Being True Quotes - Page 22

• Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child, cannot be true.

  Thomas Paine

  Children, Motivation, Fear

  The Age of Reason pt. 1 (1794)

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• Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.

  Blaise Pascal

  Fear, Hate, Men

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pensées”, p.300, Courier Corporation

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• My music is going to be true. I'm not out to sell records. I'm experiencing something, and it's what I feel.

  Joaquin Phoenix

  Records, Experiencing Something, Music Is

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• 'Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.

  Alexander Pope

  Nice, Stupid, Literature

  Alexander Pope (2015). “An Essay on Criticism”, p.17, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• What they will do is, you know the tabloids. They'll take one element of a story that may be true and they'll build everything around it. Take a picture and invent a story around it.

  Dennis Quaid

  Stories, Elements, Tabloids

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• You can be true to the character all you want but you've got to go home with yourself.

  Julia Roberts

  Home, Character, Want

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• In the execution of Presidential decisions work to be true to his views, in fact and tone.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Views, Presidential, Decision

  Donald Rumsfeld (2001). “Public Statements of Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, 2001”

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• The funny thing about advertising is that it's not a zero-sum game... Historically, in the digital ad world, pie has gotten larger and it's possible for everyone to win, and it's perfectly possible that will continue to be true for quite some time.

  Eric Schmidt

  Zero, Winning, Funny Things

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• The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Education, Teacher, Trying

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• There once was a demographic survey done to determine if money was connected to happiness and Ireland was the only place where this did not turn out to be true.

  Fiona Shaw

  Happiness, Done, Demographics

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Baloney is flattery laid on so thick it cannot be true, and blarney is flattery so thin we love it.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Love, Funny, Humor

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Truth, Science, Ideas

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• What is really beautiful must always be true.

  Stendhal

  Beauty, Beautiful, Really Beautiful

  Stendhal (2015). “Armance”, p.51, Booklassic

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• Be true to yourself and go with your instincts - don't be somebody you're not just to fit in.

  Rachel Stevens

  Be True To Yourself, Fit, Instinct

  Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. July 9, 2004.

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• There are some who think that the government is limited in how many corruption cases it can bring against Wall Street, because juries can't understand the complexity of the financial schemes involved. But in 'U.S.A. v. Carollo,' that turned out not to be true.

  Matt Taibbi

  Wall, Thinking, Government

  "The Scam Wall Street Learned From the Mafia". Article by Matt Taibbi, www.rollingstone.com. June 21, 2012.

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• After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.

  H. G. Wells

  Numbers, People, Phrases

  HG Wells, Rudy Rucker, Colin Wilson (2013). “The Last Books of H.G. Wells: The Happy Turning: A Dream of Life & Mind at the End of its Tether”, p.4, Monkfish Book Publishing

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• If you look at the common denominator of all the comics who have had big success, it's being true to their nature... that's what takes a long time to learn.

  Ron White

  Long, Looks, Common

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• When you're a liar, a person of low moral fortitude, really any explanation you need to be true can be true. Especially if you're smart enough. You can figure out a way to justify anything.

  Samuel Witwer

  Smart, Liars, Needs

  "Sam Witwer on Darth Maul’s ‘Clone Wars’ Fate: ‘He’s Playing a Long Game’". Interview with Christian Blauvelt, www.hollywood.com.

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• Well, if you're true to yourself you're going to be true to everyone else.

  John Wooden

  True To Yourself, Wells, Ifs

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• Knowing that the gospel is true is the essence of a testimony. Consistently being true to the gospel is the essence of conversion.

  David A. Bednar

  Essence, Knowing, Testimony

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• Admiration from my readers inspire me, and the only 'formula' I believe in towards making a good writer is: 'to thine own self be true!'

  Ashwin Sanghi

  Believe, Self, Inspire

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• If we take all this actions and if it turns out not be true, we have reduced pollution and have better ways to live, the downside is very small. The other way around, and we don’t act, and it turns out to be true, then we have betrayed future generations and we don’t have the right to do that.

  Tony Blair

  Betrayed, Way, Generations

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• I heard somebody open and shut the gate to the barn lot, but I didn't look around. If I didn't look around it would not be true that somebody had opened the gate with the creaky hinges, and that is a wonderful principle for a man to get hold of... What you don't know know don't hurt you, for it ain't real. They called that Idealism in my book I had when I was in college, and after I got hold of that principle I became an Idealist... If you are an Idealist it does not matter what you do or what goes on around you because it isn't real anyway.

  Robert Penn Warren

  Hurt, Real, Book

  Robert Penn Warren (2006). “All the King's Men”, p.45, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Ah, love, let us be true To one another! for the world, which seems To lie before us like a land of dreams, So various, so beautiful, so new, Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light, Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain; And we are here as on a darkling plain Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, Where ignorant armies clash by night.

  Matthew Arnold

  Life, Beautiful, Dream

  "Dover Beach" l. 35 (1867)

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• Let me go: take back thy gift: Why should a man desire in any way To vary from the kindly race of men, Or pass beyond the goal of ordinance Where all should pause, as is most meet for all? ...Why wilt thou ever scare me with thy tears, And make me tremble lest a saying learnt, In days far-off, on that dark earth, be true? ‘The Gods themselves cannot recall their gifts.’ - Tithonus

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Dark, Men, Race

  'Tithonus' (1860, revised 1864) l. 46

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