Top 100 True Things Quotes
#1. Fiction gives us empathy: It puts us inside the minds of other people, gives us the gift of seeing through their eyes. Fiction is a lie that tells us true things, over and over.
Ray Bradbury
#2. All true things must change and only that which changes remains true.
Carl Jung
#3. If you set to work to believe everything, you will tire out the believing-muscles of your mind, and then you'll be so weak you won't be able to believe the simplest true things.
Lewis Carroll
#4. Tell me some true things about fighting.'Tell me you love me.'I love you,' the girl said. 'You can publish it in the Gazzettino if you like. I love your hard, flat body and your strange eyes that frighten me when they become wicked. I love your hand and all your other wounded places.
Ernest Hemingway,
#5. But we must be aware that art cannot be used to show the validity of Christianity; it should rather be the reverse. Christianity is true; things and actions and human endeavor only get their meaning from their relationship to God.
H.R. Rookmaaker
#6. I'll say this, Arik: the old man's warning proved to be true - things are not always what they seem. She was no young lady -"
"If it's the demon you speak of," interjected Rith, as she stepped back into the ruin, Lyssa following after, "she was not even a toothless old hag.
Dennis L. McKiernan
#7. Writers say many true things about their own experiences with publicity and promotion.
Teresa Nielsen Hayden
#8. Fiction is a lie that tells us true things, over and over. I
Ray Bradbury
#9. These are not pretty things, but they are true things.
Cheryl Strayed
#10. The more you say true things, the more you will be respected; the more you will respected, the more you shall feel to be obliged to say even truer things! Every true path at the beginning opens the paths of even greater and stronger truths in the future!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#11. It's as simple as that. Simple and complicated, as most true things are.
David Levithan
#12. I would not have understood that the best way to show people true things is from a direction that they had not imagined the truth coming, nor that the majesty and the magic of belief and dreams could be a vital part of life and of writing.
Neil Gaiman
#13. They came to sit & dangle their feet off the edge of the world & after awhile they forgot everything but the good & true things they would do someday.
Brian Andreas
#14. Sometimes writers say true things about the overall nature of publicity, promotion, and the publishing industry; but alas, not always.
Teresa Nielsen Hayden
#15. I want to believe as many true things and as few false things as possible.
Matt Dillahunty
#17. The best way to show people true things is from a direction that they had not imagined the truth coming.
Neil Gaiman
#18. Well, I don't know," said the Story Girl thoughtfully. "I think there are two kinds of true thing - true things that are, and true things that are not, but might be.
L.M. Montgomery
#19. Occasionally, in times of worry, I've longed to be stylish, but on second thought I say no-just let me be myself-and express rough, yet true things with rough workmanship.
Vincent Van Gogh
#20. What was in the bags?" she asked softly.
"Florida mud," he answered. "That was one of two true things I told you.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#21. Whatever pain and suffering you've experienced in your life has been a blessing at least in this one regard: you now know some true things that you couldn't have learned any other way.
Eric Maisel
#23. There's a lot of true things that happen in our life. I think we see them at the very moment they happen too, then we try to forget about them.
Jonis Agee
#24. The gift of song is just like ... I think music is one of those true things in this world that is universal.
Charles King
#25. They came to sit & dangle their feet off the edge of the world & after awhile they forgot everything but the good & true things they would do someday.
Brian Andreas
#26. I said a lot of true things, the most jarring ones I could, because if you say honest things harshly people look at them. And not at you.
E. Jade Lomax
#27. We must hold fast to the austere but true doctrine as to what really governs politics and saves or destroys states. Having in mind things true, things elevated, things just, things pure, things amiable, things of good report; having these in mind, studying and loving these, is what saves states.
Matthew Arnold
#28. We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.
Hesiod
#29. Things just happen. It was a pathetic logic, but it was, at its core, true. Things happen. We had not wanted them to happen. They had arisen out of the ashes of chance.
Colum McCann
#30. Billy was unconscious for two days after that, and he dreamed millions of things, some of them true. The true things were time-travel.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
#31. It's easier to say true things in the dark. Spider said, "You know what doesn't make sense here?" "Everything?
Neil Gaiman
#32. All of the true things I am about to tell you are shameless lies.
Kurt Vonnegut
#33. Most true things are kind of corny, don't you think? But we make them more sophisticated out of sheer embarrassment.
Michel Faber
#34. Doc still loved true things but he knew that it was not a general love and it could be a very dangerous mistress.
John Steinbeck
#35. I think emotional and mental pain is probably worse than physical pain. I think we don't realize that I have no arms or legs but we all have disabilities of some sort, some fear, some lost, some wishes that didn't come true, things we wish would be better.
Nick Vujicic
#37. Some things are better left in the past. And true things are destined to repeat themselves.
Suzanne Young
#38. Once you get away from wanting to get paid, you can actually say some true things.
Roseanne Barr
#39. I'm in love with you, and I'm not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things.
John Green
#40. Stories may well be lies, but they are good lies that say true things, and which can sometimes pay the rent.
Neil Gaiman
#41. I am doing things that are true to me. The only thing I have a problem with is being labeled.
Johnny Depp
#42. Perhaps, more importantly, I think that most human beings realise only a fraction of the true potential of their minds, so the spiritual or mystical, the things which remain mysterious or unexplained have always drawn me to include them in any scheme for a novel.
Rose Tremain
#43. The man who recognizes the truth of any human relation and neglects the duty involved is not a true man.... A man may be aware of the highest truths of many things, and yet not be a true man, inasmuch as the essentials of manhood are not his aim: he has not come into the flower of his own being.
George MacDonald
#44. One of the most frightening things about your true nerd, for may people, is not that he's socially inept - because everybody's been there - but rather his complete lack of embarrassment about it.
Neal Stephenson
#45. I wanted to tell him that all the awful things that happened in the old world were dead. And the new world, the world we lived in now, the world we were creating, that world would be better. But I didn't say it, because I wasn't sure it was true.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
#46. It is true that I have had heartache and tragedy in my life. These are things none of us avoids. Suffering is the price of being alive.
Judy Collins
#47. We do not want to be told what we know. We do not want to call things by their names, although we're willing to call one another bad ones. We call meanness nobility and hatred honor. The way to make yourself a hero is to make me out a scoundrel. You won't admit that either, but it's true.
Thomas Wolfe
#48. The happening and the telling are very different things. This doesn't mean that the story isn't true, only that I honestly don't know anymore if I really remember it or only remember how to tell it.
Karen Joy Fowler
#49. People say things die in winter, but it isn't true, mostly. They just gather their strength.
Rose Lerner
#50. Writers spend too much time among dead things. I thought that was profound and actually true, that you're trying to pump life into something that is inanimate. You see what a sort of audacious thing it is to move these sort of imaginary people around in a very stylized and patterned world.
Martin Amis
#51. It is a true story, the monster said. Many things that are true feel like a cheat.
Patrick Ness
#52. There are times when I myself no longer know whether I said and did the things I report or whether I dreamed them up. Anyway, I always dream true. If I lie a bit now and then it is mainly in the interest of truth.
Henry Miller
#53. The true call of a Christian is not to do extraordinary things, but to do ordinary things in an extraordinary way.
Dean Stanley
#54. Science-fiction fans are the most loyal fans in the world. It's true. They'll watch things that you actually should give them their money back for
Katee Sackhoff
#55. The true science of martial arts means practicing them in such a way that they will be useful at any time, and to teach them in such a way that they will be useful in all things.
Miyamoto Musashi
#56. The essence of true safety is to observe silence, to look at the end of things and to renounce the world.
Baha'u'llah
#57. Government is contemptuous of true religion when it confiscates the taxes of Caesar to finance the things of God.
Sam Ervin
#58. Let's still be friends (things that are never true in a break up, but you have to say).
Lauren Leto
#59. Before I spoke with people, I did not think of all these things because there was no one to bother to think them for. Now things just come out of my mouth which are true.
Bernard Pomerance
#60. Sometimes things seem too good to be true.
Keke Palmer
#61. I'm not good, Mac. Never have been.'
What-true confession time? my eyes tease. Don't need it.
'I want what I want and I take it.'
Is he warning me? What could he possibly threaten me with now?
'There's nothing I can't live with. Only things I won't live without.
Karen Marie Moning
#62. All philosophies are mental fabrications. There has never been a single doctrine by which one could enter the true essence of things.
Nagarjuna
#63. Simply having the courage to say senseless things made me euphoric. I was free, with no need to seek or to give explanations for what I was doing. This freedom lifted me to the heavens - where greater love, one that forgives everything and never allows you to feel abandoned, once again enveloped me.
Paulo Coelho
#64. What is true is that I have at times earned my own crust of bread, and at other times a friend has given it to me out of the goodness of his heart. I have lived whatever way I could, for better or for worse, taking things just as they came.
Vincent Van Gogh
#65. You assume things, like whatever country has more firepower wins the wars, and that's actually not true at all.
Max Brooks
#66. There are many ways of understanding simple things, but generally the opposite is true for difficult ideas
Miyamoto Musashi
#67. Few things hurt more than doubt creeping into a life of conviction.
Go back to the last sure knowledge you have - the last revelation you know to be true and stand your ground. Stand firm and wait.
The Universe will send you aid and clarity.
Even if you can't see it at first.
Jaime Buckley
#68. All young people worry about things, it's a natural and inevitable part of growing up, and at the age of sixteen my greatest anxiety in life was that I'd never again achieve anything as good, or pure, or noble, or true, as my O-level results.
David Nicholls
#69. The man who loves God with a true heart, and prizes him above all things, sometimes sheds floods of tears at prayer, and has in abundance of favours and spiritual feelings coming upon him with such vehemence, that he is forced to cry out, Lord! let me be quiet!
Philip Neri
#70. I think most people read and re-read the things that they have liked. That's certainly true in my case. I re-read Pound a great deal, I re-read Williams, I re-read Thomas, I re-read the people whom I cam to love when I was at what you might call a formative stage.
James Laughlin
#71. The things you say, the things you don't say, the things you do, or the things you don't do are always sending a loud message to those around you. What kind of a message are you sending? Is it a true reflection of who you are?
Lindsey Rietzsch
#72. The number one reason we don't believe things that are true is because they don't always feel true.
Emily P. Freeman
#73. The purpose of art is to represent the meaning of things. This represents the true reality, not external aspects.
Aristotle.
#74. I fear books; for I have heard it said, and I think it true, that a man who
spends long enough in their company grows at last unmindful of the world outside their covers, and lives finally in a twilight world of fantastic things and places as insubstantial as dreams.
Chris Naylor
#75. I can understand there are things like shadows they need to fix after a shoot, but it's unfair to represent an image of yourself if it's not true. They're gonna see what you look like on film anyway, so why try to cover all your wobbly bits in a photo?
Emily Blunt
#76. Her secret? Loving her own life. Finding the things that came her way of immense interest and animating them. No matter what was going on, it was great to be her, starring in her own true-life adventure.
Karen Karbo
#77. True productivity is not first about efficiency - doing things right and doing them quickly - but effectiveness - doing the right things.
Matt Perman
#78. Attitude is everything, they say . . . and I believe this to be true. If we learn to see the positive side of things, then we'll live longer, healthier, happier lives. A good way to do so is to stop complaining and start being grateful.
David Hamilton
#79. If you want to discover your true purpose for existing, all you have to do is look deeply into the things that bring you joy.
Toni Sorenson
#80. True Happiness is a state of the mind. Things that we acquire can make us momentarily happy but will not give us true freedom from our unhappiness.
Matthew Donnelly
#81. The true crisis in our world is not social, political, or economic, our crisis is the crisis of consciousness: an inability to directly experience our true nature, an inability to recognize this nature in everyone and in all things.
Daniel Schmidt
#82. And as far as wishing goes, I save my wishes for things that can still come true. There's no point in wasting them on the past.
G.A. McKevett
#83. People's true nature comes to the fore as soon as things start to go wrong.
Rosa Montero
#84. One of the things you learn as a journalist is that when there's no accountability, we humans are capable of tremendous avarice and venality. That's true of union bosses - and of corporate tycoons. Unions, even flawed ones, can provide checks and balances for flawed corporations.
Nicholas Kristof
#85. The vampire's true appearance was grotesque
but it wasn't as bad as some of the things I had seen in my day. Some demons were a lot worse, and some of the Elder Things could rip your mind apart just by letting you look at them
Jim Butcher
#86. I only work with a couple of co-writers who I'm really close with, so they always know what's going on in my life and we talk about things openly, they know every song is true to something that I'm either going through or have gone through before.
LIZ
#87. All things are true. God's an Astronaut. Oz is Over the Rainbow, and Midian is where the monsters live. - Peloquin
Clive Barker
#88. A leader has to be one of two things: he either has to be a brilliant visionary himself, a truly creative strategist, in which case he can do what he likes and get away with it; or else he has to be a true empowerer who can bring out the best in others.
Henry Mintzberg
#89. Thus proving that dreams that come true are not always the right dreams. Does wearing a glass slipper lead to a comfortable life? If everything you touch turns into marshmallows, won't that make things a bit ... sticky?
Terry Pratchett
#90. People in this world look at things mistakenly, and think that what they do not understand must be the void. This is not the true void. It is bewilderment ...
Miyamoto Musashi
#91. You cannot confuse bravery or courage with lack of fear. Real courage, true bravery is doing things in spite of fear, knowing fear.
Maia Wojciechowska
#92. The more people marginalize the true God of the Bible the more chaotic things become.
Tony Evans
#93. It was true, she thought, that the big things awe us but the little things touch us.
Bess Streeter Aldrich
#94. True love does not consist in trying to correct others, but in feeling joy that things are better than we expected.
Paulo Coelho
#95. When I was little, I thought everyone in the world liked to read because it was so fun. But then I realised that was not exactly true. I want other kids to read and write more all over the world, because it helps them to understand things better.
Adora Svitak
#96. Kant thought things, not because they were true, but because he was Kant.
W. Somerset Maugham
#97. I do trust you, is what I want to say. But it isn't true
I didn't trust him to love me despite the terrible things I had done. I don't trust anyone to do that, but that isn't his problem; it's mine.
Veronica Roth
#98. Until you're willing to accept what already is - the things of your past that you can't change - there's no space for you to create what you want. Acceptance is the key to unlocking the door to true peace, happiness, and freedom.
Hal Elrod
#99. People aren't things to be molded; they are lives to be unfolded. And that's what true leaders do. They unfold the lives of others and help them reach their God-given potential.
Rick Warren
#100. If you give a meaning to certain things in my paintings it may be very true, but it is not my idea to give this meaning. What ideas and conclusions you have got I obtained too, but instinctively, unconsciously. I make the painting for the painting. I paint the objects for what they are.
Pablo Picasso
