Quotes with true-story

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• The true picture of the past flits by. The past can be seized only as an image which flashes up at the instant when it can be recognized and is never seen again.

  ― Walter Benjamin
  German philosopher (1892 - 1940)
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• The true poem is the poet's mind.

  ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
  American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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• The true Republic: men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less.

  ― Susan B. Anthony
  American women's rights activist (1820 - 1906)
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• The true saint goes in and out amongst the people and eats and sleeps with them and buys and sells in the market and marries and takes part in social intercourse, and never forgets God for a single moments.

  ― Abu Sa'id
   
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• The true science and study of man, is man himself.

  ― Pierre Charron
  French philosopher (1541 - 1603)
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• The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

  ― Albert Einstein
  German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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• The true snob never rests: there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.

  ― Russell Lynes
  American editor, criticus (1910 - 1991)
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• The true sound and strong mind is the one that can embrace equally great and small things.

  ― Samuel Johnson
  English writer (1709 - 1784)
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• The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it.

  ― Edward Bulwer-Lytton
  English writer and poet (1803 - 1873)
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• The true success is the person who invented himself.

  ― Al Goldstein
  American pornographer (1936 - 2013)
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• The true Tarot is symbolism; it speaks no other language and offers no other signs.

  ― Arthur E. Waite
  American-born British poet and mystic (1857 - 1942)
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• The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-distrust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciple.

  ― Amos Bronson Alcott
  American educator and social reformer (1799 - 1888)
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• The true test of a man's style is the haircut. There are some men who look good no matter how their hair is styled, whether it's trendy or not. A man can change his haircut many times, but to pull off any haircut, you have to be very chic. Like Brad Pitt.

  ― Carine Roitfeld
  French fashion editor (1954 - )
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• The true test of character is not how much we know how to do, but how we behave when we don't know what to do.

  ― John Holt
  American author and educator (1923 - 1985)
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• The true triumph of reason is that it enables us to get along with those who do not possess it.

  ― Voltaire
  French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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• The true university of these days is a collection of books.

  ― Thomas Carlyle
  Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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• The true use of a letter is to let one know that one is remembered and valued.

  ― James Russell Lowell
  American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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• The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them.

  ― Oliver Goldsmith
  Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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• The true way is the middle one, halfway between deserving a place and pushing oneself into it.

  ― Baltasar Gracian
  Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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• The true way to gain much, is never to desire to gain too much.

  ― Francis Beaumont
  English writer and poet (1584 - 1616)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• self-distrust
• conversation
• observation
• overturning
• university
• collection

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