Being True Quotes - Page 36

• Believe nothing because it is written in books. Believe nothing because wise men say it is so. Believe nothing because it is religious doctrine. Believe it only because you yourself know it to be true.

  Gautama Buddha

  Wise, Religious, Believe

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• There are a lot of things in this world that are more important than being popular. Being true to yourself is one of them.

  Michael Landon

  Important, World, Be True To Yourself

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• The gulf between the information we proclaim & the information we know to be true is vast. In other words: we say one thing & do another.

  Steven Levitt

  Information, Knows, One Thing

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• Consequently, if my theory be true, it is indisputable that before the lowest Silurian stratum was deposited, long periods elapsed, as long as, or probably far longer than, the whole interval from the Silurian age to the present day; and that during these vast, yet quite unknown, periods of time, the world swarmed with living creatures. To the question why we do not find records of these vast primordial periods, I can give no satisfactory answer.

  Charles Darwin

  Giving, Long, Age

  Charles Darwin (1866). “On the origin of species ... A facsimile of the first edition, with an introduction by Ernst Mayr. With a portrait and a bibliography”, p.370

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• Auden said poetry makes nothing happen. But I wonder if the opposite could be true. It could make something happen.

  Carol Ann Duffy

  Opposites, Wonder, Said

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• If it be true that our people represent a high percentage of mental vigor, the distinction is probably due, in some measure, to the extremely important part which Talmud studies have played in the spiritual life of the race.

  Abraham Cahan

  Spiritual, Race, People

  Abraham Cahan (2013). “The Rise of David Levinsky”, p.30, Courier Corporation

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• If we remember that God loves us, and that we can love others as He loves us, then America can become a sign of peace for the world. From here, a sign of care for the weakest of the weak - the unborn child - must go out to the world. If you become a burning light of justice and peace in the world, then really you will be true to what the founders of this country stood for. God bless you!

  Mother Teresa

  Country, Children, Light

  Mother Teresa (2010). “Where There Is Love, There Is God: A Path to Closer Union with God and Greater Love for Others”, p.99, Image

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• Your self is sacred; be true to it.

  Paul Brunton

  Self, Sacred

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• If our bodies are sick, we seek to heal them.  We do not give up.  The same thing should be true of our marriages.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Giving Up, Sick, Body

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• One thing is very clear: the safest place and the best protection against the moral and spiritual diseases is a stable home and family. This has always been true; it will be true forever. We must keep that foremost in our minds. The scriptures speak of 'the shield of faith wherewith,' the Lord said, 'ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked' (D&C 27:17). This shield of faith is best fabricated in a cottage industry. While the shield can be polished in classes in the Church and in activities, it is meant to be handcrafted in the home and fitted to each individual.

  Boyd K. Packer

  Spiritual, Home, Class

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• Let us not give up. Let us be true to our covenants. Let us never lose sight of our Advocate and Redeemer as we walk toward Him, one imperfect step after another.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Giving Up, Sight, Covenant

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• An unexamined faith is not worth having, for it can be true only by accident.

  James Luther Adams

  Accidents

  James Luther Adams (1986). “The Prophethood of All Believers”, Beacon Press (MA)

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• There are things that a woman sings, and only a woman knows the full meaning. You may sing for men as well as for women, but only a woman knows your full meaning. I am not a feminista. I only think a woman should be true to who she believes herself to be. Or who she wants herself to be. Or who she imagines herself to be. I don't know what I mean, or whether I'm true myself to any of that. I don't think there are many of us who are true to our possibilities.

  Gayl Jones

  Believe, Mean, Men

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• It's been my habit of mind, over these years, to understand that every situation in which human beings are involved can be turned on its head. Everything someone assures me to be true might not be. Every pillar of belief the world rests on may or may not be about to explode. Most things don't stay the way they are very long. Knowing this, however, has not made me cynical. Cynical means believing that good isn't possible; and I know for a fact that good is. I simply take nothing for granted and try to be ready for the change that's soon to come.

  Richard Ford

  Believe, Mean, Knowing

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• In politics, the truth is strictly optional and that also seems to be true in parts of the media.

  Thomas Sowell

  Media, Political, Truth Is

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• When did atheists become so evangelical? I mean, if you don't believe something to be true, wouldn't you just ignore it? That's certainly what I do. Whether it's leprechauns or a congressional debt reduction plan - if I'm convinced it's fiction, I simply put it out of my mind. Not the atheists. They are obsessed with faith and religious practice. Their identities and their works are one big reaction to that which they hate. No longer content to simply dismiss God and those who follow in Him, the New Atheists have created a cult of unbelief.

  Laura Ingraham

  Religious, Atheist, Hate

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• Nothing is to wonderful to be true.

  Michael Faraday

  Wonderful

  "Faraday". Book by James Hamilton, www.theguardian.com. 2002.

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• For there to be true maturity, people must be given room to grow, which includes room to fail.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Maturity, People, Coaching

  Charles R. Swindoll (2006). “The Grace Awakening: Believing in Grace Is One Thing. Living it Is Another.”, p.55, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• So here's something I know to be true, although it's a little corny, and I don't quite know what to do with it.

  George Saunders

  Advice, Littles, Corny

  George Saunders (2014). “Congratulations, by the way: Some Thoughts on Kindness”, p.17, Random House

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• See If You Can Give Yourself Gifts That May Be True Blessings, Such As Self-Acceptance

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Acceptance, Blessing, Self

  Jon Kabat-Zinn (2005). “Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life”, Hyperion

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• Finally we are being told the truth: life isn’t always easy and pleasant. We already know this to be true, but somehow we tend to go through life thinking that there is something wrong with us when we experience sadness, grief, and physical and emotional pain. The first truth points out that this is just the way it is. There is nothing wrong with you: you have just been born into a realm where pain is a given.

  Noah Levine

  Pain, Grief, Sadness

  Noah Levine (2009). “Against the Stream: A Buddhist Manual for Spiritual Revolutionaries”, p.19, Harper Collins

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• A man may be an heretic in the truth, and if he believe things only because his pastor says so, or the assembly so determines, without knowing other reason, though his belief be true, yet the very truth he holds becomes his heresy.

  Frederic Farrar

  Truth, Believe, Men

  Frederic W. Farrar (2003). “History of Interpretation: Bampton Lectures, 1885”, p.16, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• To be true to oneself is the hardest test of life.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Life, Tests, Hardest

  "Seventy Seven Thousand Service-Trees series 1-50" by Sri Chinmoy, (#26570, Part 27), 1998.

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• You must be true to your own way until at last you actually come to the point where you see it is necessary to forget all about yourself.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Way, Lasts, Forget

  Shunryu Suzuki (2010). “Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind”, p.27, Shambhala Publications

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• If we can stay with the tension of
  opposites long enough —sustain it,
  be true to it—we can sometimes
  become vessels within which the
  divine opposites come together and
  give birth to a new reality.

  Marie-Louise von Franz

  Reality, Opposites, Long

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