Being True Quotes

896 Being True quotes by 718 unique authors

Certainly my inner world will never be a peaceful place of bloom; it will have some peace, and occasional riots of bloom, but always a… — James Tiptree Jr.
People are stupid. They will believe a lie because they want to believe it's true, or because they are afraid it might be true. — Terry Goodkind
Be true to your work, your word, and your friend. — Henry David Thoreau
I am but a poor struggling soul yearning to be wholly good, wholly truthful and wholly non-violent in thought, word and deed, but ever failing… — Mahatma Gandhi
--Why are we fighting them? --They're mad. We're sane. --How do we know? --That we're sane? --Yes. --Am I sane? --To all appearances. --And you,… — Donald Barthelme
When I say 'I will be true to you' I am drawing a quiet space beyond the reach of other desires. — Jeanette Winterson
Every reiteration of the idea that _nothing matters_ debases the human spirit. Every reiteration of the idea that there is no drama in modern life,… — David Mamet
It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence to be ever in view, and which should be… — Abraham Lincoln
To be cheerful when others are in despair, to keep the faith when others falter, to be true even when we feel forsaken—all of these… — Neal A. Maxwell
I don't want to analyze myself or anything, but I think, in fact I know this to be true, that I enter the world through… — Aaron Sorkin
Be grateful, be smart, be clean, be true, be humble, be prayerful. — Gordon B. Hinckley
Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. — Richard Bach
I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live… — Abraham Lincoln
The notion that everyone would like Christianity to be true, and therefore all atheists are brave men who have accepted the defeat of all their… — C.S. Lewis
There are few ways in which good people do more harm to those who take them seriously than to defend the gospel with arguments that… — Henry B. Eyring
It is not a matter of what is true that counts, but a matter of what is perceived to be true. — Henry A. Kissinger
Woe to him whom this world charms from Gospel duty. Woe to him who seeks to pour oil upon the waters when God has brewed… — Herman Melville
You don't want to loose your old friend - the misery - You have invested too much into false - Hence the fear to be… — Rajneesh
When something ought to be true then it proves to be a very powerful truth. — Marilynne Robinson
It is all very wonderful and mysterious, as all life is apt to be if you go a little below the crust, and are not… — E. Nesbit
Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true. — Francis Bacon
...memory is fragile and the space of a single life is brief, passing so quickly that we never get a chance to see the relationship… — Isabel Allende
Be true! Be true! Be true! Show freely to the world, if not your worst, yet some trait whereby the worst may be inferred! — Nathaniel Hawthorne
. . .and the thing that you know to be true is the lie that will kill you. — Glen Cook
I am not an atheist but an earthiest. Be true to the earth. — Edward Abbey

Who Wrote These Being True Quotes

718 authors contributed a total of 896 Being True Quotes, led by these top contributors: