We stumble and fall constantly even when we are most enlightened. But when we are in true spiritual darkness, we do not even know that we have fallen.
Thomas Merton

Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone-we find it with another.
Thomas Merton

The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
Salvador Dali

Man's true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature; as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good.
Blaise Pascal

To have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher.
Blaise Pascal

It is natural for the mind to believe and for the will to love; so that, for want of true objects, they must attach themselves to false.
Blaise Pascal

It is good to be tired and wearied by the futile search after the true good, that we may stretch out our arms to the Redeemer.
Blaise Pascal

Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.
Blaise Pascal

Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune.
Noam Chomsky

What has 'theology' ever said that is of the smallest use to anybody? When has 'theology' ever said anything that is demonstrably true and is not obvious? What makes you think that 'theology' is a subject at all?
Richard Dawkins

Don't be "consistent" but be simple true.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be 'consistent'.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

A woman should never be seen eating or drinking, unless it be lobster salad and Champagne, the only true feminine and becoming viands.
Lord Byron

I should be very willing to redress men wrongs, and rather check than punish crimes, had not Cervantes, in that all too true tale of Quixote, shown how all such efforts fail.
Lord Byron

There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion.
Lord Byron

The Cardinal is at his wit's end - it is true that he had not far to go.
Lord Byron

Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.
Soren Kierkegaard

You have to perform at a consistently higher level than others. That's the mark of a true professional.
Joe Paterno

Ring out the false, ring in the true.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?
Alfred Lord Tennyson