Being True Quotes - Page 37

• The gift, to be true, must be the flowing of the giver unto me, correspondent to my flowing unto him.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Giver

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.537, Library of America

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• The traitor to Humanity is the traitor most accursed; Man is more than Constitutions; better rot beneath the sod, Than be true to Church and State while we are doubly false to God.

  James Russell Lowell

  Men, Humanity, Church

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.82

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• If it be true that good wine needs no bush, 'tis true that a good play needs no epilogue.

  William Shakespeare

  Wine, Play, Acting

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 5, sc. 4, epilogue l. [3]

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• If evolution and the survival of the fittest be true at all, the destruction of prey and of human rivals must have been among the most important. . . . It is just because human bloodthirstiness is such a primitive part of us that it is so hard to eradicate, especially when a fight or a hunt is promised as part of the fun.

  William James

  Fun, Fighting, Survival

  William James (1918). “The Principles of Psychology, Vol. 2”, p.412, Courier Corporation

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• On cannot be precise, and still be true.

  Marc Chagall

  Truth, Stills, Precise

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• Either Christianity is true or it's false. If you bet that it's true, and you believe in God and submit to Him, then if it IS true, you've gained God, heaven, and everything else. If it's false, you've lost nothing, but you've had a good life marked by peace and the illusion that ultimately, everything makes sense. If you bet that Christianity is not true, and it's false, you've lost nothing. But if you bet that it's false, and it turns out to be true, you've lost everything and you get to spend eternity in hell.

  Blaise Pascal

  Good Life, Believe, Heaven

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• Nothing has to be true forever. Just for long enough, to tell you the truth.

  Terry Pratchett

  Long, Forever, Enough

  Terry Pratchett (2014). “The Truth: Stage Adaptation”, p.125, A&C Black

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• It may be true that there is no God here, but there must be one not far off, and at such a moment one feels His presence; which comes to the same as saying (and I readily give this sincere profession of faith): I believe in God, and that it is His wi

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Believe, Giving, May

  Vincent van Gogh (1959). “Complete Letters: With Reproductions of All the Drawings in the Correspondence”

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• Believe that story false that ought not to be true.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Believe, Stories, Scandal

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• A hypothesis is something which looks as if it might be true and were true, and which is capable of verification or refutation by comparison with facts.

  Charles Sanders Peirce

  Looks, Might, Facts

  Charles Sanders Peirce (1974). “Collected Papers”, p.48, Harvard University Press

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• Truth has to persist unaffected, in the past, present and future. That which is absent in two states, how can it be true.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Past, Two, States

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• It may be true that the government that governs best governs least Unfortunately, the same is also true of the government that governs worst.

  Jane Bowles

  Government, May, Worst

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• It's a good thing to learn early that other people's opinions do not matter, unless they happen to be true.

  Phyllis Bottome

  Learning, People, Matter

  Phyllis Bottome (1998). “The Mortal Storm”, p.190, Northwestern University Press

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• When you get into politics, you find that all your worst nightmares about it turn out to be true, and the people who are attracted to large concentrations of power are precisely the ones who should be kept as far away from it as possible.

  Ken Livingstone

  Power, Worst Nightmares, People

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• I've never found therapy to be a sign of weakness; I've found the opposite to be true. The willingness to have a mirror held up to you definitely requires strength.

  Brooke Shields

  Mirrors, Opposites, Weakness

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• As a matter of principle, humanity is precarious: each person can only believe what he recognizes to be true internally and, at the same time, nobody thinks or makes up his mind without already being caught up in certain relationships with others, which leads him to opt for a particular set of opinions.

  Maurice Merleau-Ponty

  Believe, Thinking, Humanity

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• Relaxed Empiricism -- I only believe something to be true if someone I know quite well tells me if happened.

  Bill Bailey

  Funny, Believe, Humor

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• The heroic hours of life do not announce their presence by drum and trumpet, challenging us to be true to ourselves by appeals to the martial spirit that keeps the blood at heat. Some little, unassuming, unobtrusive choice presents itself before us slyly and craftily, glib and insinuating, in the modest garb of innocence. . . . Then it is that you will be summoned to show the courage of adventurous youth.

  Benjamin Cardozo

  Character, Blood, Choices

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• Ah love, let us be true to one another, which seems to lie before us like a land of dreams; so various, so beautiful, so new, hath really neither joy nor love nor life.

  Matthew Arnold

  Happiness, Beautiful, Dream

  "Dover Beach" l. 29 (1867)

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• If it be true that a man is rich who wants nothing, a wise man is a very rich man.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Wise, Wisdom, Men

  "Characters: Of The Gifts of Fortune," #49, 1688.

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• The librarian of today, and it will be true still more of the librarians of tomorrow, are not fiery dragons interposed between the people and the books. They are useful public servants, who manage libraries in the interest of the public . . . Many still think that a great reader, or a writer of books, will make an excellent librarian. This is pure fallacy.

  William Osler

  Book, Thinking, Dragons

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• Trust, encouragement, reward, loyalty... satisfaction. That's what I'm... you know. Trust people and they'll be true to you. Treat them greatly, and they will show themselves to be great.

  Ricky Gervais

  Loyalty, Encouragement, People

  "The Office". TV Series, www.imdb.com. 2001 - 2003.

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• Today remind yourself that nothing is too good to be true. Your great hopes can be realized. Your most wonderful dreams can come true. All that you really need, you can have. An incredible goodness is operating on your behalf. If you are living a paltry life, resolve to stop it today. Expect great things to happen.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Motivational, Dream, Positive Energy

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• It is not the responsibility of the enlightened teacher to bring the student to enlightenment. That may be true in the classroom, but in the world of enlightenment you have to find it, enter into it.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Responsibility, Enlightenment

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• In the psychic process we are trying to eliminate everyone else from our minds, their effects, their energies, their influences: "To thine own self be true and it must follow as the night the day, thou cans't be false to any man."

  Frederick Lenz

  Night, Men, Psychics

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