True Ones Quotes

• The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.

  Richard Bach

  Life, Family, Spiritual

  Richard Bach (2012). “Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah”, p.65, Delta

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• Friend is a very small word, A little sound we make, For one who is true, one who will do, Great deeds for friendship's sake.

  Brian Jacques

  Sake, Sound, Deeds

  Brian Jacques (2004). “The Bellmaker: A Tale from Redwall”, p.109, Penguin

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• He prayed on Fridays with the Muslims, on Saturdays with the Jews and on Sundays with the Christians. 'Since each religion claims that it is the only true one and that the others are invalid', the king explained, 'I have decided to hedge my bets'.

  Ahmad ibn Rustah

  Christian, Friday, Kings

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• I'll tell you that for me, one when someone used to say something that was true, one way I knew it was true was that I immediately felt defensive. I blocked it off, and I went to war with them in my mind and suffered all that goes with it. And they were only saying what was true.

  Byron Katie

  War, Mind, Way

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• Action will furnish belief,-but will that belief be the true one? This is the point, you know.

  Arthur Hugh Clough

  Statistics, Belief, Action

  Arthur Hugh Clough, Joseph Phelan (2016). “Clough: Selected Poems”, p.122, Routledge

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• The recipe for success is a tried and true one here in Rhode Island - innovation, reform, public service.

  Donald L. Carcieri

  Rhode Island, Islands, Innovation

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• It has generally been assumed that of two opposing systems of philosophy, e.g., realism and idealism, one only can be true and one must be false; and so philosophers have been hopelessly divided on the question, which is the true one.

  Morris Raphael Cohen

  Philosophy, Two, Philosopher

  The Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 7, p. 407, 1910.

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• The simplest and most obvious cause which can there be assigned for any phenomena, is probably the true one.

  David Hume

  Words Of Wisdom, Causes, Obvious

  David Hume (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of David Hume (Illustrated)”, p.1189, Delphi Classics

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• Good manners have much to do with the emotions. To make them ring true, one must feel them, not merely exhibit them.

  Amy Vanderbilt

  Good Man, Emotion, Manners

  Amy Vanderbilt (1954). “Amy Vanderbilt's complete book of etiquette: a guide to gracious living”

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• It cannot be, because the way man has treated woman has been basically wrong. Only between two equal persons is there a possibility of relationship, because fear is not there - one can be open, one can be true, one can be honest. Only between two equal persons, when there is no fear, is there love. Love arises when fear has left you. When fear is there, love cannot enter: they are never together.

  Rajneesh

  Relationship, Men, Two

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• Those who conquer their minds are beings of renunciation and detachment. They are beings of renunciation and detachment they are lovingly focused on the True One, they realize and understand themselves.

  Guru Nanak

  Mind, Realizing, Conquer

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• The True One was there from time immemorial.
  He is there today and ever there you will find.
  He never died nor will he ever die. ...
  Look within, you will see Him there enshrined.

  Guru Nanak

  Looks, Today, Died

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• How thoughtful of God to arrange matters so that, wherever you happen to be born, the local religion always turns out to be the true one.

  Richard Dawkins

  Thoughtful, Matter, Born

  Twitter post from May 22, 2014

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• You must be asking which door is the true one; not which pleases you best

  C. S. Lewis

  Doors, Asking, Denominations

  C. S. Lewis (2009). “Mere Christianity”, p.16, Harper Collins

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• There's been a number of erroneous biographies, articles and so on written about Billy and we both thought it would be a good idea to produce a true one.

  Pamela Stephenson

  Ideas, Numbers, Would Be

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• Why all of these broken homes? What happens to marriages that begin with sincere love and a desire to be loyal and faithful and true one to another? There is no simple answer. I acknowledge that. But it appears to me that there are some obvious reasons that account for a very high percentage of these problems. I say this out of experience in dealing with such tragedies. I find selfishness to be the root cause of most of it.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Home, Simple, Loyal And Faithful

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• Liberal learning is both a safeguard against false ideas of freedom and a source of true ones.

  Alfred Whitney Griswold

  Ideas, Source

  Alfred Whitney Griswold (1957). “In the university tradition”

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• For small erections may be finished by their first architects; grand ones, true ones, ever leave the copestone to posterity. God keep me from ever completing anything. This whole book is but a draught—nay, but the draught of a draught. Oh, Time, Strength, Cash, and Patience!

  Herman Melville

  Book, Cash, May

  Herman Melville (2008). “Moby-Dick”, p.159, Velvet Element Books

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• Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, True Friend, Mind Your Own Business

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.67, Anchor

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• Our first intuitions are the true ones.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Intuition, Firsts

  Emile M. Cioran (1976). “The Trouble with Being Born”, Viking Books

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• True opinions can prevail only if the facts to which they refer are known; if they are not known, false ideas are just as effective as true ones, if not a little more effective.

  Walter Lippmann

  Ideas, Justice, Littles

  Walter Lippmann (2012). “Liberty and the News”, p.42, Courier Corporation

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• In any war story, but especially a true one, it's difficult to separate what happened from what seemed to happen. What seems to happen becomes its own happening and has to be told that way. The angles of vision are skewed. When a booby trap explodes, you close your eyes and duck and float outside yourself. .. The pictures get jumbled, you tend to miss a lot. And then afterward, when you go to tell about it, there is always that surreal seemingness, which makes the story seem untrue, but which in fact represents the hard and exact truth as it seemed.

  Tim O'Brien

  War, Eye, Ducks

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• To do well those thing which God ordained to be the common lot of all man-kind, is the truest greatness. To be a successful father or a successful mother is greater than to be a successful general or a successful statesman... We should never be discouraged in those daily tasks which God has ordained to the common lot of man... Let us not be trying to substitute an artificial life for the true one.

  Joseph Fielding Smith

  Mother, Father, Successful

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• The interpretation that makes you ardent and hopeful and active and reverent is the true one.

  Rumi

  Hopeful, Interpretation, Active

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• . . . a woman can be a woman and a true one without having all her time engrossed by dress and society.

  M. Carey Thomas

  Dresses

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