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Quotes About TRUE

I love you not because you are deserving of my love but because it is my number one duty as a Christian.There is no Christianity without true love!
~ Bien Sufficient
A true diamond never over shadows... it's the brilliance of the subtle shine that's the most attractive.
~ Dena Tyson, Xceptance
This simple inability to remember not the true sequence of events but a reconstructed one will make history appear in hindsight to be far more explainable than it actually was—or is.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
My point taken further is that True and False (hence what we call "belief") play a poor, secondary role in human decisions; it is the payoff from the True and the False that dominates—and it is almost always asymmetric, with one consequence much bigger than the other, i.e., harboring positive and negative asymmetries (fragile or antifragile). Let
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The need to focus on the payoff from your actions instead of studying the structure of the world (or understanding the "True" and the "False") has been largely missed in intellectual history.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The future is yet full of trial and success. There is happiness to be enjoyed! There is good to be done! Exchange this false life of thine for a true one.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
So they lingered an instant longer. No golden light had ever been so precious as the gloom of this dark forest. Here, seen only by his eyes, the scarlet letter need not burn into the bosom of the fallen woman! Here, seen only by her eyes, Arthur Dimmesdale, false to God and man, might be, for one moment, true!
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
The manner of the woman was ungracious; but her words were true. They saw that their presence could do nothing towards the alleviation of the misery they witnessed; and they felt that mere curiosity would not authorize a longer intrusion. So soon, therefore, as they had relieved, according to their power, the poverty that seemed to be the least evil of this cottage, they emerged into the open air.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
The girl waved her hand to Hepzibah and Clifford, and went up the street; a religion in herself, warm, simple, true, with a substance that could walk on earth, and a spirit that was capable of heaven.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
Poor sisters—yea, I love you as I pity you, For your unsatiated thirsts and anguished sighs, And for the vials of love within your hearts so true.
~ Charles Baudelaire
for when had the true faith been other than persecuted and trampled under foot? If one came to think of it with eyes purified from the tears of carnal impatience, what was it but a glorious martyrdom? Blest
~ Charles Kingsley
To understand the true impact of a treatment, we need to know the "counterfactual," which is what would have happened in the absence of that treatment or intervention.
~ Charles Wheelan
Modernity is a shifting entity, not easily defined. Exactly the same is true of empire.
~ Linda Colley
I don't think any collector knows his true motivation.
~ Robert Mapplethorpe
he plundered the living treasure of those shelves. There was Burton's marvelous Anatomy, his staggering erudition never smelling of the dust or of the lamp...There was the dark tremendous music of Sir Thomas Browne, and Hooker's sounding and tremendous passion made great by genius and made true by faith.
~ Thomas Wolfe
If inner peace is the true objective, would I win it in exile?
~ Tim O'Brien
They loved, and quarreled, and made up, and loved, and fought, and were true to each other and untrue. She made him the happiest man in the whole world and the most wretched, and after a few years she died, and then, when he was thirty, he died, too. But by that time Catullus had invented the love poem.
~ Tom Stoppard
But the true test of a church—and of a man—is not how good it looks, but the kind of impact it makes in the community.
~ Tony Evans
A godly woman's true adornment can't be bought at a department store or acquired in the beauty shop.
~ Tony Evans
praise, exalt, and glorify the King of the heavens, because all his works are true and his ways are just.a He is able to humbleb those who walk in pride.c
~ Tony Evans
I just try to stay true to the characters that I'm asked to play and outside of that, if I do a commercial that pokes fun at myself or if I have a silly game that's named after me, that's okay. It is what it is.
~ Kevin Bacon
Anyone who thinks that security products alone offer true security is settling for the illusion of security.
~ Kevin D. Mitnick
Chrysostom at length expressed the need for the overseer of God's people to preach true doctrine and refute false teaching:
~ Kevin J. Vanhoozer
I want to point out that the main reason our modern society cannot give us true and lasting self-esteem is that it cannot provide us with a meaningful understanding of what the self is.
~ Kim Michaels