After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.
Albert Camus

Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
Marcel Proust

There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.
Saint Thomas Aquinas

True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.
Abigail Van Buren

It is true that I was born in Iowa, but I can't speak for my twin sister.
Abigail Van Buren

All that is true, by whomsoever it has been said has its origin in the Spirit.
Saint Thomas Aquinas

Man cannot live without joy; therefore when he is deprived of true spiritual joys it is necessary that he become addicted to carnal pleasures.
Saint Thomas Aquinas

Hobbies of any kind are boring except to people who have the same hobby. This is also true of religion, although you will not find me saying so in print.
Dave Barry

Don't you wish you had a job like mine? All you have to do is think up a certain number of words! Plus, you can repeat words! And they don't even have to be true!
Dave Barry

Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
Aldous Huxley

Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hallmark of true science.
Aldous Huxley

The faster you go, the more students you leave behind. It doesn't matter how much or how fast you teach. The true measure is how much students have learned.
William Glasser

I have a theory that the best ads come from personal experience. Some of the good ones I have done have really come out of the real experience of my life, and somehow this has come over as true and valid and persuasive.
David Ogilvy

A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
Abraham Joshua Heschel

Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.
Viktor E. Frankl

Time and memory are true artists; they remould reality nearer to the heart's desire.
John Dewey

Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry.
Virginia Woolf

Platitudes? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.
Margaret Thatcher

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
Kurt Vonnegut

To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!
H. L. Mencken