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• “First of all: I am tired. I am true of heart! And also: You are tired. You are true of heart!”

  Dave Eggers (born 1970) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “It is true that God is even in the tiger, but we must not go and face the animal. So it is true that God dwells even in the most wicked, but it is not meet that we should associate with the wicked.”

  Ramakrishna (1836–1886) said by 1886 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Come back, true love! Sweet youth, return!— But time goes on, and will, unheeding, Though hands will reach, and eyes will yearn, And the wild days set true hearts bleeding.”

  Conrad Aiken (1889–1973) said by 1973 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Some people might say, I have a right to die, when they are arguing the case for suicide. And while this is true, it is also true that the people on your planet need every bit of help and encouragement they can get from each person alive. In a certain sense, the energy of each individual does keep the world going, and to commit suicide is to refuse a basic, cooperative venture.”

  Jane Roberts (1929–1984) said by 1984 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “But Parz was better than nothing: it offered stability, regulation, a framework to live in. People gripe about their tithes—and nobody’s going to pretend that the Committee gets it right all the time—but most of us would prefer taxes to living wild. With all respect to you, my friend.” He bit into his cake. “And that’s still true today; as true as it ever was.”

  Stephen Baxter (born 1957) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “The true aristocracy and the true proletariat of the world are both in understanding with tragedy. To them it is the fundamental principle of God, and the key, the minor key, to existence. They differ in this way from the bourgeoisie of all classes, who deny tragedy, who will not tolerate it, and to whom the word tragedy means in itself unpleasantness.”

  Karen Blixen (1885–1962) said by 1962 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “True joy is a profound remembering; and true grief the same.”

  Clive Barker (born 1952) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “[M]uch like Israel itself, this is a novel about great dreams, about great expectations, about bigger-than-life visions and, indeed, about the morning after and the sad realization that every dream come true is bound to be flawed by coming true. (about Black Box)”

  Amos Oz (1939–2018) said by 2018 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “I feel much more comfortable talking about the past than about the future. I'm old enough to know that life is full of surprises, and this is true of this country as much as it is true of Israel. I have seen people surprising not only others but even themselves.”

  Amos Oz (1939–2018) said by 2018 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Israel is a dream come true, and as a dream come true it is flawed, very flawed, and sometimes dangerously flawed or painfully flawed. But this is in the nature of dreams, not necessarily in the nature of Israel.”

  Amos Oz (1939–2018) said by 2018 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “We're overdue for a dream come true. Long time, nothing new. We're overdue for a dream come true.”

  Tom Petty (1950–2017) said by 2017 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “True friendship implies full confidence, which may only be completely given or completely withdrawn. If friendship has continually to be analyzed, nursed, and cured, it will cause more anguish than love itself, without having love's strength and its remedies. And if this confidence is ill-placed? Well — I would rather be betrayed by a false friend than deceive a true one.”

  André Maurois (1885–1967) said by 1967 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “All suffering is born of desire. True love is never frustrated. How can the sense of unity be frustrated? (…) Love is a state of being. Sex is energy. Love is wise, sex is blind. Once the true nature of love and sex is understood there will be no conflict or confusion.”

  Nisargadatta Maharaj (1897–1981) said by 1981 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “you'll know it's true, that you are blessed and lucky it's true, that you are touched by something that will grow and bloom in you”

  Natalie Merchant (born 1963) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “There is in the true man of science a desire stronger than the wish to have his beliefs upheld; namely, the desire to have them true.”

  William Kingdon Clifford (1845–1879) first seen 1879 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: https://archive.org/details/lecturesessaysby02clif/page/311/mode/1up Lectures and essays (1879), vol. 2, p. 311

• “The speech we hear is an indication of that which we don't hear. It is a necessary avoidance, a violent, sly, and anguished or mocking smoke screen which keeps the other in its true place. When true silence falls we are left with echo but are nearer nakedness. One way of looking at speech is to say that it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness. (p. 14)”

  Harold Pinter (1930–2008) said by 2008 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “You must be a true, eternal, and unchanging person, not an imitation. When your being reflects that standard, you are just that: true and eternal. If you compare yourself to that standard, then you can measure the degree of your genuineness.”

  Sun Myung Moon (1920–2012) first seen 1977 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Our Pride, (Jun 5, 1977)

• “Israel will never get true security and safety through oppressing another people. A true peace can ultimately be built only on justice. We condemn the violence of suicide bombers, and we condemn the corruption of young minds taught hatred; but we also condemn the violence of military incursions in the occupied lands, and the inhumanity that won't let ambulances reach the injured.”

  Desmond Tutu (1931–2021) said by 2021 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Having taken advantage of the carelessness of the KGB, the true communist ran to Moscow, with the intention of announcing the Western journalists that communism in Partgrad is being built in a wrong way and to begging the Western leaders to exert pressure on Soviet leadership so that the latter would rectify the Soviet communism and he, a true communist would be taken back in the party.”

  Alexander Zinoviev (1922–2006) said by 2006 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Early in his life Mr. [Ezra] Pound met with strong, continued, and unintelligent opposition. If people keep opposing you when you are right, you think them fools; and after a time, right or wrong, you think them fools simply because they oppose you. Similarly, you write true things or good things, and end by thinking things true or good simply because you write them”

  Randall Jarrell (1914–1965) said by 1965 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “The moment we act as if it's true, then it's true.”

  Richard Wright (1908–1960) said by 1960 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “I don’t understand why the sight of you should scare me so,” Joseph said. He did not sound frightened. “You don’t look that threatening. Just...very different.” “Different is threatening to most species,” Nikanj answered. “Different is dangerous. It might kill you. That was true to your animal ancestors and your nearest animal relatives. And it’s true for you.”

  Octavia Butler (1947–2006) said by 2006 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “No human being escapes the necessity of conceiving some good outside himself towards which his thought turns in a movement of desire, supplication, and hope. consequently, the only choice is between worshipping the true God or an idol. Every atheist is an idolater — unless he is worshipping the true God in his impersonal aspect. The majority of the pious are idolaters.”

  Simone Weil (1909–1943) first seen 1942 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Last Notebook (1942) p. 308

• “Such parents or children as aim at the gain and preferment of religion do often mistake gain and gold for godliness, godbelly for the true God, and some false for the true Lord Jesus.”

  Roger Williams (theologian) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “It may indeed be true that in order to act we need a certain amount of self-confidence and intellectual self-assurance. It may also be true that the very form of expression, in which we clothe our thoughts, tends to impose upon them an absolute tone.”

  Karl Mannheim (1893–1947) said by 1947 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “If you lend me your ears, I shall doubtless take your hearts too. That I may not lead you into any wrong, let me warn you of this. Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect. Be true to your own mind and conscience, your heart and your soul. So only can you be true to God.”

  Theodore Parker (1810–1860) first seen 1853 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Two Sermons (1853), Sermon II : Of the Position and Duty of a Minister.

• “Is true Freedom but to break Fetters for our own dear sake, And, with leathern hearts, forget That we owe mankind a debt? No! true freedom is to share All the chains our brothers wear, And, with heart and hand, to be Earnest to make others free!”

  James Russell Lowell (1819–1891) said by 1891 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “To theology, … only what it holds sacred is true, whereas to philosophy, only what holds true is sacred.”

  Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach (1804–1872) said by 1872 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Lecture II, R. Manheim, trans. (1967), p. 11

• “Critical power...tends to make an intellectual situation of which the creative power can profitably avail itself. It tends to establish an order of ideas, if not absolutely true, yet true by comparison with that which it displaces; to make the best ideas prevail.”

  Matthew Arnold (1822–1888) said by 1888 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “To be a mother is to nourish and protect true humanity and bring it to development. But again, this necessitates that she possess true humanity herself, and that she is clear as to what it means; otherwise, she cannot lead others to it. One can become suitable for this double duty if one has the correct personal attitude.”

  Edith Stein (1891–1942) said by 1942 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Wonder if it's all true?" said Charlotte, as we hurried up the path. "Sounded dreadfully like nonsense, in parts!" "P'raps its true for all that," I replied encouragingly.”

  Kenneth Grahame (1859–1932) said by 1932 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred — that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt.... If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.”

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811–1896) said by 1896 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “What is true zazen? What do you mean by Zen becomes Zen and you become you? You become you is a very important point. You become you. When you become you, even though you are in bed, you may not be you most of the time. Even though you are sitting here, I wonder whether you are you in its true sense. So to be you is zazen.”

  Shunryu Suzuki (1904–1971) first seen 1967 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Lecture in Los Altos, CA (1 September 1967)

• “Every word you say is true,” O’Doull answered. “Every single word. But saying it, no matter how true it is, doesn't make anybody on either side change his mind.”

  Harry Turtledove (born 1949) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Potter knew perfectly well that it was true. He also knew that what was true and what made good propaganda often had not even a nodding acquaintance with each other.”

  Harry Turtledove (born 1949) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “That was true, but, like a lot of true things, didn’t tell the whole story or even most of it.”

  Harry Turtledove (born 1949) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “The sceptics, who are many and stubborn, claim that, when it comes to human nature, if it is true that the opportunity does not always make the thief, it is also true that it helps a lot.”

  José Saramago (1922–2010) said by 2010 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “This topic is personal for me; it’s not just academic. If someone says that the Bible is a myth and is not true, or that the doctrine of evolution is true, and the Genesis account of creation is false, they are attacking the very foundation of my faith.”

  Kent Hovind (born 1953) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “I am one of the sustaining pillars of the Primal Word of God. Whosoever hath recognized Me, hath known all that is true and right, and hath attained all that is good and seemly; and whosoever hath failed to recognize Me, hath turned away from all that is true and right and hath succumbed to everything evil and unseemly.”

  Báb (1819–1850) said by 1850 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Since thou hast faithfully obeyed the true religion of God in the past, it behooveth thee to follow His true religion hereafter, inasmuch as every religion proceedeth from God, the Help in Peril, the Self-Subsisting.”

  Báb (1819–1850) said by 1850 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “And girls in slacks remember Dad, And oafish louts remember Mum, And sleepless children’s hearts are glad, And Christmas-morning bells say ‘Come!’ Even to shining ones who dwell Safe in the Dorchester Hotel. And is it true? And is it true, This most tremendous tale of all, Seen in a stained-glass window’s hue, A Baby in an ox’s stall? The Maker of the stars and sea Become a Child on earth for me?”

  John Betjeman (1906–1984) said by 1984 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “If you love me true And if you love me true I'll spend my life with you And Timer You're a jigsaw, Timer”

  Laura Nyro (1947–1997) said by 1997 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “The greatest want of the world is the want of men—men who will not be bought or sold, men who in their inmost souls are true and honest, men who do not fear to call sin by its right name, men whose conscience is as true to duty as the needle to the pole, men who will stand for the right though the heavens fall.”

  Ellen G. White (1827–1915) first seen 1903 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Education, p. 57, c 1903, 1952, The Ellen G. White Publications; Pacific Press Publishing Association.

• “The medieval mystics say the true image and the true real met once and for all on the cross: once and for all: and yet they still meet daily.”

  Madeleine L'Engle (1918–2007) said by 2007 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Sometimes you are arrogant, thinking you are better than others. More often you are humble. Too humble. I might even say, sickeningly humble. That is another form of arrogance. True humility is knowing your true place in the cosmic scale.”

  Philip José Farmer (1918–2009) said by 2009 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Like most true Scots I despise the haggis, the kilt and the caber. Unlike most true Scots, I am not Scottish.”

  Simon Munnery (born 1967) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Everything we're singing about is true, and even when you take away all the glitz, it's still true in the darkest, ugliest and most hopeless places.”

  Steven Curtis Chapman (born 1962) first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Speaking to reporters after winning his 55th and 56th Gospel Music Association Dove Awards in 2009 -- nearly one year after the accidental death of his 5-year-old adopted daughter Maria.

• “Your Majesty," he asked innocently, "is it true that your cousins once held you down in a water cache?" Ornon, in the act of putting down his wine cup, paused. "Is it also true that they wouldn't let you out until you agreed to repeat insults about your own family?”

  Megan Whalen Turner (born 1965) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “I think that it's when we step out of the road, step outside the box, become our own person and we walk fearlessly down paths other people wouldn't look at, that true progress comes. And sometimes true beauty as well.”

  John McAfee (1945–2021) first seen 2013 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: BBC News: "John McAfee: Addict, coder, runaway" (11 October 2013)

• “Why do beautiful songs make you sad?" "Because they aren't true." "Never?" "Nothing is beautiful and true." (p. 43)”

  Jonathan Safran Foer (born 1977) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

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