Being True Quotes - Page 29

• What makes fantastic declarations believable is, in part, the vehemence with which they're proffered. Again, in the world of spirituality as well as of pop psychology, intensity of personal belief is evidence of truth. It is considered very bad form - even abuse - to challenge the veracity of any personal testimony that might be offered in a twelve-step group or on a talk show, unless the testimony itself is equivocal... Whatever sells, whatever many people believe strongly, must be true.

  Wendy Kaminer

  Believe, People, Psychology

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• I believe my theory of relativity to be true. But it will only be proved for certain in 1981, when I am dead.

  Albert Einstein

  Believe, Science, Theory

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• I maintain there is much more wonder in science than in pseudoscience. And in addition, to whatever measure this term has any meaning, science has the additional virtue, and it is not an inconsiderable one, of being true.

  Carl Sagan

  Atheist, Science, Religion

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• Voyager upon life's sea, To yourself be true, And whate'er your lot may be, Paddle your own canoe.

  Sarah T. Bolton

  Single, Sea, May

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• Do not worry over the charge of treason to your masters, but be concerned about the treason that involves yourselves. Be true to yourself and you cannot be a traitor to any good cause on earth.

  Eugene V. Debs

  Truth, Worry, Earth

  Eugene V. Debs' anti-war speech in Canton, Ohio (June 16, 1918), as quoted in The Call Magazine, www.marxists.org. 1918.

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• Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.

  Richard Bach

  Inspirational, Truth, Statistics

  "Messiah's Handbook: Reminders for the Advanced Soul". Book by Richard Bach, August 16, 2004.

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• With caution judge of probability. Things deemed unlikely, e'en impossible, experience oft hath proved to be true.

  William Shakespeare

  Wisdom, Judging, Impossible

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• I shall do less whenever I shall believe what I am doing hurts the cause and I shall do more whenever I shall believe doing more will help the cause. I shall try to correct errors when shown to be errors and I shall adopt new views so fast as they shall appear to be true views.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Change, Success, Hurt

  Abraham Lincoln (1989). “Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 2: 1859-1865: Library of America #46”, p.358, Library of America

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• I shall adopt new views as fast as they shall appear to be true views.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Change, Views

  Abraham Lincoln “Speeches & Letters of Abraham Lincoln, 1832-1865 by Abraham Lincoln”, Lulu.com

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• If you're an actor, always be true to your character. If you are not an actor, have character and always be true to yourself.

  Robert De Niro

  Motivational, Character, Acting

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• Rid your body of its impurities, let your speech be true and sweet, feel friendship for the world, and with humility seek wealth and knowledge.

  Tirumalai Krishnamacharya

  Sweet, Yoga, Humility

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• Don't move. Just die over and over. Don't anticipate. Nothing can save you now because you have only this moment. Not even enlightenment will help you now because there are no other moments. With no future, be true to yourself and express yourself fully. Don't move.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Spiritual, Moving, Enlightenment

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• There's no tradition of scientists knocking down the Sunday school door, telling the preacher, That might not necessarily be true. That's never happened. There're no scientists picketing outside of churches.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Religious, School, Science

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• Let your speech be true and sweet.

  Tirumalai Krishnamacharya

  Sweet, Yoga, Speech

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• Musicians must make music, artists must paint, poets must write if they are to be ultimately at peace with themselves. What human beings can be, they must be. They must be true to their own nature. This need we may call self-actualization.

  Abraham Maslow

  Music, Peace, Motivation

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• You ought to be true for the sake of the folks who think you are true. You never should stoop to a deed that your folks think you would not do. If you are false to yourself, be the blemish but small, you have injured your folks; you have been false to them all.

  Edgar Guest

  Being Yourself, Truth, Thinking

  Edgar Guest (1916). “A Heap o' Living'”

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• Mothers, look after your daughters, keep them near you, keep their confidence - that they may be true and faithful.

  Elmina Shepard Taylor

  Faith, Daughter, Mother

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• The writer, like everyone else, is equipped in infancy with a thick padding of things he believes to be true, but which aren't.

  Jon Franklin

  Believe, Writing, Infancy

  Jon Franklin (1987). “Writing for story: craft secrets of dramatic nonfiction by a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner”, Signet

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• It is important to go into work you would like to do. Then it doesn't seem like work. You sometimes feel it's almost too good to be true that someone will pay you for enjoying yourself. I've been very fortunate that my work led to useful drugs for a variety of serious illnesses. The thrill of seeing people get well who might otherwise have died of diseases like leukemia, kidney failure, and herpes virus encephalitis cannot be described in words.

  Gertrude B. Elion

  Get Well, Hard Work, Serious Illness

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• Rejoice when other scientists do not believe what you know to be true. It will give you extra time to work on it in peace. When they start claiming that they have discovered it before you, look for a new project.

  Efraim Racker

  Believe, Hard Work, Knowledge

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• Thus I came...to a deep religiosity, which, however, reached an abrupt end at the age of 12. Through the reading of popular scientific books I soon reached a conviction that much in the stories of the Bible could not be true....Suspicion against every kind of authority grew out of this experience...an attitude which has never left me.

  Albert Einstein

  Atheist, Attitude, Book

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.338, Princeton University Press

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• Although God believers don't need evolution to be false, atheists need evolution to be true.

  Ann Coulter

  Atheist, Needs, Evolution

  Ann Coulter (2006). “Godless: The Church of Liberalism”, p.199, Crown Forum

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• Your mind is an instrument, a tool. It is there to be used for a specific task, and when the task is completed, you lay it down. As it is, I would say about 80 to 90 percent of most people's thinking is not only repetitive and useless, but because of its dysfunctional and often negative nature, much of it is also harmful. Observe your mind and you will find this to be true. It causes a serious leakage of vital energy.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Thinking, People

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• Your nervous system cannot tell the difference between an imagined experience and a 'real' experience. In either case, it reacts automatically to information which you give to it from your forebrain. Your nervous system reacts appropriately to what you THINK or IMAGINE to be 'true.

  Maxwell Maltz

  Life, Motivational, Real

  Maxwell Maltz (2016). “Psycho-Cybernetics Deluxe Edition: The Original Text of the Classic Guide to a New Life”, p.31, Penguin

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• In Jesus, God wills to be true God not only in the height but also in the depth - in the depth of human creatureliness, sinfulness and mortality.

  Karl Barth

  Jesus, Height, Depth

  Karl Barth (2010). “Church Dogmatics Study Edition 21: The Doctrine of Reconciliation IV.1 § 57-59”, p.130, A&C Black

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