Being True Quotes - Page 16

• There is the greatest difference between presuming an opinion to be true, because, with every opportunity for contesting it, it has not been refuted, and assuming its truth for the purpose of not permitting its refutation.

  John Stuart Mill

  Opportunity, Differences, Purpose

  Source: www.usconstitution.net

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• We have hitherto considered only two possibilities: that the received opinion may be false, and some other opinion, consequently, true; or that, the received opinion being true, a conflict with the opposite error is essential to a clear apprehension and deep feeling of its truth. But there is a commoner case than either of these; when the conflicting doctrines, instead of being one true and the other false, share the truth between them.

  John Stuart Mill

  Opposites, Two, Errors

  Source: www.usconstitution.net

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• I noticed some time ago that neither of the candidates are quoting the founders. If they are, they're doing it so rarely that I haven't noticed, or enough to be negligible. Certainly, neither is invoking the image of [George] Washington at Valley Forge or the Shining City Upon a Hill. In addition to this being true for John McCain and Barack Obama, it was true for Hillary Clinton as well.

  Paul Kengor

  Cities, Shining, Valleys

  Source: www.visionandvalues.org

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• I think all of us in the commentary business need to take a deep breath. And it can't be true that every single week the world is ending in some different way. And this presidency [of Donald Trump] will be judged like all presidencies - on the state of the economy and by events.

  Rich Lowry

  Thinking, Needs, World

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• Everyone who makes a Star Wars film wants to make it their own but they also have to be true to the concept.

  Mads Mikkelsen

  Stars, War, Want

  Source: screenrant.com

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• [Donald Trump] went on to, you know, otherize Muslims, otherize Latinos, otherize women, that he built out from that. And it can be true that a unique, you know, individual like Barack Obama can succeed in spite of that and still be the case that that force is quite, quite strong.

  Ta-Nehisi Coates

  Strong, Unique, Succeed

  Source: www.npr.org

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• The African had opinions about the universe that eventually turned out to be true.

  John Henrik Clarke

  Opinion, Universe

  Source: www.ourtimepress.com

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• With no specific procedure, man arrived at sweeping conclusions about the universe that have proven to be true.

  John Henrik Clarke

  Men, Procedures, Conclusion

  Source: www.ourtimepress.com

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• In Europe, where the terrorist threat is probably greatest at the moment, the amount of information-sharing that's been taking place, the effectiveness of law enforcement across borders gives us the ability to protect ourselves while still being true to the basic precepts of our liberal democracies. I hope that that continues, and it is something that I think we should be worried about.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, Europe, Law

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• It may be true that artists adopt a flamboyant appearance, but it's also true that people who look funny get stuck with the arts.

  Quentin Crisp

  Art, People, Looks

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• America that has done more to support Israel than any other country cannot be true to our own values if we allow a viable two-state solution to be destroyed before our own eyes.

  John F. Kerry

  Country, Eye, America

  Source: www.npr.org

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• [Some of the people I'd met] were wonderful people as human beings, and some people were more difficult. I could not see a correlation between their particular genius in playing chess and music and mathematics, etc. ... with human qualities. Some were really good, wonderful people, and some were difficult characters, but there was no clear correlation. But when I met some spiritual masters, [I thought that] there had to be a correlation, and it turned out to be true.

  Matthieu Ricard

  Spiritual, Character, People

  Source: www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu

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• Be true to yourself. Never compromise.

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  Be True To Yourself, Compromise, True To Yourself

  Source: youknowigotsoul.com

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• If you ask me what people want from me, they would probably just want me to be true to what I'm doing.

  El-P

  People, Want, Ask Me

  Source: www.billboard.com

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• The same would be true for something like Social Security, where historically, if you just read the law and the fact that it excluded domestic workers or agricultural workers, you might not see race in it, unless you knew that that covered a huge chunk of African Americans, particularly in the South.

  Barack Obama

  Race, Law, African American

  Source: www.theatlantic.com

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• I can think about what [Mahatma] Gandhi said or [Martin Luther] King said about violence begetting violence, and still be true to my job by asking myself the question whenever we're confronted with a situation where some may be arguing for military action: Will this actually result in America being safer, or the most lives being saved?

  Barack Obama

  Kings, Jobs, Military

  Source: www.theatlantic.com

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• Evolutionary theory has nothing to say, in general, as to whether cheating is more advantageous than cooperating. There are many circumstances in which the contrary would be true, and empirical evidence, though it exists, has little bearing on real situations.

  Noam Chomsky

  Cheating, Real, Would Be

  Source: libcom.org

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• It's easy to be drowned out by the crowd, but to thine own self be true, say I, no matter what everybody says, no matter what the popular vibe is.

  Gene Simmons

  Self, Crowds, Matter

  Source: www.news-leader.com

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• Be true to what you want to say, or whatever style it is that you've chosen or genre you've chosen. Do it well! My criteria always has been that the piece must stand the chance of succeeding on the level it's intended to succeed on.

  John Hurt

  Style, Pieces, Levels

  Source: www.filmslatemagazine.com

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• Life is going to be a constant peeling back of layers, a constant unlearning of what we've been taught or believe to be true. I think that I've come to terms with the fact that that's just going to happen for the whole duration of my life. I feel really good about being able to look myself in the face and say, "Oh, who are you now?" And that might change.

  Alicia Keys

  Believe, Thinking, Duration

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I'm always gratified when I check something I've made up and discover that I've gotten it right. How can we imagine something that turns out to be true? How can we know things we couldn't possibly know? It makes me wonder about the existence of a collective unconscious.

  Janet Fitch

  Collective Unconscious, Wonder, Imagine

  Source: www.oprah.com

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• The getting out part [of advise] may well be true. Because if you have tried the tender love thing... typically the abuser is not going to change until they are pushed in a corner.

  Gary Chapman

  May, Tender Love, Wells

  Source: www.crosswalk.com

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• If I can keep myself worthy here, if I can be true to gospel commandments, if I can keep covenants that I have made, the blessings of exaltation and eternal life that Heavenly Father holds out to all of His children apply to me. Every blessing - including eternal marriage - is and will be mine in due course.

  Lance B. Wickman

  Children, Father, Blessing

  Source: www.mormonnewsroom.org

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• But a big paradigm shift is staring us in the face. If I left things to someone else despite having my own thoughts on it, I wouldn't be true to myself.

  Masayoshi Son

  Faces, Bigs, Staring

  Source: asia.nikkei.com

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  Music is an art and art has its own rules. And one of them is that you must pay more attention to it than anything else in the world, if you are going to be true to yourself. And if you don't do it - and you are an artist - it punishes you.

  Nina Simone

  Art, Attention, World

  Source: www.musicismysanctuary.com

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