Being True Quotes - Page 14

• When things are not working for us, instead of fighting and struggling, we need to say, "What's happening here? How am I not being true to who I am? What is pulling me away from my purpose?"

  June Singer

  Struggle, Healing, Fighting

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• What we remember, and how we order and interpret what we believe to be true, are what shapes who we are.

  Stephen Elliott

  Believe, Order, Shapes

  Stephen Elliott (2010). “The Adderall Diaries: A Memoir of Moods, Masochism, and Murder (Large Print 16pt)”, p.245, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• It has been thought that the people are not competent electors of judges learned in the law. But I do not know this to be true, and, if doubtful, we should follow principle.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Law, People, Judging

  Thomas Jefferson, Jean M. Yarbrough (1963). “The Essential Jefferson”, p.241, Hackett Publishing

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• Let your pain be my sorrow. Let your tears be my tears too. Let your courage be my model. That the north you find will be true.

  Sting

  Courage, Pain, Bravery

  Sting (2009). “Lyrics”, p.202, Dial Press

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• Dilbert: Evolution must be true because it is a logical conclusion of the scientific method.
  Dogbert: But science is based on the irrational belief that because we cannot perceive reality all at once, things called time and cause and effect exist.
  Dilbert: That's what I was taught and that's what I believe.
  Dogbert: Sounds cultish.

  Scott Adams

  Believe, Science, Reality

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• Be true to your own highest convictions.

  William Ellery Channing

  Conviction, Highest

  William Ellery CHANNING (1839). “Self-Culture. An address introductory to the Franklin lectures, delivered at Boston. 1838”, p.18

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• It is sufficient to say, what everybody knows to be true, that the Irish population is Catholic, and that the Protestants, whether of the Episcopalian or Presbyterian Church, or of both united, are a small minority of the Irish people.

  John Bright

  People, Catholic, Church

  John Bright (1869). “Speeches on Questions of Public Policy: By John Bright. Edited by James E. Thorold Rogers. In 2 Volumes”, p.534

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• He that denies any of the doctrines that Christ has delivered, to be true, denies him to be sent from God, and consequently to be the Messiah; and so ceases to be a Christian.

  John Locke

  Christian, Doctrine, Deny

  John Locke (1824). “The Works of John Locke: The reasonableness of Christianity. A vindication of the Reasonableness of Christianity, from Mr. Edward's reflections. A second vindication”, p.232

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• What is not in nature can never be true.

  Voltaire

  Nature, Truth

  Voltaire (2007). “The Complete Romances of Voltaire”, p.384, Wildside Press LLC

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• When you try to be true to the script, changes occur. A script is there to show us a certain direction. But when you actually have the actors in and you start shooting the movie, you have the actor say a line and it doesn't sound right so you change it and make it different. It's the script that gives birth to these changes and the more you try to stay true to the script, the more that happens.

  Takashi Miike

  Giving, Trying, Sound

  Source: collider.com

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• There are messages about civilisations and we are trying to be true to history as much as possible. We wanted all this to gel with some good theory about why these civilisations went down, why they weakened and crumbled. Because they did, they vanished.

  Mel Gibson

  Trying, Messages, Theory

  "Apocalypto - Mel Gibson interview". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• The job of the novel is to be true to the confusion, but not so confusing that you turn the reader off.

  Nicholson Baker

  Jobs, Confusion, Confusing

  "Nicholson Baker Navigates The Buffet". Interview with Jared Levy, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 16, 2013.

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• I think being a woman alone enhanced the impulse in others to be generous. What we're told is that to be a woman alone is to be in a dangerous situation. The message is that people are gong to prey on you and do bad things to you. That may be true in some cases, but what I experienced was the other case.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Thinking, Dangerous Situations, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Just to be true to myself, which is why I did this movie. I figured everyone was going to freak out and say, 'Why would you do that after Dorothy Dandridge?' My answer is 'Because I can.' And that feels really good to be comfortable saying that.

  Halle Berry

  Movie, Actors, Answers

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• I think about the sincerity of my writing. I try to be true, to pose questions. Shake people up a bit and make them look in a direction they wouldn't normally.

  Philippe Claudel

  Writing, Thinking, People

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• I have never thought that I have sacrificed anything being a writer. That might not be true, maybe I have sacrificed something. Maybe I've given something up, but I can't think of it.

  Walter Mosley

  Thinking, Might, Given

  Big Think Interview with Andrew Dermont, bigthink.com. November 10, 2010.

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• The Chinese are quite entrepreneurial. Remember when Lenovo bought IBM's PC division. It was said that China didn't need a brand name, China didn't need to buy Lenovo to get into the PC business, I remember reading a one-liner somewhere which struck me as quite possibly true, it said the one thing that the Chinese had not been able to copy or figure out was the way, in terms of systems, that Americans - it probably would be true for Europeans as well - that Americans install and live by their management systems, while China is still quite half-assed. Perhaps that is a true statement.

  Tom Peters

  Reading, Names, Chinese

  Source: iveybusinessjournal.com

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• Infidelity is seated in the heart; its origin is not in the head. It is the wish that Christianity might not be true, that leads to an argument to prove it.

  Charles Simmons

  Heart, Infidelity, Wish

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• In regard to the philosophers, if they be true philosophers, i.e., lovers of truth, they should not be irritated that the earth moves. Rather, if they realize that they have held a false belief, they should thank those have shown them the truth; and if their opinion stands firm that the earth doesn't move, they will have reason to boast than be angered.

  Galileo Galilei

  Moving, Earth, Belief

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• It might not be true, but that doesn't mean it's nonsense.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Mean, Might, Nonsense

  Patrick Rothfuss (2011). “The Wise Man's Fear”, p.322, Penguin

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• Progress, then, is a property of the evolution of life as a whole by almost any conceivable intuitive standard.... let us not pretend to deny in our philosophy what we know in our hearts to be true.

  E. O. Wilson

  Philosophy, Heart, Progress

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• When you first hear about this guy (Stan Musial), you say, 'it can't be true.' When you first meet him you say, 'It must be an act.' But as you watch him and watch him and see how he performs and how he comports himself you say, 'He's truly one of a kind.' There will never be another like him.

  Jack Buck

  Guy, Watches, Firsts

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• We're convinced we need money to have friends and partners, but actually I've found the opposite to be true.

  Mark Boyle

  Opposites, Needs, Found

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• The most fundamental attack on freedom is the attack on critical thinking skills. Comments display our universal failure to teach and value critical thinking, leaving the possibility open that both everything and nothing could be true.

  Travis Nichols

  Thinking, Skills, Leaving

  "Scratches in the Temple Wall". Interview with Paul Killebrew, logger.believermag.com. July 29, 2013.

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• In a speech in Texas, Donald Trump called Hillary Clinton 'easily the worst Secretary of State in the history of our country.' When asked what he based that on, Trump said, 'I heard ME say it just now. So it's gotta be true.'

  Jimmy Fallon

  Country, Texas, Speech

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