Being True Quotes - Page 6

• If we do take statements to be the primary bearers of truth, there seems to be a very simple answer to the question, what is it for them to be true: for a statement to be true is for things to be as they are stated to be.

  J. L. Mackie

  Truth, Simple, Answers

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• When an image is said to be singular, it is meant that it is absolutely determinate in all respects. Every possible character, or the negative thereof, must be true of such an image.

  Charles Sanders Peirce

  Character, Negative, Said

  Charles Sanders Peirce, Nathan Houser, Christian J.W. J. W. Kloesel (1992). “The Essential Peirce, Volume 1: Selected Philosophical Writings? (1867–1893)”, p.47, Indiana University Press

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• To attract people, to win over people to that which I have realized as being true, that is called propaganda.

  Joseph Goebbels

  Winning, People, Propaganda

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• [Having perosonal trainer for the movie 'The back-up plan'] I felt like I had just given birth. He was like, "You can't eat anything but this. You've got to do what I say." So along with doing the film, I did this kind of disciplined workout regimen, because every cheese farmer is ripped and buff, and I wanted to be true to character, because I'm Method. But it took a lot of hard work to get there. You can rest assured in the fact that it's all gone now.

  Jennifer Lopez

  Workout, Hard Work, Character

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• The whole point to American journalism is what ought to be true is true. Since I ought to be arrogant, impressed with my social position, overwhelmed by my beauty, therefore I am.

  Gore Vidal

  Arrogant, Overwhelmed, Journalism

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I became a vegetarian 55 years ago, and I think it's one of the more important behavioral changes I ever took. The more I see of the beef industry and so on, I believe that to be true.

  John Elkington

  Believe, Thinking, Years

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• You have to let your music be true and then people who want to adopt it as that, they take it on and they love it, and it changes their world.

  Billy Sherwood

  People, World, Want

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• A lot of people say there is no happiness in this life, and certainly there's no permanent happiness. But self-sufficiency creates happiness. Happiness is a state of bliss. Just because you're satisfied one moment - saying yes, it's a good meal, makes me happy - well, that's not going to necessarily be true the next hour. Life has its ups and downs, and time has to be your partner. Time is your soul mate. Children are happy. But they haven't really experienced ups and downs yet. I'm not exactly sure what happiness even means. I don't know if I personally could define it.

  Bob Dylan

  Children, Mean, Self

  "Bob Dylan: 'Passion is a young man's game, older people gotta be wise'". Interview with Robert Love, www.independent.co.uk. February 7, 2015.

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• The joy is in the creation. So I've never had a target audience, it's always been about being true to the work as it emerges.

  Rob Bell

  Target Audience, Joy, Creation

  Source: missionaryrenegade2013.blogspot.com

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• I think it's important to just be a good, honest person and be true to who you are.

  Mila Kunis

  Thinking, Important, Honest

  "We Drank Bourbon With Mila Kunis. Be Jealous". Interview with Robert Haynes-Peterson, www.askmen.com.

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• And know if I'll only be true to the glorious quest That my heart lies peaceful and calm When I'm laid to my rest.

  Joe Darion

  Peace, Lying, Heart

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• Human life is a series of compromises, and it is not always easy to achieve in practice what one has found to be true in theory.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Life, Practice, Compromise

  Mahatma Gandhi, Anand T. Hingorani, Ganga Anand Hingorani (1985). “The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts”

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• Religion to be true must satisfy what may be termed humanitarian economics, that is, where the income and the expenditure balance each other.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Religion, Balance, Income

  Mahatma Gandhi (1954). “How to Serve the Cow”

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• Knowledge and devotion, to be true, have to stand the test of renunciation of the fruits of action.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Knowledge, Tests, Fruit

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Ronald Duncan (2005). “Gandhi: Selected Writings”, p.37, Courier Corporation

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• Personal style is about taking a risk, trying something unexpected, and having fun with fashion, but always being true to yourself.

  Ralph Lauren

  Fashion, Fun, Risk

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• The key to success is to be true to who you really are.

  Dan Miller

  Keys, Key To Success

  Dan Miller (2008). “No More Dreaded Mondays: Ignite Your Passion - and Other Revolutionary Ways to Discover Your True Calling at Work”, p.180, Crown Business

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• It's not about going around trying to stir up trouble. As long as you're honest and you articulate what you believe to be true, somebody somewhere will become your enemy whether you like it or not.

  Criss Jami

  Believe, Long, Enemy

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.43, Criss Jami

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• Ah, love, let us be true
  To one another!

  Matthew Arnold

  Love, Certitude

  "Dover Beach" l. 29 (1867)

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• God split himself into a myriad parts that he might have friends. This may not be true, but it sounds good, and is no sillier than any other theology.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Religion, Sound, Splits

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.322, Penguin

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• Detective stories keep alive a view of the world which ought to be true. Of course people read them for fun ... But underneath they feed a hunger for justice ... you offer to divert them, and you show them by stealth the orderly world in which we should all try to be living.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Fun, Views, Justice

  Dorothy L. Sayers, Jill Paton Walsh (1999). “Thrones, Dominations”, p.126, Macmillan

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• People have an annoying tendency to compare shoe prices with the cost of other things. They might say, 'Wow - those shoes cost as much as a sofa!' Well, this may be true, but the comparison is so silly. After all, you can't wear a sofa.

  Mimi Pond

  Silly, Shoes, People

  Mimi Pond (1985). “Shoes never lie”, Berkley Pub Group

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• All the higher forms of life have evolved from some one's ideal of justice, liberty or beauty; and the belief that nothing is too good to be true.

  Alice Hegan Rice

  Justice, Liberty, Belief

  Alice Hegan Rice (2013). “My Pillow Book”, p.59, Read Books Ltd

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• If our friends' idealizations of us need the corrective of our own experience, it may be true also that our own sordid view of our lives needs the corrective of our friends' idealizations.

  Oscar W. Firkins

  Views, Needs, May

  Oscar W. Firkins (1934). “Memoirs and Letters”, p.45, U of Minnesota Press

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• The most important thing, my father told me, which I have never forgotten, and which I have often put unto practice was: If you get into a quarrel with anybody, hit him first. "If you hit first, the battle is half-won," my father always said "Don't let him hit first. You hit him first." "What's more," he never forgot to say, too "Usually one blow is all you need." I found this to be true.

  Christopher Vokes

  Father, Blow, Practice

  "Vokes - My Story" by Chris Vokes, John Philip Maclean, (p. 8), 1985.

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• Will it be said that the judgment of a male of two years old, is more sage than that of a female's of the same age? I believe the reverse is generally observed to be true. But from that period what partiality! how is the one exalted, and the other depressed, by the contrary modes of education which are adopted! the one is taught to aspire, and the other is early confined and limited. As their years increase, the sister must be wholly domesticated, while the brother is led by the hand through all the flowery paths of science.

  Judith Sargent Murray

  Brother, Believe, Hands

  Judith Sargent Murray, Sharon M. Harris (1995). “Selected Writings of Judith Sargent Murray”, p.6, Oxford University Press on Demand

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