Being True Quotes - Page 39

• I take it to be true that pure thought can grasp the real, as the ancients had dreamed.

  Albert Einstein

  Real, Pure

  "Einstein's Philosophy of Science" by Don A. Howard, quoting "On the Method of Theoretical Physics", The Herbert Spencer Lecture, delivered at Oxford, June 10, 1933, plato.stanford.edu. February 11, 2004.

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• The authorities teach that next to the first emanation, which is the Son coming out of the Father, the angels are most like God. And it may well be true, for the soul at its highest is formed like God, but an angel gives a closer idea of Him. That is all an angel is: an idea of God. For this reason the angel was sent to the soul, so that the soul might be re-formed by it, to be the divine idea by which it was first conceived.

  Meister Eckhart

  Father, Angel, Son

  "The Reading and Preaching of the Scriptures in the Worship of the Christian Church". Multivolume study by Hughes Oliphant Old, 1999.

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• Convictions following the admission into evidence of confessions which are involuntary, i.e., the product of coercion, either physical or psychological, cannot stand. This is so not because such confessions are unlikely to be true but because the methods used to extract them offend an underlying principle in the enforcement of our criminal law: that ours is an accusatorial, and not an inquisitorial, system - a system in which the State must establish guilt by evidence independently and freely secured, and may not, by coercion, prove its charges against an accused out of his own mouth.

  Felix Frankfurter

  Law, Guilt, Principles

  "Rogers v. Richmond, 365 U.S. 534". U.S. Supreme Court case, supreme.justia.com. March 20, 1961.

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• Folks always seemed to think that as long as they didn't know about something bad, it wasn't happening, so whoever told them actually caused it to be true.

  Orson Scott Card

  Thinking, Long, Folks

  Orson Scott Card (2004). “The Crystal City: The Tales of Alvin Maker”, p.46, Macmillan

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• To a teenager, it cannot be true love if her family approves of him.

  Evan Esar

  Teenager, Approval, Ifs

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• In the natural state no concept of God can arise, and the false one which one makes for himself is harmful. Hence the theory of natural religion can be true only where there is no science; therefore it cannot bind all men together.

  Immanuel Kant

  Men, Together, Natural

  Immanuel Kant (1904). “The Educational Theory of Immanuel Kant”

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• If you're putting your name on something, it's really important to be a part of it, or else people will just do whatever they want with it. And then it's not really you, and it won't be true.

  Lauren Conrad

  Names, People, Important

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• Fidelity is simply daring to be true in small things as well as great.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Fidelity, Daring, Wells

  Henry Van Dyke (2007). “Counsels by the Way”, p.87, Wildside Press LLC

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• A single test which proves some piece of theory wrong is more valuable than a hundred tests showing that idea might be true.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Ideas, Pieces, Might

  Arthur C. Clarke, Stephen Baxter (2010). “The Light of Other Days”, p.76, Macmillan

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• Even an evil man can have principles—he can be true to his own evil, which is not always so easy.

  Norman Mailer

  Men, Evil, Principles

  Norman Mailer, Michael Lennon (1988). “Conversations with Norman Mailer”, p.88, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Whatever you believe to be true and false, that proclaim to be true and false; whatever you think admirable and beautiful, that should be your model, even if all your friends and all the critics storm at you as a crotchet-monger and an eccentric.

  George Henry Lewes

  Beautiful, Believe, Thinking

  George Henry Lewes (1891). “The Principles of Success in Literature”

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• We can be dramatic, even theatrical; we can be persuasive; but the message we are telling must be true.

  Edwin Land

  Messages, Dramatic, Persuasive

  "Edwin H. Land : Science, And Public Policy" by Richard L. Garwin, November 9, 1991.

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• Nothing in the world, no object or event, would be true or false if there were not thinking creatures.

  Donald Davidson

  Thinking, True Or False, Events

  Donald Davidson (2009). “Truth and Predication”, p.7, Harvard University Press

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• Emulation and imitation can legitimately influence one's development, but ultimately the artist must find his own path - and be true to himself.

  Ken Danby

  Artist, Emulation, Development

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• No parent or coach can be true to any child and say he's ready for the N.F.L. out of high school.

  Tony Dorsett

  Children, School, Parent

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• If it is too good to be true....it is probably a fraud.

  Ron Weber

  Too Good To Be True, Fraud, Ifs

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• I think now that maybe true sweetness can only happen in limbo. I don't know why. Is it because we are so unsure, so tentative and waiting? Like it needs that much room, that much space to expand. The not knowing anything really, the hoping, the aching transience: This is not real, not really, and so we let it alone, let it unfold lightly. Those times that can fly.

  Peter Heller

  Real, Thinking, Knowing

  Peter Heller (2012). “The Dog Stars”, p.216, Vintage

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• It has always been my goal to believe in what I do and love what I do and be true to that.

  Tony Iommi

  Believe, Goal, And Love

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• While it may be true – and probably is – that not all Muslims are terrorists, it also happens to be true that nearly all terrorists are Muslim.

  Dan Gillerman

  May, Terrorist, Happens

  "Amid AIPAC's Big Show, Straight Talk With a Noticeable Silence". www.washingtonpost.com. March 7, 2006.

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• The effectiveness of political and religious propaganda depends upon the methods employed, not upon the doctrines taught. These doctrines may be true or false, wholesome or pernicious it makes little or no difference.

  Aldous Huxley

  Religious, Differences, Effectiveness

  Aldous Huxley, Robert S. Baker, James Sexton (2002). “Complete Essays: 1956-1963, and supplement, 1920-1948”, Ivan R. Dee Publisher

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• Nothing is wholly obvious without becoming enigmatic. Reality itself is too obvious to be true .

  Jean Baudrillard

  Truth, Reality, Becoming

  Jean Baudrillard (2001). “Selected Writings”, p.270, Stanford University Press

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• If what the philosophers say be true, that all men's actions proceed from one source; that as they assent from a persuasion that a thing is so, and dissent from a persuasion that it is not, and suspend their judgment from a persuasion that it is uncertain, so likewise they seek a thing from a persuasion that it is for their advantage.

  Epictetus

  Men, Action, Philosopher

  Epictetus (1866). “The Works of Epictetus: Consisting of His Discourses, in Four Books, the Enchiridion, and Fragments”, p.54

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• The first requisite of a gentleman is to be true, brave and noble, and to be therefore a rebuke and scandal to venal and vulgar souls.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Brave, Soul, Gentleman

  John Lancaster Spalding (1901). “Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion”

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• Though what we accept be true, it is a prejudice unless we ourselves have considered and understood why and how it is true.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Prejudice, Accepting, Understood

  John Lancaster Spalding (1901). “Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion”

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• Each person is entitled to some version of God that seems real, yet many versions contradict one another. The God of any religion is only a fragment of God. This has to be true, because a being who is unbounded has no image, no role to play, no location either inside or outside the cosmos, whereas religions offer many images--father, mother, lawgiver, judge, ruler of the universe.

  Deepak Chopra

  Mother, Father, Real

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