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There are many true ladies, and they differ somewhat from society generally. So does a true gentleman, on the same principle of refinement and nobility… — Maria Jane McIntosh
If there be a true way that leads to the Everlasting Kingdom, it is most certainly that of suffering, patiently endured. — Saint Colette
Honesty is as much saying everything as it is saying what is true. — Unknown Author
Honesty is the foundation of a sound character and the keystone of all other virtues. It is the cement without which all other redeeming features… — William Grant Bangerter
Man is not a being who stands still, he is a being in the process of becoming. The more he enables himself to become, the… — Rudolf Steiner
True art lies in a reality that is felt. — Odilon Redon
I hide my true feelings to avoid causing you trouble or pain, I act strong to show you that I'm not unreliable, I hold my… — Harriet Morgan
It may be said of some very old places, as of some very old books, that they are destined to be forever new. The nearer… — Amelia B. Edwards
There never comes a point where a theory can be said to be true. The most that one can claim for any theory is that… — A.J. Ayer
The dog of your boyhood teaches you a great deal about friendship, and love, and death: Old Skip was my brother. They had buried him… — Willie Morris
The characteristic property of hallucinogens, to suspend the boundaries between the experiencing self and the outer world in an ecstatic, emotional experience, makes it posible… — Albert Hofmann
Though it sounds absurd, it is true to say I felt younger at sixty than I felt at twenty. — Ellen Glasgow
For it is the duty of an astronomer to compose the history of the celestial motions or hypotheses about them. Since he cannot in any… — Unknown Author
The true remedy for most evils is none other than liberty, unlimited and complete liberty, liberty in every field of human endeavor. — Gustave de Molinari
Competing is exciting and winning is exhilarating, but the true prize will always be the self-knowledge and understanding that you have gained along the way. — Sebastian Coe
True leadership must have follower-ship. Management styles can vary, but even an autocrat needs people who believe and simply don't follow from fear. — James D. Robinson III
It must be obvious that liberty necessarily means freedom to choose foolishly as well as wisely; freedom to choose evil as well as good; freedom… — Ben Moreell
Art and life really are the same, and both can only be about a spiritual journey, a path towards a re-union with a supreme creator,… — Genesis P-Orridge
You can have unbelievable intelligence, you can have connections, you can have opportunities fall out of the sky. But in the end, hard work is… — Marsha Johnson Evans
Bacon first taught the world the true method of the study of nature, and rescued science from that barbarism in which the followers of Aristotle,… — Thomas Young
In order to turn natural history into a true science, one would have to devote oneself to investigations capable of telling us not the particular… — Unknown Author
The aim of scientific work is truth. While we internally recognise something as true, we judge, and while we utter judgements, we assert. — Gottlob Frege
True science is at length disencumbered of the empirical determinations which had accumulated in the course of many centuries. — Franz Cumont
[Science] dissipates errors born of ignorance about our true relations with nature, errors the more damaging in that the social order should rest only on… — Pierre-Simon Laplace
All good intellects have repeated, since Bacon's time, that there can be no real knowledge but that which is based on observed facts. This is… — Auguste Comte

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