Being True Quotes - Page 6

• If we do take statements to be the primary bearers of truth, there seems to be a very simple answer to the question, what is it for them to be true: for a statement to be true is for things to be as they are stated to be.

  J. L. Mackie

  Truth, Simple, Answers

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• When an image is said to be singular, it is meant that it is absolutely determinate in all respects. Every possible character, or the negative thereof, must be true of such an image.

  Charles Sanders Peirce

  Character, Negative, Said

  Charles Sanders Peirce, Nathan Houser, Christian J.W. J. W. Kloesel (1992). “The Essential Peirce, Volume 1: Selected Philosophical Writings? (1867–1893)”, p.47, Indiana University Press

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• We were told in one lecture that it was possible to immunize against diphtheria and tetanus by the use of chemically treated toxins, or toxoids. And the following lecture, we were told that
  for immunization against a virus disease, you have to experience the infection, and that you could not induce immunity with the so-called "killed" or inactivated, chemically treated virus preparation. Well, somehow, that struck me. What struck me was that both statements couldn't be true. And I asked why this was so, and the answer that was given was in a sense, 'Because.'
  There was no satisfactory answer.

  Jonas Salk

  Preparation, Answers, Tetanus

  "Congressional Gold Medal". The Academy of Achievement interview, www.achievement.org. May 16, 1991.

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• Actions speak louder than words. The reality is that at least 10 journalists have been killed by the US military, and according to reports I believe to be true journalists have been arrested and tortured by US forces.

  Eason Jordan

  Military, Believe, Reality

  "US military 'still failing to protect journalists in Iraq'" by Claire Cozens, www.theguardian.com. November 19, 2004.

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• To attract people, to win over people to that which I have realized as being true, that is called propaganda.

  Joseph Goebbels

  Winning, People, Propaganda

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• Liberation that raises a cry against others is no true liberation. Liberation that means revolutions of hate and violence and takes away lives of others or abases the dignity of others
  cannot be true liberty.

  Oscar Romero

  Hate, Mean, Liberty

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• I think now that maybe true sweetness can only happen in limbo.

  Peter Heller

  Thinking, Sweetness, Limbo

  Peter Heller (2012). “The Dog Stars”, p.216, Vintage

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• You can spend your life trying to be popular, and that's a tricky business. You can just try to be true to yourself.

  Kevin Costner

  Trying, Be True To Yourself, Tricky

  "Actor-filmmaker Kevin Costner, Part 1". "The Tavis Smiley show" with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. May 24, 2012.

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• [Having perosonal trainer for the movie 'The back-up plan'] I felt like I had just given birth. He was like, "You can't eat anything but this. You've got to do what I say." So along with doing the film, I did this kind of disciplined workout regimen, because every cheese farmer is ripped and buff, and I wanted to be true to character, because I'm Method. But it took a lot of hard work to get there. You can rest assured in the fact that it's all gone now.

  Jennifer Lopez

  Workout, Hard Work, Character

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• The whole point to American journalism is what ought to be true is true. Since I ought to be arrogant, impressed with my social position, overwhelmed by my beauty, therefore I am.

  Gore Vidal

  Arrogant, Overwhelmed, Journalism

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I became a vegetarian 55 years ago, and I think it's one of the more important behavioral changes I ever took. The more I see of the beef industry and so on, I believe that to be true.

  John Elkington

  Believe, Thinking, Years

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• You have to let your music be true and then people who want to adopt it as that, they take it on and they love it, and it changes their world.

  Billy Sherwood

  People, World, Want

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• Online gambling is very seductive and very illusory. It can seem like a really good idea. It can seem like what people told you to work hard and get ahead, but when someone shows you something and it's too good to be true, it probably is.

  Ben Affleck

  Hard Work, Gambling, Ideas

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• A lot of people say there is no happiness in this life, and certainly there's no permanent happiness. But self-sufficiency creates happiness. Happiness is a state of bliss. Just because you're satisfied one moment - saying yes, it's a good meal, makes me happy - well, that's not going to necessarily be true the next hour. Life has its ups and downs, and time has to be your partner. Time is your soul mate. Children are happy. But they haven't really experienced ups and downs yet. I'm not exactly sure what happiness even means. I don't know if I personally could define it.

  Bob Dylan

  Children, Mean, Self

  "Bob Dylan: 'Passion is a young man's game, older people gotta be wise'". Interview with Robert Love, www.independent.co.uk. February 7, 2015.

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• There was about a two-year period at the end of the '60s, when I realized I was in the wrong place and entertaining the wrong people with the wrong material and that I was not being true to myself. I went through a metamorphosis into something more authentic for me, a more authentic stage voice and writing voice.

  George Carlin

  Writing, Years, Two

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• The joy is in the creation. So I've never had a target audience, it's always been about being true to the work as it emerges.

  Rob Bell

  Target Audience, Joy, Creation

  Source: missionaryrenegade2013.blogspot.com

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• Be true to your heart, and if you're passionate about your dream, work towards it but don't allow your idea of how you think it should manifest prevent what's actually unfolding from happening.

  Keke Palmer

  Dream, Heart, Thinking

  Source: lasentinel.net

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• The whole point to American journalism is what ought to be true is true.

  Gore Vidal

  Journalism, Ought, Whole

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think it's important to just be a good, honest person and be true to who you are.

  Mila Kunis

  Thinking, Important, Honest

  "We Drank Bourbon With Mila Kunis. Be Jealous". Interview with Robert Haynes-Peterson, www.askmen.com.

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• Acting has helped me understand people, not only because you are acting as a character, but also because you are watching other actors work. That really helps you identify in life when someone is acting, not being true.

  Steve Martin

  Character, People, Acting

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• And know if I'll only be true to the glorious quest That my heart lies peaceful and calm When I'm laid to my rest.

  Joe Darion

  Peace, Lying, Heart

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• I hold too that whatever may be true of other countries, a bloody revolution will not succeed in India.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Country, India, May

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works”

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• Human life is a series of compromises, and it is not always easy to achieve in practice what one has found to be true in theory.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Life, Practice, Compromise

  Mahatma Gandhi, Anand T. Hingorani, Ganga Anand Hingorani (1985). “The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts”

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• Religion to be true must satisfy what may be termed humanitarian economics, that is, where the income and the expenditure balance each other.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Religion, Balance, Income

  Mahatma Gandhi (1954). “How to Serve the Cow”

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• Whatever may be true of the other modes of warfare, insatyagraha it has been held that the causes for failure are to be sought within.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Warfare, May, Causes

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