Being True Quotes - Page 8

• For what a man would like to be true, that he more readily believes.

  Francis Bacon

  Believe, Men, Belief

  'Novum Organum' (1620) bk. 1, Aphorism 49 (translated by J. Spedding).

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• The world shrinking down about a raw core of parsible entities. The names of things slowly following those things into oblivion. Colors. The names of birds. Things to eat. Finally the name of things one believed to be true. More fragile than he would have thought. How much was gone already? The sacred idiom shorn of its referents and so of its reality. Drawing down like something trying to preserve heat. In time to wink out forever.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Reality, Drawing, Color

  Cormac McCarthy (2007). “The Road”, p.75, Vintage

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• IF WE AND OUR POSTERITY SHALL BE TRUE TO THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION, IF WE AND THEY SHALL LIVE ALWAYS IN THE FEAR OF GOD AND SHALL RESPECT HIS COMMANDMENTS, IF WE AND THEY SHALL MAINTAIN JUST MORAL SENTIMENTS AND SUCH CONSCIENTIOUS CONVICTIONS OF DUTY AS SHALL CONTROL THE HEART AND LIFE, WE MAY HAVE THE HIGHEST HOPES OF THE FUTURE FORTUNES OF OUR COUNTRY. OUR COUNTRY WILL GO ON PROSPERING.

  Daniel Webster

  Christian, Country, Fear

  Daniel Webster (1990). “Daniel Webster: The Completest Man”, University Press of New England

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• To be true to its constitutional role, the Supreme Court should refuse to be drawn into making public policy, and it should strike down legislation only when a clear constitutional violation exists. When judicial activists resort to various inventions and theories to impose their personal views on privacy and liberty, they jeopardize the legitimacy of the judiciary as an institution and undermine the role of the other branches of government.

  Mark Levin

  Government, Views, Liberty

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• When things are not working for us, instead of fighting and struggling, we need to say, "What's happening here? How am I not being true to who I am? What is pulling me away from my purpose?"

  June Singer

  Struggle, Healing, Fighting

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• What we remember, and how we order and interpret what we believe to be true, are what shapes who we are.

  Stephen Elliott

  Believe, Order, Shapes

  Stephen Elliott (2010). “The Adderall Diaries: A Memoir of Moods, Masochism, and Murder (Large Print 16pt)”, p.245, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The big secret about Art is that no one wants it to be true.

  Adam Phillips

  Art, Secret, Want

  Adam Phillips (2010). “On Balance”, p.210, Penguin UK

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• Let your pain be my sorrow. Let your tears be my tears too. Let your courage be my model. That the north you find will be true.

  Sting

  Courage, Pain, Bravery

  Sting (2009). “Lyrics”, p.202, Dial Press

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• I am always true to myself, that is the problem. Who else could I be true to?

  Adam Phillips

  Assessment, Problem, True To Myself

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• Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said.

  Voltaire

  Should, Said

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• Dilbert: Evolution must be true because it is a logical conclusion of the scientific method.
  Dogbert: But science is based on the irrational belief that because we cannot perceive reality all at once, things called time and cause and effect exist.
  Dilbert: That's what I was taught and that's what I believe.
  Dogbert: Sounds cultish.

  Scott Adams

  Believe, Science, Reality

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• The use of force is always an answer to problems. Whether or not it's a satisfactory answer depends on a number of things, not least the personality of the person making the determination. Force isn't an attractive answer, though. I would not be true to myself or to the people I served with in 1970 if I did not make that realization clear.

  David Drake

  Determination, Numbers, People

  David Drake (2012). “Voyage Across the Stars”, p.624, Baen Publishing Enterprises

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• Be true to your own highest convictions.

  William Ellery Channing

  Conviction, Highest

  William Ellery CHANNING (1839). “Self-Culture. An address introductory to the Franklin lectures, delivered at Boston. 1838”, p.18

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• It is sufficient to say, what everybody knows to be true, that the Irish population is Catholic, and that the Protestants, whether of the Episcopalian or Presbyterian Church, or of both united, are a small minority of the Irish people.

  John Bright

  People, Catholic, Church

  John Bright (1869). “Speeches on Questions of Public Policy: By John Bright. Edited by James E. Thorold Rogers. In 2 Volumes”, p.534

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• The impulse of the journalist is to be novel, yet to relate his curiosities to the urgencies of the moment; the philosopher seeks what he conceives to be true, regardless of the moment.

  Daniel Bell

  Curiosity, Philosopher, Moments

  Daniel Bell (1965). “The End of Ideology: On the Exhaustion of Political Ideas”

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• Truth Will Set U Free is about honesty. My philosophic belief that ultimately being true to yourself is liberating, with every individual's inalienable right to be who they are without fear or recrimination.

  Corey Hart

  Honesty, Be True To Yourself, Belief

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• He that denies any of the doctrines that Christ has delivered, to be true, denies him to be sent from God, and consequently to be the Messiah; and so ceases to be a Christian.

  John Locke

  Christian, Doctrine, Deny

  John Locke (1824). “The Works of John Locke: The reasonableness of Christianity. A vindication of the Reasonableness of Christianity, from Mr. Edward's reflections. A second vindication”, p.232

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• What is not in nature can never be true.

  Voltaire

  Nature, Truth

  Voltaire (2007). “The Complete Romances of Voltaire”, p.384, Wildside Press LLC

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• If you're going to say you're Catholic, you inform your conscience so that you're activities will conform to what God is telling us through the Church. If God is telling you something outside of that, well, the Church will look at that and say: we think it is true or we don't think it is true. The Church might say: that might be true for you but it has no public normative value.

  Francis George

  Thinking, Catholic, Church

  Source: www.realclearreligion.org

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• When you try to be true to the script, changes occur. A script is there to show us a certain direction. But when you actually have the actors in and you start shooting the movie, you have the actor say a line and it doesn't sound right so you change it and make it different. It's the script that gives birth to these changes and the more you try to stay true to the script, the more that happens.

  Takashi Miike

  Giving, Trying, Sound

  Source: collider.com

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• There are messages about civilisations and we are trying to be true to history as much as possible. We wanted all this to gel with some good theory about why these civilisations went down, why they weakened and crumbled. Because they did, they vanished.

  Mel Gibson

  Trying, Messages, Theory

  "Apocalypto - Mel Gibson interview". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• The music becomes more pure and soulful when it's true, and it has to be true these days with the way the internet works, and the way the game works, everyone wants authentic raps.

  J. Cole

  Rap, Games, Want

  "J. Cole Talks Roc Nation, Meeting Jay-Z & 'The Warm Up' Mixtape". Interview with Damien Scott, www.complex.com. May 2, 2009.

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• I just try to be true to myself and write about things I'm passionate about. I think what most people don't like about movies is they can tell that most movies are a product, and they don't mean that much to the people who make them.

  Judd Apatow

  Writing, Mean, Thinking

  Interview with Gregg LaGambina, www.avclub.com. July 30, 2009.

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• I was never interested in the two-party system per se. I was interested in how authority was abused by government, and how lies were told, and rewritten, to seem to be true. I came up out of a tradition of radical journalism.

  Jules Feiffer

  Lying, Party, Government

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. July 28, 2008.

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• The job of the novel is to be true to the confusion, but not so confusing that you turn the reader off.

  Nicholson Baker

  Jobs, Confusion, Confusing

  "Nicholson Baker Navigates The Buffet". Interview with Jared Levy, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 16, 2013.

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