We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances.
Isaac Newton

Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true.
Brian Tracy

True humility is contentment.
Henri Frederic Amiel

Let us be true: this is the highest maxim of art and of life, the secret of eloquence and of virtue, and of all moral authority.
Henri Frederic Amiel

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

To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.
Nicolaus Copernicus

Myths which are believed in tend to become true.
George Orwell

It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one's own personality. Good prose is like a windowpane.
George Orwell

Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.
George Orwell

What has 'theology' ever said that is of the smallest use to anybody? When has 'theology' ever said anything that is demonstrably true and is not obvious? What makes you think that 'theology' is a subject at all?
Richard Dawkins

Man is an exception, whatever else he is. If he is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust. If it is not true that a divine being fell, then we can only say that one of the animals went entirely off its head.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Large organization is loose organization. Nay, it would be almost as true to say that organization is always disorganization.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on.
Robert Kennedy

How true Daddy's words were when he said: all children must look after their own upbringing. Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.
Anne Frank

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

It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.
Stephen Fry

Well even before she was diagnosed with the cancer, I would have said that she was a lot tougher than me and most guys would probably say that about their wives and it's probably true in most cases.
Brett Favre