Very True Quotes

• It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Love, Men, Leisure

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• It is very true, that the way you think creates reality for yourself.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Reality, Thinking, Way

  "Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. May 13, 2007.

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• You all know the saying which is very true: What you resist persists. And I'm sure many of you have already found that out in your life. And then suddenly when you let go of resistance you let go of an attachment to something: I need this to happen in order to be happy; I don't want what is, I want something else. To be okay with what is, which is the simplicity of this moment, is the beginning of true change.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Letting Go, Attachment, Order

  FaceBook post by Eckhart Tolle from Feb 29, 2012

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• The expressive word "quiet" defines the dress, manners, bow, and even physiognomy of every true denizen of St. James and Bond street.

  Nathaniel Parker Willis

  Bows, Dresses, Quiet

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• Every true American likes to think in terms of thousands and millions. The word 'million' is probably the most pleasure-giving vocable in the language.

  Agnes Repplier

  Thinking, Giving, Likes

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• For all riches come from iniquity, and unless one were to lose another could not gain. Hence the common adage seems to me to be very true: The rich man is unjust or the heir of an unjust one.

  St. Jerome

  Men, Unjust, Riches

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• Every true artist does feel, consciously or unconsciously, that he is touching transcendental truths; that his images are shadows of things seen through the veil. In other words, the natural mystic does know that there is something there, something behind the clouds or within the trees; but he believes that the pursuit of beauty is the way to find it; that imagination is a sort of incantation that can call it up.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Believe, Artist, Clouds

  "The Everlasting Man". Book by G. K. Chesterton, V: Man and Mythologies, 1925.

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• In every true searcher of Nature there is a kind of religious reverence.

  Albert Einstein

  Religious, Kind, Searchers

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.322, Princeton University Press

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• It is a very true and expressive phrase, "He looked daggers at me," for the first pattern and prototype of all daggers must have been a glance of the eye.... It is wonderful how we get about the streets without being wounded by these delicate and glancing weapons, a man can so nimbly whip out his rapier, or without being noticed carry it unsheathed. Yet it is rare that one gets seriously looked at.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Eye, Men, Society

  Henry David Thoreau (1906). “The Writings of Henry David Thoreau: A week on the Concord and Merrimack rivers”

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• Every true passion thinks only of itself.

  Stendhal

  Passion, Thinking, True Passion

  Le Rouge et le Noir bk. 2, ch. 1 (1830)

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• The process may seem strange and yet it is very true. I did not so much gain the knowledge of things by the words, as words by the experience I had of things.

  Plutarch

  May, Gains, Strange

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• Whenever a great painter... does a work which appears to be false and lying, that falsity is very true.

  Michelangelo

  Lying, Doe, Painter

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• He who esteems the Virginia reel A bait to draw saints from their spiritual weal, And regards the quadrille as a far greater knavery Than crushing His African children with slavery, Since all who take part in a waltz or cotillon Are mounted for hell on the devil's own pillion, Who, as every true orthodox Christian well knows, Approaches the heart through the door of the toes.

  James Russell Lowell

  Crush, Christian, Spiritual

  James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.316, Delphi Classics

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• Art itself is essentially ethical; because every true work of art must have a beauty or grandeur of some kind, and beauty and grandeur cannot be comprehended by the beholder except through the moral sentiment. The eye is only a witness; it is not a judge. The mind judges what the eye reports to it; therefore, whatever elevates the moral sentiment to the contemplation of beauty and grandeur is in itself ethical.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Art, Eye, Judging

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• Every true revival from that day to this has had its earthly origin in prayer.

  R. A. Torrey

  Prayer, Revival

  "The Power of Prayer and the Prayer of Power".

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• There are no perfectly honorable men; but every true man has one main point of honor and a few minor ones.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Men, Honorable Man, True Man

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.5800, e-artnow

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• All that you may achieve or discover you will regard as a fragment of a larger pattern of the truth which from the separate approaches every true scholar is striving to descry.

  Abbott Lawrence Lowell

  Over You, May, Patterns

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• Does not every true man feel that he is himself made higher by doing reverence to what is really above him?

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Doe, Worship

  Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.100, Lulu.com

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• The office of President is a great one; to every true American it seems the greatest on earth. And to me, as I was engaged in weaving a background of music for the pageantry of it, there came a deeper realization of the effect of that office on the man.

  John Philip Sousa

  Men, Office, President

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• I like Scottish people because they feel very true. They're always level and straight. They get a reputation for being hardened because of it, but I find them to be scrupulously honest people.

  Rupert Friend

  People, Levels, Reputation

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• At the bottom of philosophy something very true and very desperate whispers: Everyone is hungry all the time. Everyone is starving. Everyone wants so much, much more than they can stomach, but the appetite doesn't converse much with the stomach. Everyone is hungry and not only for food - for comfort and love and excitement and the opposite of being alone. Almost everything awful anyone does is to get those things and keep them.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Philosophy, Opposites, And Love

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• Every true man's apparel fits your thief.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Thieves, Fit

  'Measure for Measure' (1604) act 4, sc. 2, l. [46]

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• It's funny - Frankie Valli's story and that advice that he was just getting from, you know, Christopher Walken's character, is very true for someone who's in a creative field.

  John Lloyd Young

  Character, Creative, Advice

  Source: www.npr.org

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• The great European novel started out as entertainment, and every true novelist is nostalgic for it. In fact, the themes of those great entertainments are terribly serious-think of Cervantes!

  Milan Kundera

  Thinking, Novelists, Facts

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• People always say that music is a universal language. It was very, very true. We could show up anywhere with any people speaking different languages and we could just be like, "You want to play that song? Yeah, okay." We would usually want to play Latin American songs, and they would usually want to play Santana or Jimi Hendrix and stuff like that. So we would trade off. So yeah, we were able to make a lot of friends that way and meet a lot of local musicians. It was a great experience.

  Jherek Bischoff

  Song, Latin, People

  Source: thequietus.com

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