Being true Quotes · Page 4

Let your speech be true and sweet.

— Tirumalai Krishnamacharya

Children are certainly too good to be true.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Be true to what matters most to your heart.

— Cheryl Richardson

Be true to yourself. Never compromise.

— Tweet

True beauty is inside and out.

— Donna Lee

To be true to ourselves, we must be true to others.

— Jimmy Carter

What is not in nature can never be true.

— Voltaire

I want to be true to who I am.

— Annie Lennox

Wars produce many stories of fiction, some of which are told until they are believed to be true.

— Ulysses S. Grant

It's very easy to say that something is a shadow of itself, and it may be true in some senses.

— Sydney Schanberg

. . .and the thing that you know to be true is the lie that will kill you.

— Glen Cook

Christian theology: nothing so grotesque could possibly be true.

— Edward Abbey

Just be true to yourself and don't do anything that doesn't feel right.

— Matt Preston

Old love, old love, / How can I be true? / Shall I be faithless to myself / Or to you?

— Sara Teasdale

Profound things are simple. If it is not simple, it cannot be true. But simple things are difficult.

— Douglas Harding

See If You Can Give Yourself Gifts That May Be True Blessings, Such As Self-Acceptance

— Jon Kabat-Zinn

Generally, if I can't be true to the creator's intention and spirit, I will probably shy away from working on a character.

— Darwyn Cooke

Love was a rare thing, easily confused with a million other things, and if anybody knew this to be true it was…

— Junot Diaz

Evolution, as a mechanism, can be and must be true. But that says nothing about the nature of its author. For those…

— Francis Collins

The moral of human life is never simple, and the moral of a story which aims only at being true to human…

— James Anthony Froude

I think about the sincerity of my writing. I try to be true, to pose questions. Shake people up a bit and…

— Philippe Claudel

It's better to live one day on this planet being true to yourself than an entire lifetime which is a lie

— Anthony Venn-Brown

If one harbors anywhere in one's mind a nationalistic loyalty or hatred, certain facts, though in a sense known to be true,…

— George Orwell

Taken with the archaeological data, we can say that the old hypothesis of an invasion of people - not merely their language…

— Spencer Wells

He felt a spasm of excitement because he knew instinctively who it was, or at least knew who it was he wanted…

— Douglas Adams

The most fundamental attack on freedom is the attack on critical thinking skills. Comments display our universal failure to teach and value…

— Travis Nichols

I certainly don't agree with the bodybuilders who say you can get big forearms just by squeezing the dumbbell handles when doing…

— Lou Ferrigno

Saying No gains you respect. When you say No, the other person may feel disappointed. But ultimately, they will respect you for…

— Doreen Virtue

I am but a poor struggling soul yearning to be wholly good, wholly truthful and wholly non-violent in thought, word and deed,…

— Mahatma Gandhi

You ought to be true for the sake of the folks who think you are true. You never should stoop to a…

— Edgar Guest

I maintain there is much more wonder in science than in pseudoscience. And in addition, to whatever measure this term has any…

— Carl Sagan

Time and space are absolute. Diseases are evil spirits that inhabit the body. Parallel lines never meet. The earth is the center…

— Michael Lewis

Convictions following the admission into evidence of confessions which are involuntary, i.e., the product of coercion, either physical or psychological, cannot stand.…

— Felix Frankfurter

It seems far simpler to go ahead and say that the epic is a fantastic myth, that happens to be true of…

— Ursula Goodenough

We shall see that the mathematical treatment of the subject [of electricity] has been greatly developed by writers who express themselves in…

— James Clerk Maxwell

The child says, "Well geesh, the institutions that I'm supposed to respect - the church and the government - they're telling me…

— Harold Ramis

For if as scientists we seek simplicity, then obviously we try the simplest surviving theory first, and retreat from it only when…

— Nelson Goodman

The blessed Paul argues that we are saved by faith, which he declares to be not from us but a gift from…

— Fulgentius of Ruspe

And then he says, "The writer must be true to truth." And that's a killer, because the only way you can describe…

— Joseph Campbell

[Some of the people I'd met] were wonderful people as human beings, and some people were more difficult. I could not see…

— Matthieu Ricard