Being True Quotes - Page 7

• Knowledge and devotion, to be true, have to stand the test of renunciation of the fruits of action.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Knowledge, Tests, Fruit

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Ronald Duncan (2005). “Gandhi: Selected Writings”, p.37, Courier Corporation

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• A fast to be true must be accompanied by a readiness to receive pure thoughts and determination to resist all Satan's temptations.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Determination, Temptation, Satan

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Fasting in Satyagraha: Its Use and Abuse”

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• Ladies have come up with all these expressions to reassure men. "Oh, honey, it's not the size of the ship, it's the motion of the ocean." That may be true, but it takes a long time to get to England in a rowboat.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Funny, Ocean, Humor

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• It's always been hard to call myself a writer. I think a part of me still thinks it's too good to be true.

  Sarah Dessen

  Thinking, Too Good To Be True, Stills

  "Author Interview: Sarah Dessen on Just Listen". Interview with Cynthia Leitich Smith, cynthialeitichsmith.blogspot.com. December 12, 2006.

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• The most ancient parts of truth . . . also once were plastic. They also were called true for human reasons. They also mediated between still earlier truths and what in those days were novel observations. Purely objective truth, truth in whose establishment the function of giving human satisfaction in marrying previous parts of experience with newer parts played no role whatsoever, is nowhere to be found. The reasons why we call things true is the reason why they are true, for to be true means only to perform this marriage-function.

  William James

  Truth, Mean, Giving

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• An experience, perceptual or conceptual, must conform to reality in order to be true

  William James

  Truth, Reality, Order

  William James (2013). “The Meaning of Truth”, p.52, Courier Corporation

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• Courage is being true to yourself, true to a sense of integrity.

  Cornel West

  Integrity, Be True To Yourself, True To Yourself

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I spent years thinking I had to make a choice between being true to myself and being with a man and not having a family, and trying to live something of a lie and being with a woman and having children.

  Andrew Solomon

  Children, Lying, Men

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• We need to find another way or another shape or an allegory or something that tells us more. Even Vagabond - it was a fiction but it was really a documentary. I mean, it has the texture of documentary. Even if I made up every line, it has the texture of being true.

  Agnes Varda

  Mean, Needs, Vagabonds

  Interview with Sheila Heti, believermag.com. October 1, 2009.

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• When you think about being contrarian, you have to think about - how is it that smart people will disagree with me, disagree with me ...from a position of intelligence, and there is something that I know that they don't know, that will actually in fact play out to be true.

  Reid Hoffman

  Smart, Thinking, Play

  "How To Be A Great Founder". Lecture by Reid Hoffman, genius.com. November 4, 2014.

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• One should believe only what can be chosen to be true or just. Irrational (or unjustified) beliefs should be avoided because they can have disastrous practical consequences.

  Mario Bunge

  Believe, Belief, Should

  Source: deutsche-denker.de

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• It feels like every person is using their whole brain and heart to figure out these nearly impossible dilemmas about how we do our work, with our principles, in the current conditions. And it feels like the thing we know to be true about working collectively - that we have better ideas together than we do individually.

  Dean Spade

  Heart, Ideas, Brain

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• Be true to yourself. Establish your own style and stick to it.

  Lynn Anderson

  Style, Sticks, Be True To Yourself

  Source: www.hometowncountrymusic.com

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• If you believe that every life has equal value, it’s revolting to learn that some lives are seen as worth saving and others are not. We said to ourselves: “This can’t be true. But if it is true, it deserves to be the priority of our giving.”

  Bill Gates

  Business, Believe, Giving

  Bill Gates' Commencement Address at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, news.harvard.edu. June 7, 2007.

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• You have to have a vision and know that it's worth seeing it through. Other than that, just be true to your heart.

  Jason Reeves

  Heart, Vision, Knows

  Source: music-illuminati.com

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• I'm not always the favourite to win, but I still enjoy it. The main thing is that I've planned for it and even if the result isn't great, I know I've done the best I can do. It's being true to, and believing in, yourself.

  Jenny Meadows

  Believe, Winning, Done

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• The only thing you can do through all the scrutiny and just in life in general is be true to yourself.

  Vanessa Hudgens

  Be True To Yourself, Scrutiny, Can Do

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• Everyone suffers; life is pain; and death is the final punctuation at the end of that sentence, so deal with it. I really think you can manage pain and suffering by living in fullness and being true to yourself and all those seemingly vapid platitudes.

  Sufjan Stevens

  Pain, Thinking, Suffering

  "True Myth: A Conversation With Sufjan Stevens". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. February 16, 2015.

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• By the time I was writing the second book, my life had changed rather dramatically, thanks to the intervention of television, and I needed to find a way to discuss that. Otherwise the big, fake book would not be true on some level.

  John Hodgman

  Book, Writing, Fake

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. October 21, 2008.

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• A film should be somewhat personal. I think that whatever you create you have to be true to yourself and create something that feels right to you.

  Tom Ford

  Thinking, Be True To Yourself, Film

  "Director Tom Ford Interview A SINGLE MAN". Interview with Steve "Frosty" Weintraub, collider.com. December 7, 2009.

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• I'm much better at fixing or changing a melody to suit me than I would a lyric. But for me, everything is lyric. It has to be true for me to say it.

  Alison Krauss

  Fixing, Suits, Melody

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I love directing Shakespeare on film. It's fantastic that the actors would do exactly the same thing and be true to their part.

  Julie Taymor

  Actors, Film, Fantastic

  Source: collider.com

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• This above all: be true, be true, be true.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Healing

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• Rely upon your own judgment; be true to your own conscience; follow the light that is within you; all outward lights are so many will-o'-the-wisps. There will be those who tell you that you are foolish; that your judgment is faulty; that your conscience is all awry, and that the light within you is darkness; but heed them not. If what they say is true, the sooner you, as a searcher of wisdom, find it out the better, and you can only make that discovery by bringing your powers to the test. Therefore, pursue your course bravely.

  James Allen

  Light, Discovery, Rely Upon

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• There is a certain way of being human that is my way. I am called upon to live my life in this way, and not in imitation of anyone else's life. But this notion gives a new importance to being true to myself. If I am not, I miss the point of my life; I miss what being human is for me.

  Charles Taylor

  Giving, Missing, Way

  Charles Taylor (1994). “Multiculturalism”, p.30, Princeton University Press

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