What Is True That Counts Quotes

#1. It is not a matter of what is true that counts, but a matter of what is perceived to be true.

Henry Kissinger

#2. All good tales are true tales, at least for those who read them, which is all that counts.

Javier Cercas

#3. Everybody counts in applying democracy. And there will never be a true democracy until every responsible and law-abiding adult in it, without regard to race, sex, color or creed has his or her own inalienable and unpurchasable voice in government.

Carrie Chapman Catt

#4. It seemed there was always a close correlation between true believers and high body counts.

Dan Brown

#5. The school reports say you don't concentrate. But you don't concentrate because you are thinking. They don't understand that. They think intelligence is all about soaking up knowledge. But true intelligence- the intelligence that really counts- is the ability to interpret facts to make them you own.

Chris Priestley

#6. In the make-up of human beings, intelligence counts for more than our hands, and that is our true strength.

Ovid

#7. [P]erhaps it is the loving that counts, not the being loved in return
that perhaps true loving can never know anything but happiness.

Dodie Smith I Capture The Castle

#8. If I've learned one thing in the last few days it is that every question does not need to be answered. A story is not true just because of it's literal veracity. It is the message, what it teaches, that counts.

Joseph Bruchac

#9. The true writer has nothing to say. What counts is the way he says it.

Alain Robbe-Grillet

#10. Every true Christian is a soldier - of Christ - a hero 'par excellence'! Braver than the bravest - scorning the soft seductions of peace and her oft-repeated warnings against hardship, disease, danger, and death, whom he counts among his bosom friends.

Charles Studd

#11. Classical apologetics operates with a very modern notion of reason; "presuppositional" apologetics, on the other hand, is postmodern (and Augustinian!) insofar as it recognizes the role of presuppositions in both what counts as truth and what is recognized as true.

James K.A. Smith

#12. It might be true that it is "quality time" that counts, but after a certain point quantity has a bearing on quality.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

#13. What counts is to be true, and then everything fits in, humanity and simplicity.

Albert Camus

#14. A new opinion counts as true just in proportion as it gratifies the individual's desire to assimilate the novel in his experience to his beliefs in stock

William James

#15. The true courage of civilized nations is readiness for sacrifice in the service of the state, so that the individual counts as only one amongst many. The important thing here is not personal mettle but aligning oneself with the universal.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

#16. I would attack any squadron blockading a port. Nothing could prevent me from dropping out of the clear blue sky on to a battleship with 400 kilos of explosives in the cockpit. Of course it is true that the pilot would be killed, but everything would blow up, and that's what counts.

Jules Vedrines

#17. Braque always said that the only thing that counts, in painting, is the intention, and it's true. What counts is what one wants to do, and not what one does. That's what's important.

Pablo Picasso