A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustine

The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
Salvador Dali

We stumble and fall constantly even when we are most enlightened. But when we are in true spiritual darkness, we do not even know that we have fallen.
Thomas Merton

Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone-we find it with another.
Thomas Merton

Pervading nationalism imposes its dominion on man today in many different forms and with an aggressiveness that spares no one. The challenge that is already with us is the temptation to accept as true freedom what in reality is only a new form of slavery.
Pope John Paul II

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

If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
Marcus Aurelius

To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits and aversions.
Marcus Aurelius

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

We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals - this alone is worth the struggle.
William Osler

A woman should never be seen eating or drinking, unless it be lobster salad and Champagne, the only true feminine and becoming viands.
Lord Byron

I should be very willing to redress men wrongs, and rather check than punish crimes, had not Cervantes, in that all too true tale of Quixote, shown how all such efforts fail.
Lord Byron

There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion.
Lord Byron

The Cardinal is at his wit's end - it is true that he had not far to go.
Lord Byron

Only the hand that erases can write the true thing.
Meister Eckhart

The architect must be a prophet... a prophet in the true sense of the term... if he can't see at least ten years ahead don't call him an architect.
Frank Lloyd Wright

Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.
Frank Lloyd Wright