Tartt

#64. I don't have anything left. My strength is pouring out of me just as my blood is. I've been in a death-storm countless times before. Is this death in its true form?

Nobuhiro Watsuki

#65. Each flitch, each board, each plank can have only one ideal use. The woodworker, applying a thousand skills, must find that ideal use and then shape the wood to realize its true potential.

George Nakashima

#66. Hope is a settled state of mind, in which we see the world in its true light, and look forward to our final homecoming in heaven.

Alister E. McGrath

#67. Religion in its true sense is the most joyous thing the human soul can know, and when the real religion is realized, we will find it to be an agent of peace, of joy, and of happiness, and never an agent of gloomy, long-faced sadness.

Ralph Waldo Trine

#68. Upon a given body to generate and superinduce a new nature or new natures is the work and aim of human power. To discover the Form of a given nature, or its true difference, or its causal nature, or fount of its emanation ... this is the work and aim of human knowledge.

Francis Bacon

#69. The home only fulfills its true purpose when it is God-controlled. Leave Jesus Christ out of your home and it loses its meaning. But take Christ into your heart and the life of your family, and He will transform your home.

Billy Graham

#70. The dove, as it flies in the sun, seems simply to sparkle like silver, but only one who has been able to wait at length to discover its hidden face will see its true gold or, rather, the color of a shining orange.

Umberto Eco

#71. God cannot be drawn or sculpted. The moment it is drawn, it is no longer God; the moment it is sculpted, God becomes a fake. The moment it is expressed, its divinity peels away and recedes from its true nature.

Otsuichi

#72. As laughter is one way of appraising the serious, so the comic must be taken seriously if it is to be rated at its true value. No one understands a joke by laughing at it; he laughs at it because he understands it.

James Walsh

#73. Searching my heart for its true sorrow, This is the thing I find to be: That I am weary of words and people, Sick of the city, wanting the sea.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

#74. I suppose life is what you believe it to be. Perhaps believing in life is its true nature.

R.W. Erskine

#75. The beauty or ugliness of a character lay not only in its achievements, but in its aims and impulses; its true history lay, not among things done, but among things willed.

Thomas Hardy

#76. It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars.

Arthur C. Clarke

#77. Flexibility in a society allows change, so that all its members have the space to discover their true selves and grow to their potential. And if every person in a society achieves his true potential, society as a whole also achieves its true potential.

Amish Tripathi

#78. Only by acknowledging the full extent of slavery's full grip on U.S. Society - its intimate connections to present day wealth and power, the depth of its injury to black Americans, the shocking nearness in time of its true end - can we reconcile the paradoxes of current American life.

Douglas A. Blackmon

#79. I'm memorable, its true."
-Magnus, pg.229-

Cassandra Clare

#80. Only love can penetrate all your karmas and resistances and set your heart on fire with the awareness of its true nature.

Gurumayi Chidvilasananda

#81. As long as it is admitted that the law may be diverted from its true purpose
that it may violate property instead of protecting it
then everyone will want to participate in making the law, either to protect himself against plunder or to use it for plunder.

Frederic Bastiat

#82. Its true. Im a simple person. Some people tend to live from trauma to trauma, and that energizes them. I have a hectic schedule, but my mind seeks simplicity - like being in nature, a long bike ride, or sitting on the back porch.

Amy Grant

#83. I was bashing Israel in the past because nobody else was exposing its true record. Many people are doing it now, so I switched hats from a critic of Israel to a diplomat who wants to resolve the conflict. I have not changed, but I think the spectrum has moved.

Norman Finkelstein

#84. Start with a blank surface. It doesn't have to be paper or canvas, but I feel it should be white. We call it white because we need a word, but its true name is nothing. Black is the absence of light, but white is the absence of memory, the color of can't remember.

Stephen King

#85. And the Divine Nature can change the past. Nothing is yet in its true form.

C.S. Lewis

#86. All peoples are struggling to blast a way through the industrial monopoly of races and nations, but the Negro as a whole has failed to grasp its true significance and seems to delight in filling only that place created for him by the white man.

Marcus Garvey

#87. Sometimes you have to lie. One often has to distort a thing to catch its true spirit.

Robert J. Flaherty

#88. There may sometimes be ungenerous attempts to keep a young man down; and they will succeed, too, if he allows his mind to be diverted from its true channel to brood over the attempted injury.

Abraham Lincoln

#89. Before seeking the true value of things, you must first define its true meaning.

Adele Mandez

#90. What a beautiful testament to the creative spirit and its true motives, to creative contribution coming from a place of purpose rather than a hunger for profit.

Leonard Cohen

#91. My greatest fear is saying I" I love you", even if its true. Im scare to say it because it sounds so final, like a goodbye. But im not saying goodbye, not ever. Maybe you could just try to stay longer, for me, because I don't know if I can be me without you.

Julie Cross

#92. If fear is the great enemy of intimacy, love is its true friend.

Henri Nouwen

#93. If my fellow Americans could adopt even a fraction of the French attitude about food and life (don't worry, you don't have to sign on to the politics, too), managing weight would cease to be a terror, an obsession, and reveal its true nature as part of the art of living.

Mireille Guiliano

#94. Children, who play life, discern its true law and relations more clearly than men, who fail to live it worthily, but who think that they are wiser by experience, that is, by failure.

Henry David Thoreau

#95. Money can give the soul comfort, but it can never buy true, real and eternal life in Christ Jesus for the soul, and though it can make the soul lively, it can never guarantee its true eternal life in Christ!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#96. Conversation in its true meaning isn't all wagging the tongue; sometimes it is a deeply shared silence.

Robertson Davies

#97. Only with the idea (which has become rare today) that there is a revealed truth that is above all experience, can this occult realm be enlightened, its true nature recognized and a discernment made between this lower realm and the higher realm of heaven.

Seraphim Rose

#98. In overstepping our limitations, in touching the extreme boundaries of man's world, we have come to know something of its true splendor,

Maurice Herzog

#99. Everything one sees is merely a projection of what one does not see, its true nature and substance.

Fernando Sabino

#100. He told her that every one of her enemies, all the masters and overseers of her suffering, would be punished, if not in this world then the next, for justice may be slow and invisible, but it always renders its true verdict in the end.

Colson Whitehead