Being True Quotes - Page 30

• Though it is very important for man as an individual that his religion should be true, that is not the case for society. Society has nothing to fear or hope from another life; what is most important for it is not that all citizens profess the true religion but that they should profess religion.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Men, Multicultural Society, Religion

  Alexis de Tocqueville (1990). “Democracy in America”

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• It is finally when you let go of what people expect you to be and people's perceptions of you that you're able to be the version of yourself that you're supposed to be - like in God's eyes. It doesn't matter if you're half crazy, or eccentric, or whatever it is - that you have to be true to who you were born to be.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Letting Go, Crazy, Eye

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• If it be true that spirit is involved in Matter and apparent Nature is secret God, then the manifestation in the divine in himself and the realization of God within and without are the highest and most legitimate aim possible to man on earth.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Nature, Men, Secret

  Sri Aurobindo (2016). “The Life Divine: Art of living”, p.9, editionNEXT.com

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• I want to try different things but, most importantly, always be true to my roots and keep it organic. I'm never going to leave bachata behind. I'm always going to be a bachatero first.

  Romeo Santos

  Roots, Trying, Different

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• I once said that effort is between you, and you, and nobody else. The same can be true between and individual and their camera. What you're shooting is between you and you and nobody else. Outcomes are for the audience. The action is yours alone.

  Ray Lewis

  Effort, Cameras, Shooting

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• The most important thing is to be true to yourself, however you feel, and not try to feel or behave differently because you think you should, or someone has told you how you must feel. But do think about it. Unexamined feelings lead to all kinds of trouble.

  Garth Nix

  Life, Thinking, Feelings

  Garth Nix (2014). “Clariel”, p.20, Hot Key Books

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• Courage and confidence are practical necessities . . . courage is the practical form of being true to existence, of being true to truth, and confidence is the practical form of being true to one’s own consciousness.

  Ayn Rand

  Consciousness, Form, Existence

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.127, Penguin

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• It is the inner commitment to be true to ourselves and follow our dreams that triggers the support of the universe.

  Julia Cameron

  Dream, Commitment, Support

  FaceBook post by Julia Cameron from May 04, 2017

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• Adore God. Reverence and cherish your parents. Love your neighbor as yourself, and your country more than yourself. Be just. Be true. Murmur not at the ways of Providence. So shall the life into which you have entered be the portal to one of eternal and ineffable bliss.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Country, Love You, Parent

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs, Correspondence and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Late President of the United States”, p.423

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• My concern is how we learn to be genuine human beings.

  Lloyd Alexander

  Genuine, Concern, Humans

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• Whenever a new discovery is reported to the world, they say first, It is probably not true, Then after, when the truth of the new proposition has been demonstrated beyond question, they say, Yes, it may be true, but it is not important. Finally, when sufficient time has elapsed to fully evidence its importance, they say, Yes, surely it is important, but it is no longer new.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Discovery, Important, World

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• I have only to be true to the highest I know - success or failure is in the hand of God.

  E. Stanley Jones

  Faith, Hands, Knows

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• Some of what these pamphlets [of astrological forecasts] say will turn out to be true, but most of it time and experience will expose as empty and worthless. The latter part will be forgotten literally: written on the winds while the former will be carefully entered in people's memories, as is usual with the crowd.

  Johannes Kepler

  Memories, Wind, Astrology

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• I hear people say, "It's not the quantity of time that's important; it's the quality." Well, technically that may be true, but quality doesn't happen in a hurry.

  Gloria Gaither

  Time, People, Important

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• I wanted it not to be true. I wanted it not to be her plane. I wanted it - I wanted, if it was her plane, to have somehow survived because she was in the back of the airplane. But we know that doesn't happen, not with those sorts of things.

  Ted Olson

  Airplane, Planes, Wanted

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• Diderot took the ground that, if orthodox religion be true Christ was guilty of suicide. Having the power to defend himself he should have used it.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Suicide, Should Have, Guilty

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.794, Library of Alexandria

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• I have to keep working, not to arrive at finish, which arouses the admiration of fools... I must seek completion only for the pleasure of being truer and more knowing.

  Paul Cezanne

  Work, Knowing, Fool

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• The current wisdom now is that if the three networks are covering the news the same way the difference is the anchor people. I think that won't be true in the future.

  Roone Arledge

  Thinking, Anchors, Differences

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• Be true to yourself. Don't take no for an answer. And start your Transcendental Meditation.

  David Lynch

  Meditation, Answers, Be True To Yourself

  "Watch: David Lynch Gives Some Pithy Filmmaking Advice On Instagram" by Paula Bernstein, www.indiewire.com. August 28, 2013.

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• We must be true inside, true to ourselves, before we can know a truth that is outside us. But we make ourselves true inside by manifesting the truth as we see it.

  Thomas Merton

  Manifest, Knows

  Thomas Merton (2005). “No Man is an Island”, p.198, Shambhala Publications

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• There is in the blind as in the seeing an Absolute which gives truth to what we know to be true, order to what is orderly, beauty to the beautiful, touchableness to what is tangible.

  Helen Keller

  Beautiful, Order, Giving

  Helen Keller (2009). “The World I Live in”, p.132, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Sincerity seems to be a problem today. I'd rather be true and hated than be false and fool people.

  Kristen Stewart

  People, Today, Fool

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• Be brave and clear. Follow your heart and don't be overly influenced by outside factors. Be true to yourself.

  Shirley Temple

  Heart, Brave, Be True To Yourself

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• We must be true to each other.

  Lucy Stone

  Relationship

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• I find science so much more fascinating than science fiction. It also has the advantage of being true.

  Carl Sagan

  Science, Fiction, Advantage

  Carl Sagan, Tom Head (2006). “Conversations with Carl Sagan”, p.47, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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