Being True Quotes
896 quotes by 718 authors
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Let us be true: this is the highest maxim of art and of life, the secret of eloquence and of virtue, and of all moral…
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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Mothers, look after your daughters, keep them near you, keep their confidence - that they may be true and faithful.
— Elmina Shepard Taylor
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The writer, like everyone else, is equipped in infancy with a thick padding of things he believes to be true, but which aren't.
— Jon Franklin
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It is important to go into work you would like to do. Then it doesn't seem like work. You sometimes feel it's almost too good…
— Gertrude B. Elion
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Rejoice when other scientists do not believe what you know to be true. It will give you extra time to work on it in peace.…
— Unknown Author
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Thus I came...to a deep religiosity, which, however, reached an abrupt end at the age of 12. Through the reading of popular scientific books I…
— Albert Einstein
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Although God believers don't need evolution to be false, atheists need evolution to be true.
— Ann Coulter
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Your mind is an instrument, a tool. It is there to be used for a specific task, and when the task is completed, you lay…
— Eckhart Tolle
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Your nervous system cannot tell the difference between an imagined experience and a 'real' experience. In either case, it reacts automatically to information which you…
— Maxwell Maltz
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In Jesus, God wills to be true God not only in the height but also in the depth - in the depth of human creatureliness,…
— Karl Barth
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No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some terror in their…
— Oscar Wilde
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What passes for identity in America is a series of myths about one's heroic ancestors. It's astounding to me, for example, that so many people…
— James A. Baldwin
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So Americans understand the costs of war. Yet as a country, we will never tolerate our security being threatened, nor stand idly by when our…
— Barack Obama
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You have to be true to yourself, but you have to be true to your best self, not to the self that secretly thinks you…
— Stephen Gaskin
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In dwelling, be close to the land. In meditation, go deep in the heart. In dealing with others, be gentle and kind. In speech, be…
— Laozi
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Wars produce many stories of fiction, some of which are told until they are believed to be true.
— Ulysses S. Grant
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To create an unfavorable impression, it is not necessary that certain things should be true, but that they have been said.
— William Hazlitt
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If you would serve your brother it is fit for you to serve him, do not take back your words when you find that prudent…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I felt like my vote was the vote that put [Obama] into office. It was down to one vote, and that was going to be…
— Puff Daddy
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Flattery pleases very generally. In the first place, the flatterer may think what he says to be true; but, in the second place, whether he…
— Samuel Johnson
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