"Have the guts to be true to yourself. Nothing more."
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"What is really beautiful must always be true."
"A myth doesn't have to be real to be true."
"Nothing can be more contemptible than to suppose Public Records to be true."
"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."
"With begging and scrambling we find very little, but with being true to ourselves we find a great deal more."
"What is not in nature can never be true."
"We must be true inside, true to ourselves, before we can know a truth that is outside us. But we make ourselves true inside by manifesting the truth as we see it."
"This above all: be true, be true, be true."
"Be true to what you said on paper."
"I am always going to be true to myself."
"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."
"I take it to be true that pure thought can grasp the real, as the ancients had dreamed."
"My concern is how we learn to be genuine human beings."
"I think now that maybe true sweetness can only happen in limbo."
"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."
"To save the world requires faith and courage: faith in reason, and courage to proclaim what reason shows to be true."
"Some things are too terrible to be true."
"For dear me, why abandon a belief Merely because it ceases to be true"