Being True Quotes - Page 23

• Certainly my inner world will never be a peaceful place of bloom; it will have some peace, and occasional riots of bloom, but always a little fight going on too. There is no way I can be peacefully happy in this society and in this skin. I am committed to Uneasy Street. I like it; it is my idea that this street leads to the future, and that I am being true to a way of life which is not here yet, but is more real than what is here.

  James Tiptree Jr.

  Real, Fighting, Ideas

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• People are stupid... They will believe a lie because they want to believe it's true, or because they're afraid it might be true.

  Terry Goodkind

  Lying, Stupid, Believe

  "Wizard's First Rule". Book by Terry Goodkind, August 15, 1994.

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• I am but a poor struggling soul yearning to be wholly good, wholly truthful and wholly non-violent in thought, word and deed, but ever failing to reach the ideal which I know to be true. It is a painful climb, but each step upwards makes me feel stronger and fit for the next.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Spiritual, Struggle, Soul

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.56, A&C Black

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• --Why are we fighting them? --They're mad. We're sane. --How do we know? --That we're sane? --Yes. --Am I sane? --To all appearances. --And you, do you consider yourself sane? --I do. --Well, there you have it. --But don't they also consider themselves sane? --I think they know. Deep down. That they're not sane. --How must that make them feel? --Terrible, I should think. They must fight ever more fiercely, in order to deny what they know to be true. That they are not sane.

  Donald Barthelme

  Fighting, Thinking, Order

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• When I say 'I will be true to you' I am drawing a quiet space beyond the reach of other desires.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Drawing, Space, Desire

  Jeanette Winterson (2013). “Written On The Body”, p.77, Random House

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• Every reiteration of the idea that _nothing matters_ debases the human spirit. Every reiteration of the idea that there is no drama in modern life, there is only dramatization, that there is no tragedy, there is only unexplained misfortune, debases us. It denies what we know to be true. In denying what we know, we are as a nation which cannot remember its dreams--like an unhappy person who cannot remember his dreams and so denies that he does dream, and denies that there are such things as dreams.

  David Mamet

  Dream, Drama, Unhappy Person

  David Mamet (1986). “Writing in restaurants”, Viking Adult

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• It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words, "And this too, shall pass away." How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! How consoling in the depths of affliction!

  Abraham Lincoln

  Life, Encouraging, Wise

  Address beforeWisconsin State Agricultural Society, Milwaukee,Wis., 30 Sept. 1859

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• To be cheerful when others are in despair, to keep the faith when others falter, to be true even when we feel forsaken—all of these are deeply desired outcomes during the deliberate, divine tutorials which God gives to us—because He loves us. These learning experiences must not be misread as divine indifference. Instead, such tutorials are a part of the divine unfolding.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Giving, Despair, Cheerful

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• I don't want to analyze myself or anything, but I think, in fact I know this to be true, that I enter the world through what I write. I grew up believing, and continue to believe, that I am a screw-up, that growing up with my family and friends, I had nothing to offer in any conversation. But when I started writing, suddenly there was something that I brought to the party that was at a high-enough level.

  Aaron Sorkin

  Growing Up, Party, Believe

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• Be grateful, be smart, be clean, be true, be humble, be prayerful.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Smart, Grateful, Humble

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• There are few ways in which good people do more harm to those who take them seriously than to defend the gospel with arguments that won't hold water. Many of the difficulties encountered by young people going to college would be avoided if parents and teachers were more careful to distinguish between what they know to be true and what they think may be true. Impetuous youth, upon finding the authority it trusts crumbling, even on unimportant details, is apt to lump everything together and throw the baby out with the bath.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Baby, Teacher, College

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• The notion that everyone would like Christianity to be true, and therefore all atheists are brave men who have accepted the defeat of all their deepest desires, is simply impudent nonsense.

  C. S. Lewis

  Atheist, Men, Brave

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.61, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It is not a matter of what is true that counts, but a matter of what is perceived to be true.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Peace, Truth, Matter

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• Woe to him whom this world charms from Gospel duty. Woe to him who seeks to pour oil upon the waters when God has brewed them into a gale. Woe to him who seeks to please rather than to appal. Woe to him whose good name is more to him than goodness. Woe to him who, in this world, courts not dishonor! Woe to him who would not be true, even though to be false were salvation. Yea, woe to him who, as the great Pilot Paul has it, while preaching to others is himself a castaway.

  Herman Melville

  Names, Oil, Water

  Herman Melville (2008). “Moby-Dick”, p.53, Velvet Element Books

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• You don't want to loose your old friend - the misery - You have invested too much into false - Hence the fear to be exposed -to be true - to be naked as you are

  Rajneesh

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Old Friends

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• When something ought to be true then it proves to be a very powerful truth.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Powerful, Prove, Ought

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• It is all very wonderful and mysterious, as all life is apt to be if you go a little below the crust, and are not content just to read newspapers and go by the Tube Railway, and buy your clothes ready-made, and think nothing can be true unless it is uninteresting.

  E. Nesbit

  Thinking, Clothes, Littles

  E. Nesbit (2013). “The House of Arden”, p.228, Simon and Schuster

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• Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.

  Francis Bacon

  True Friend, Believe, Learning

  Novum Organum (1620).

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• ...memory is fragile and the space of a single life is brief, passing so quickly that we never get a chance to see the relationship between events; we cannot gauge the consequences of our acts, and we believe in the fiction of past, present, and future, but it may also be true that everything happens simultaneously.

  Isabel Allende

  Memories, Believe, Past

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• Be true! Be true! Be true! Show freely to the world, if not your worst, yet some trait whereby the worst may be inferred!

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  World, May, Worst

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (1992). “The Scarlet Letter”, p.10, Wordsworth Editions

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• . . .and the thing that you know to be true is the lie that will kill you.

  Glen Cook

  Lying, Knows

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• I am not an atheist but an earthiest. Be true to the earth.

  Edward Abbey

  Atheist, Earth

  Edward Abbey (1968). “Desert Solitaire”, p.184, Simon and Schuster

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• if any opinion is compelled to silence, that opinion may, for aught we can certainly know, be true. To deny this is to assume our own infallibility.

  John Stuart Mill

  Silence, May, Opinion

  John Stuart Mill, Jeremy Bentham, John Troyer (2003). “The Classical Utilitarians: Bentham and Mill”, p.191, Hackett Publishing

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• I don't like to discuss my marriage, but I will tell you something which may sound corny but which happens to be true. I have steak at home. Why should I go out for hamburger?

  Paul Newman

  Home, Sound, Hamburgers

  "Paul and Joanne: A Biography of Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward". Book by Joe Morella and Edward Z. Epstein, 1988.

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• As you sow in your subconscious mind, so shall you reap in your body and environment. Whatever your conscious mind assumes and believes to be true, your subconscious mind will accept and bring to pass. Whatever you habitually think sinks into the subconscious. The subconscious is the seat of the emotions and is a creative mind. Once subconscious accepts an idea, it begins to execute it. Whatever you feel is true, your subconscious will accept and bring forth into experience.

  Jane Roberts

  Believe, Thinking, Ideas

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