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• Something might be true while being harmful and dangerous in the highest degree. Indeed, it might be a basic characteristic of existence that those who know it completely would perish, in which case the strength of a spirit should be measured according to how much of the 'truth' one could still barely endure- or to put it more clearly, to what degree one would require it to be thinned down, shrouded, sweetened, blunted, falsified.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Courage, Truth, Integrity

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.239, Modern Library

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• Small people delight in what they call consistency-that is, it gives them immense pleasure to say that they believe now exactly as they did ten years ago. This simply amounts to a certificate that they have not grown-that they have not developed-and that they know just as little now as they ever did. The highest possible conception of consistency is to be true to the knowledge of today, without the slightest reference to what your opinion was years ago.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Integrity, Believe, Years

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1900). “Tributes and miscellany”

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• Two great virtues . . . give a man power with the heavens - integrity and purity of character. Let a man possess these, let his heart be true and unflinching, let his life be pure, and, if we add to these humility, he is protected against a multitude of weaknesses and can resist a host of temptations. We all have our weaknesses; God has permitted them that we might be taught humility in ourselves and charity towards others.

  Wilford Woodruff

  Integrity, Heart, Character

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• Religion becomes a matter of belief, and belief acts as a limitation on the mind; and the mind then is never free. But it is only in freedom that you can find out what is true, what is God, not through any belief; because your belief projects what you think God ought to be, what you think ought to be true. If you believe God is love, God is good, God is this or that, your very belief prevents you from understanding what is God, what is true.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Powerful, Believe, Thinking

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1967). “Life Ahead”

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• If all be true that I do think, There are five reasons we should drink: Good wine - a friend - or being dry - Or lest we should be by and by - Or any other reason why.

  Henry Aldrich

  Drinking, Food, Wine

  'Reasons for Drinking'

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• The fact of evolution is the backbone of biology, and biology is thus in the peculiar position of being a science founded on an unproved theory -is it then a science or a faith? Belief in the theory of evolution is thus exactly parallel to belief in special creation - both are concepts which believers know to be true but neither, up to the present, has been capable of proof.

  L. Harrison Matthews

  Theory Of Evolution, Special, Peculiar

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• At any rate, if evolution turns out to be true, then the Christian should embrace it as one dedicated to following the truth wherever it leads. This might mean reworking his interpretation of Genesis on the subject-much like Christians have had to rework their interpretation of biblical passages referring to the sun rising and setting, the earth not moving, or the earth resting on foundations.

  Paul Copan

  Christian, Moving, Mean

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• The more one studies paleontology, the more certain one becomes that evolution is based upon faith alone; exactly the same sort of faith which is necessary to have when one encounters the great mysteries of religion....The only alternative is the doctrine of special creation, which may be true, but irrational.

  Louis T. Moore

  Special, Alternatives, Paleontology

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• Because there is no man who can be true and just judge of himself, so much will self-love deceive him.

  Dante Alighieri

  True Love, Men, Self

  Dante Alighieri (2017). “The Banquet”, p.11, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• The sceptic will say, 'It may well be true that this system of equations is reasonable from a logical standpoint, but this does not prove that it corresponds to nature.' You are right, dear sceptic. Experience alone can decide on truth.

  Albert Einstein

  Science, Criticism, May

  Albert Einstein (1954). “Ideas and Opinions: Based on Mein Weltbild”

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• Sometimes the things that may or may not be true are the things a man needs to believe in the most. That people are basically good; that honor, courage, and virtue mean everything; that power and money, money and power mean nothing; that good always triumphs over evil; and I want you to remember this, that love... true love never dies. You remember that, boy. You remember that. Doesn't matter if it's true or not. You see, a man should believe in those things, because those are the things worth believing in.

  Tim McCanlies

  Love, Dream, Believe

  "Secondhand Lions". www.imdb.com. 2003.

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• Just be true to yourself and don't do anything that doesn't feel right.

  Matt Preston

  Motivation, Be True To Yourself, Feels Right

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• I realized that very young - that a life where you don't live to your full potential, or you don't experiment, or you're afraid, or you hesitate, or there are things you know you should do but you just don't get around to them, is a life that I'd be miserable living, and the only way to feel that I'm on the right path is just to be true to myself, whatever that may be, and that tends to come with stepping out of something that's maybe safe or traditional.

  Angelina Jolie

  Badass, May, Safe

  "Worldwide Exclusive: Angelina Jolie Opens Up". www.elle.com. May 7, 2014.

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• We are made for larger ends than Earth can encompass. Oh, let us be true to our exalted destiny.

  Catherine Booth

  Destiny, Earth, Ends

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• It has always been, and will always be true; those who do the most good suffer more than most do.

  Wes Fesler

  Sacrifice, Suffering

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• The contemporary artist...is not bound to a fully conceived, previsioned end. His mind is kept alert to in-process discovery and a working rapport is established between the artist and his creation. While it may be true, as Nathan Lyons stated, 'The eye and the camera see more than the mind knows,' is it not also conceivable that the mind knows more than the eye and the camera can see?

  Jerry Uelsmann

  Photography, Eye, Artist

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• Human nature, at its best, had always been based on a deep heroic restlessness, on wanting something-something else, something more, whether it be true love or a glimpse just beyond the horizon. It was the promise of happiness, not the attainment of it, that had driven the entire engine, the folly and glory of who we are.

  Will Ferguson

  Happiness, Promise, Beyond The Horizon

  Will Ferguson (2002). “Happiness”

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• A Ming vase can be well-designed and well-made and is beautiful for that reason alone. I don't think this can be true for photography. Unless there is something a little incomplete and a little strange, it will simply look like a copy of something pretty. We won't take an interest in it.

  John Loengard

  Beautiful, Photography, Thinking

  John Loengard (1987). “Pictures under discussion”, Amphoto Books

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• No member of a society has a right to teach any doctrine contrary to what the society holds to be true.

  Samuel Johnson

  Doctrine, Censorship, Members

  "The Table Talk of Dr. Johnson: Comprising Opinions and Anecdotes of Life and Literature, Men, Manners, and Morals".

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• The Church is that one wherein the true word of God is preached, which Christ left to His Apostles, which the same Church hath always observed, the doctors preached, and Martyrs and confessors witnessed. This is the Church I believe to be true.

  Margaret Clitherow

  Believe, Doctors, Church

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• There have been people.. ever since I've had any kind of position in the world.. who have accused me of being ruler of the world. I have to say that I think for the large part, I would have to decide to describe them as crack pots. It makes no sense whatsoever, and isn't true, and won't be true, and to raise it as a serious issue seems to me to be irresponsible.

  David Rockefeller

  Crazy, Power, Thinking

  "We the People: A Christian Nation". Book by Richard McKenzie Neal, 2010.

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• There is no sense in making statements that will not continue to be true after they are made.

  Frank Knight

  Philosophy, Political, Economics

  Frank Hyneman Knight (1997). “The Ethics of Competition”, p.178, Transaction Publishers

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• If the [Vestiges] be true, the labours of sober induction are in vain; religion is a lie; human law is a mass of folly, and a base injustice; morality is moonshine; our labours for the black people of Africa were works of madmen; and man and woman are only better beasts!

  Adam Sedgwick

  Lying, Science, Men

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• But to have a friend, and to be true under any and all trials, is the mark of a man!

  Charles Alexander Eastman

  Friendship, True Friend, Men

  Charles Alexander Eastman (2010). “Living in Two Worlds: The American Indian Experience Illustrated”, p.164, World Wisdom, Inc

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• We seek opinions that are likely to support what we want to be true.

  Thomas Gilovich

  Family, True Friend, Support

  Thomas Gilovich (2008). “How We Know What Isn't So”, p.82, Simon and Schuster

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