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Mathematics is the only true metaphysics. — Lord Kelvin
It is a curious property of research activity that after the problem has been solved the solution seems obvious. This is true not only for… — Edwin Land
Biography is the only true history. — Thomas Carlyle
We must remain, in a word, in an intellectual disposition which seems paradoxical, but which, in my opinion, represents the true mind of the investigator.… — Claude Bernard
Our young people have come to look upon war as a kind of beneficent deity, which not only adds to the national honor but uplifts… — Rebecca Harding Davis
The one thing I know, everyone respects the true person and everyone's not true with themselves. — Mike Tyson
Reason guides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false, and passion, good or bad. — Philibert Joseph Roux
It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self. — Agnes Repplier
It's very easy to say that something is a shadow of itself, and it may be true in some senses. — Sydney Schanberg
It's true that there's no such thing as free will. We can't help what we are or what we do. It's not our fault. Nobody's… — Ayn Rand
Labor is the true standard of value. — Abraham Lincoln
Woman makes half the sorrows which she boasts the privilege to sooth. Woman consoles us, it is true, while we are young and handsome; when… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Great genetics are not necessarily a precursor for success in the game. Brazilian Legend Pelé has often said that soccer stars are not born. Without… — Unknown Author
What is this true meditation? It is to make everything: coughing, swallowing, waving the arms, motion, stillness, words, action, the evil and the good, prosperity… — Hakuin Ekaku
When we meditate, what we actually do is enter into a vacant, calm, still, silent mind. We go deep within and approach our true existence,… — Sri Chinmoy
True meditation can never be done with the mind. Very often we make a mistake when we say that we are meditating in the mind… — Sri Chinmoy
Real meditation we get from within or from a spiritual Master. We can never get it from books. From books we can get inspiration or… — Sri Chinmoy
Meditation means conscious self-expansion. Meditation means one's conscious awareness of the transcendental Reality. Meditation means the recognition or the discovery of one's own true self.… — Sri Chinmoy
No thought, no action, no movement, total stillness: only thus can one manifest the true nature and law of things from within and unconsciously, and… — Laozi
True courage is cool and calm. The bravest of men have the least of a brutal, bullying insolence, and in the very time of danger… — Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury
I am very hostile to religion because it is enormously dominant, especially in American life. And I don't buy the argument that, well, it's harmless.… — Richard Dawkins
Science is only truly consistent with an atheistic worldview with regards to the claimed miracles of the gods of Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Moreover, the… — Lawrence M. Krauss
If faith is a valid tool of knowledge, then anything can be true 'by faith,' and therefore nothing is true. If the only reason you… — Dan Barker
Man in his arrogance thinks himself a great work, worthy the interposition of a great deity. More humble and I believe true to consider him… — Charles Darwin
Finding that no religion is based on facts and cannot therefore be true, I began to reflect what must be the condition of mankind trained… — Robert Owen

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