Being True Quotes - Page 5

The theist is persuaded that while nothing that contradicts science is likely to be true, still nothing that stops with science can be the whole truth.

If we can't be true to ourselves, what can we be true to?

Whatever the drama of the story is, you have to be true to it.

But the truth doesn't need to be known, or believed, to be true.

Everybody said so. Far be it from me to assert that what everybody says must be true. Everybody is, often, as likely to be wrong as right.

Some things are too terrible to be true.

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.

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

I'm 72-years-old. There's not a hell of a lot they can do to me. I will continue to report what I see and what I feel to be true.

For dear me, why abandon a belief Merely because it ceases to be true

Unfortunately, however much we may deplore something, it does not stop being true.

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

one reason why I like writing poetry - you can say so many things in it that are true in poetry but wouldn't be true in prose.

A common objection to inherited wealth is that it stifles the urge to work. I have not generally observed this to be true.

I guess I have friends around me but when you're paying them can they ever really be true friends?

My outlook on life is to be true. To take risks. To love the shadows as well as the light. To find your task. To recognise your task. To be active.

Microblogs are yet another form of public display, but I would rather be true to myself.

It was said of me recently that I suffered from an Obsessional Privacy. I can only suppose it must be true.

To save the world requires faith and courage: faith in reason, and courage to proclaim what reason shows to be true.

But it is not the job of truth to make us feel good. It is the job of truth to be true, and it is our job to deal with it.

All I can do is stand still- I feel like if I just stand still, I can stop it from being true, I can pretend that everything is all right.

On to the Next Dream is so outlandish. I call it absurdist fiction, because the story is utter hyperbole. The story builds to such an exaggerated and ridiculous pitch that there's no way it can be true - and yet, because it's based on the current cultural climate, it feels as if it is.

I feel that I helped the working class by just saying there are no barriers, which I consider to be true.

It is true if you believe it to be true.

Maybe you don't have to remember something for it to be true. For it to exist.