Top 1200 True North Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

"True science has no belief," says Dr. Fenwick, in Bulwer-Lytton's 'Strange Story;' "true science knows but three states of mind: denial, conviction, and the vast interval between the two, which is not belief, but the suspension of judgment." Such, perhaps, was true science in Dr. Fenwick's days. But the true science of our modern times proceeds otherwise; it either denies point-blank, without any preliminary investigation, or sits in the interim, between denial and conviction, and, dictionary in hand, invents new Graeco-Latin appellations for non-existing kinds of hysteria!

If you have an anecdote from one source, you file it away. If you hear it again, it may be true. Then the more times you hear it the less likely it is to be true.

The Conservative party absolutely must not allow itself to be shut out of parts of the north of England.

Growing up, there were not many people I trusted. There are stories for days about how my attitude was. A lot of it's true. A lot of it's not true.

Everyone always says the middle child is the worst or whatever - what do they say? That everyone forgets about them? But that's not true. That's not true in my family.

I have a hostile country on my western border. On the north of us, we have China. These two countries are going to collude.

True compassion is undirected & holds no conceptual focus. That kind of genuine, true compassion is only possible after realizing emptiness.

The creation of Physics is the shared heritage of all mankind. East and West, North and South have equally participated in it.

What the heck is true love? I remember feeling, back when I was 12 and 'going' with this girl, 'Is this true love?'

True success and true happiness not only go together but each other enhances the other.

The challenge is to stay true to the characters while also having them be entertaining every day, because it turns out that just watching someone be true to themselves isn't that rad to watch.

The United States is deeply concerned about the vulnerability of the North Korean people to a coronavirus outbreak.

If you believe that every life has equal value, it’s revolting to learn that some lives are seen as worth saving and others are not. We said to ourselves: “This can’t be true. But if it is true, it deserves to be the priority of our giving.”

True believers just don't see things the way they are, because if they did, they wouldn't be true believers anymore.

Every religion, every mythology is true in this sense: It is true as metaphorical of the human and cosmic mystery.

Silly ideas, worth the admission price in smiles, but they're true. Is high-energy physics interesting because it's true or because it's crazy?

True salvation always produces an abiding change of nature in a true convert. Therefore, whenever holiness of life does not accompany a confession of conversion, it must be understood that this individual is not a Christian.

I'm just stayin' humble, and true. It's good right now baby - staying' true baby.

It is hard to tell which is worse; the wide diffusion of things that are not true, or the suppression of things that are true.

To recognize that some of the things our culture believes are not true imposes on us the duty of finding out which are true and which are not.

In fiction there can be no appeal to any authority outside the book itself. . . . the thing has to look true, and that is all. It is not made to look true by simple statement.

If something must be true for us, as humans, to exist, than it is true simply because we exist.

We understand U.S. position, but we have to find a way to make trade translate into better jobs in North America.

Overall relations between the North and the South have developed in favor of national reconciliation, unity and reunification.

Our single greatest challenge is the ability to move power to markets outside North Dakota.

North Korea has certainly, in the past, used detainees to initiate diplomatic exchanges with the United States.

Always with me was the inner twin: my true nature, my true self. It is timeless, free, compassionate and in love with whatever is natural to me

We know nothing. And just because you know something to be true at this moment in your life or you feel that it is true, you can never be sure of yourself.

If you stay true to yourself and true to your vision and your own values, you can power through and make an impact on modern life.

A true friend is someone you can disagree with and still remain friends. For if not, they weren't true friends in the first place.

We went for the best overall feel on each song. There are no musical overdubs at all. It's a true live record; it's one of the few true live records out there.

In true, narcissistic fashion, when my father was diagnosed as a narcissist, he called us all up individually to tell us, and he did it with true pride.

Children learn much more from how you act than from what you tell them. There are times this worries me - we parents are rarely the role models we want to be. True for life. True for driving.

It doesn't matter what is true; it only matters what people believe is true... You are what the media define you to be. [Greenpeace] became a myth and a myth-generating machine.

The promise, made when I am in love, to be true to the beloved as long as I live, commits me to being true even if I cease to be in love.

A true friend is someone who is always there during the ups and downs, I actually have a song called 'True Friend'.

Thou mayest rule over sin,' Lee. That's it. I do not believe all men are destroyed. I can name you a dozen who were not, and they are the ones the world lives by. It is true of the spirit as it is true of battles — only the winners are remembered.

It's true that virtually all new technologies do trigger what sociologists would call 'moral panics,' that there are a lot of people who are concerned with the possible political and social consequences, and that this has been true throughout the ages.

Why do beautiful songs make you sad?' 'Because they aren't true.' 'Never?' 'Nothing is beautiful and true.

I mean, the fight for a health care bill to cover all Americans and leave none behind is attacked as being a race appeal, which is not true, but then it's put out in the media as true.

A lot of dreams don't come true in life. If you can make somebody's dream come true, you should.

The market is fast-moving, fast-growing. Things that are true today may not be true tomorrow.

A true friend is a gift from God. Since God doesn't exist, guess what? Neither do true friends.

I can recognize the calls of practically every bird in North America. There are some in Africa I don't know, though

North Korea is a regime arming with missiles and weapons of mass destruction, while starving its citizens.

North Carolina was never a battleground state until recently. Now it is, and it's because of migration from the Northeast.

To me, the most interesting part of 'True Blood' is that the entire crux of the show is based on identity and finding your true identity.

I believe that in this way the teacher always is the prophet of the true God and the usherer in of the true kingdom of God.

He, who knows how to distinguish between true and false, must have an adequate idea of true and false.

Queen Victoria was loyal and true to the Pope; that is what I was told, and so is Edward the Seventh loyal and true, but he has got something contrary in his body.

A true desire is not to have but to be. We are whole creatures in potential, and the true purpose of desire is to unfold that wholeness, to become what we can be.

I am assuming my father learned at an early age that there is nothing more dangerous than showing your true self. I think a lot of us learn that, and it actually may be true.

It is undoubtedly true that some people mistake sycophancy for good nature, but it is equally true that many more mistake impertinence for sincerity.

'Instagram' can engage generations of people that may not be on Facebook yet. I think that's true with 'WhatsApp,' and I think that will be true with things like Oculus.

There is no true word that is not at the same time a praxis. Thus, to speak a true word is to transform the world.

It's better to live with a sad truth than with all the happy progress talk you get up here in the North.

It, sometimes, suits the slaveholders to claim, that their slavery is an exclusively State concern; and that the North has, therefore, nothing to do with it.

You are required to believe, to preach, and to teach what the Bible says is true, not what you want the Bible to say is true.

The mantra that you're given in Transcendental Meditation you keep to yourself. The reason being, true happiness is not out there, true happiness lies within.

While it may be true – and probably is – that not all Muslims are terrorists, it also happens to be true that nearly all terrorists are Muslim.