#true

The true knowledge or science which exists nowhere but in the mind itself, has no other entity at all besides intelligibility; and therefore whatsoever is clearly intelligible, is absolutely true. ↗

— Ralph Cudworth

#besides #clearly #entity #exists #intelligible

Aristotle taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons. ↗

— Will Cuppy

#blood #brain #certain #cool #exists

That's true but I think the contemporary problem that we are facing increasing numbers of black people and other people of color being thrown into a status that involves work in alternative economies and increasing numbers of people who are incarcerated. ↗

— Angela Davis

#being #black #color #contemporary #economies

It is only partly true that religion does more harm than good in society. The community makes God into the image it wants, vengeful, or milky sweet, or scrupulously just, and so on. ↗

— Mary Douglas

#does #god #good #harm #image

It is generally true that all that is required to make men unmindful of what they owe God for any blessing is that they should receive that blessing often and regularly. ↗

— Richard Whately

#blessing #generally #god #make #men

People may expect too much of journalism. Not only do they expect it to be entertaining, they expect it to be true. ↗

— Lewis H. Lapham

#entertaining #expect #journalism #may #much

People don't like the true and simple; they like fairy tales and humbug. ↗

— Edmond de Goncourt

#fairy tales #humbug #like #people #simple

While I don't satisfy my curiosity about the way I work, I'm terribly curious about the way other poets work. But I would think that's true about many of us. ↗

— Thom Gunn

#curiosity #curious #i #many #other

There are always new, grander challenges to confront, and a true winner will embrace each one. ↗

— Mia Hamm

#challenges #confront #each #embrace #grander

There's a statistical theory that if you gave a million monkeys typewriters and set them to work, they'd eventually come up with the complete works of Shakespeare. Thanks to the Internet, we now know this isn't true. ↗

— Ian Hart

#complete #eventually #gave #internet #know