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Quotes About TRUE

It's guid to be merry and wise,It's guid to be honest and true,It's guid to support Caledonia's causeAnd bide by the buff and the blue.
~ Robert Burns
Ultimately, we can say that mathematics is the discipline of proving provable statements true. Science, in contrast, is the discipline of proving provable statements false.
~ Robert C. Martin
Daily Law: Think back on the moments when you felt deeply and personally connected to an activity. Think about the pleasure it brought you. In such activities are signs of your true purpose. Mastery, I: Discover Your Calling—The Life's Task
~ Robert Greene
You will see the signs of this shadow leaking out in everyday life. If people take an action that seems out of character, you will take note: what often appears out of character is actually more of their true character.
~ Robert Greene
Once the heron to set his path; Twice the heron to name him true.
~ Robert Jordan
A fool moans when fortune takes him down, and it takes a true fool to moan when fortune takes him up.
~ Robert Jordan
The whole purpose of scientific method is to make valid distinctions between the false and the true in nature, to eliminate the subjective, unreal, imaginary elements from one's work so as to obtain an objective, true picture of reality.
~ Robert M. Pirsig
Keynes emphatically rejected socialism as an economic remedy for the ills of capitalism. Both classical economists and socialists, he often said, believed in the same 'laws of economics'. But whereas the former regarded them as true and inevitable, the latter saw them as true and intolerable. Keynes proposed to show they were not true.
~ Robert Skidelsky
Is that a nice thing to say to your mother? Oh, how true it is that it is sharper than a serpent's tooth to have a thankless child." "Is that a nice thing to say to your daughter?" said unrepentant Valancy.
~ L.M. Montgomery
Consider the true picture. Think of myriads of tiny bubbles, very sparsely scattered, rising through a vast black sea. We rule some of the bubbles. Of the waters we know nothing...
~ Larry Niven Jerry Pournelle
For Cortés, the conquest was a struggle of good against evil, of the true god against false gods, of superior beings against inferior beings.
~ Laura Esquivel
Once, the belief that his love would heal all the wounds, and finally make me feel safe, had been true. True, and a lie. Love is real, and false, even true love. Because love alone cannot keep you safe, if there is still a trembling fear inside you. Still a knowledge of what it was like to love and believe and have it all taken away.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
There are so few true villains, just other screwed-up people who pass the damage on.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
There may be motive, pathology, but it's not really a why, because the only real answer is always the same. Why did the bad guy do the really bad thing to this victim? Because he, they, it, could. That's the real and only true answer; all the rest is just lawyer and profiler talk.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
sucios subterfugios maquinados en la mezquindad para anular el verdadero espíritu de todas las leyes
~ Laurence Sterne
famous novel about us all, things began in exactly this way. I was strangely echoing his protagonist, summoned to the bedside of a dying friend (this was the difference) who had important things to reveal to him. Sylvie was there, too, in the centre of the picture as she always has been. Her madness was touchingly described. Of course in a way the characters were travesties of us; but the incidents were true enough and so was Verfeuille, the old chateau
~ Lawrence Durrell
Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true.
~ Niels Bohr
Philosophy always requires something more, requires the eternal, the true, in contrast to which even the fullest existence as such is but a happy moment.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
Science is not about what's true or what might be true, science is about what people with originally diverse viewpoints can be forced to believe by the weight of public evidence.
~ Lee Smolin
So, Fabricius, I already have this: that the most true path of the planet [Mars] is an ellipse, which Dürer also calls an oval, or certainly so close to an ellipse that the difference is insensible.
~ Johannes Kepler
If the weight comes from bacon you can so deduct it off the scale total to get your true weight. #science
~ Michelle M. Pillow
It's true. I've seen it when the crescent moon shone bright on a cold, dark night. The darker the night, the brighter God's smile.
~ Anusha Atukorala
Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring up the trouble can use the pretext of religion to mask their true designs.
~ Denis Diderot
The whole fabric of southern society must be changed, and never can it be done if this opportunity is lost. Without this, this government can never be, as it never has been, a true republic.
~ Thaddeus Stevens