Opinion is like a pendulum and obeys the same law. If it goes past the centre of gravity on one side, it must go a like distance on the other; and it is only after a certain time that it finds the true point at which it can remain at rest.
Arthur Schopenhauer

If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame.
Arthur Schopenhauer

The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.
Arthur Schopenhauer

If we are always arriving and departing, it is also true that we are eternally anchored. One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.
Henry Miller

True strength lies in submission which permits one to dedicate his life, through devotion, to something beyond himself.
Henry Miller

I see myself as a true modernist. Even when I do a traditional gown, I give it a modern twist. I go to the past for research. I need to know what came before so I can break the rules.
Vera Wang

I haven't read anything but regurgitated rumors. Nothing new, and nothing true.
Layne Staley

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
Kurt Vonnegut

All this happened, more or less. The war parts, anyway, are pretty much true.
Kurt Vonnegut

True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice.
Saint Francis de Sales

The mark of a true politician is that he is never at a loss for words because he is always half-expecting to be asked to make a speech.
Richard M. Nixon

People react to fear, not love; they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true.
Richard M. Nixon

The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.
Michelangelo

Man is an exception, whatever else he is. If he is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust. If it is not true that a divine being fell, then we can only say that one of the animals went entirely off its head.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Large organization is loose organization. Nay, it would be almost as true to say that organization is always disorganization.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Time and memory are true artists; they remould reality nearer to the heart's desire.
John Dewey

Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.
Charles Dickens