Voltaire
Philosopher, Writer
"Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."
Being True quotes
Being True
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Dave Chappelle
Comedian, Actor, Writer
"The hardest thing to do is to be true to yourself, especially when everybody is watching."
Ralph Waldo Trine
Philosopher
"Never affirm or repeat about your health what you do not wish to be true."
James Luther Adams
Theologian, Author
"An unexamined faith is not worth having, for it can be true only by accident."
Swami Vivekananda
Spiritual Leader, Philosopher
"The greatest religion is to be true to your own nature. Have faith in yourselves."
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"The key to success is to be true to who you really are."
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"I cannot say this too strongly: Do not compare yourselves to others. Be true to who you are, and continue to learn with all your might."
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"You have to be true to who you are."
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"Religions die when they are proved to be true. Science is the record of dead religions."
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"A truth ceases to be true when more than one person believes in it."
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"It seemed too good to be true. That's grace."
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"Authenticity is about being true to who you are, even when everyone around you wants you to be someone else"
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"Nothing is too good to be true."
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"We must be true to each other."
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"A thing can be true and still be desperate folly."
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"I am not an atheist but an earthiest. Be true to the earth."
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"At some point in your life, this statement will be true: tomorrow you will lose everything forever."
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"To be true is manly, chivalrous, Christian; to be false is mean, cowardly, devilish."
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"God made me the way that I am and it’s my business to be true to that."
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"All possible knowledge, then, depends on the validity of reasoning...Unless human reasoning is valid no science can be true."
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"Have the guts to be true to yourself. Nothing more."
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"What is really beautiful must always be true."
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"A myth doesn't have to be real to be true."
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"Nothing can be more contemptible than to suppose Public Records to be true."
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"If theological ideas prove to have a value for concrete life, they will be true, for pragmatism, in the sense of being good for so much. How much more they are true, will depend entirely on their relations to the other truths that also have to be acknowledged."
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