Quotes on Being True

If you can conceive something in your mind and believe it to be true, then you can achieve it.

Freedom can never be true of name and form; it is the clay out of which we (the pots) are made; then it is limited and not free, so that freedom can never be true of the related. One pot can never say "I am free" as a pot; only as it loses all ideas of form does it become free.

All possible knowledge, then, depends on the validity of reasoning...Unless human reasoning is valid no science can be true.

Nothing can be more contemptible than to suppose Public Records to be true.

I take no pleasure in the fact that the scientific predictions I’ve relayed to popular audiences turn out to be true.

Journalists say a thing that they know isn't true, in the hope that if they keep on saying it long enough it will be true.

'Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.

The only obligation I recognize is to say what I believe to be true [ ] and to say it with kindness. I believe that is how a Christian conversation should proceed.

If there is one lesson that I have learned during my life as an analyst, it is the lesson that what my patients tell me is likely to be true - that many times when I believed that I was right and my patients were wrong, it turned out, though often only after a prolonged search, that my rightness was superficial whereas their rightness was profound.

We cannot ultimately specify the grounds (either metaphysical or logical or empirical) upon which we hold that our knowledge is true. Being committed to such grounds, dwelling in them, we are projecting ourselves to what we believe to be true from or through these grounds. We cannot therefore see what they are. We cannot look at them because we are looking with them.

It is more important that a proposition be interesting than that it be true.

We live in a world of transgressions and selfishness, and no pictures that represent us otherwise can be true; though happily for human nature, gleamings of that pure spirit in whose likeness man has been fashioned, are to be seen, relieving its deformities, and mitigating, if not excusing its crimes.

If we can stay with the tension of_x000D_ opposites long enough —sustain it,_x000D_ be true to it—we can sometimes_x000D_ become vessels within which the_x000D_ divine opposites come together and_x000D_ give birth to a new reality.

See If You Can Give Yourself Gifts That May Be True Blessings, Such As Self-Acceptance

There are things that a woman sings, and only a woman knows the full meaning. You may sing for men as well as for women, but only a woman knows your full meaning. I am not a feminista. I only think a woman should be true to who she believes herself to be. Or who she wants herself to be. Or who she imagines herself to be. I don't know what I mean, or whether I'm true myself to any of that. I don't think there are many of us who are true to our possibilities.

Faith is what someone knows to be true, whether they believe it or not.

If our bodies are sick, we seek to heal them. We do not give up. The same thing should be true of our marriages.

There are a lot of things in this world that are more important than being popular. Being true to yourself is one of them.

From this point of view, to avoid your strengths and to focus on your weaknesses isn't a sign of diligent humility. It is almost irresponsible. By contrast the most responsible, the most challenging, and, in the sense of being true to yourself, the most honorable thing to do is face up to the strength potential inherent in your talents and then find ways to realize it.

Enlightenment is a destructive process. It_x000D_ has nothing to do with becoming better or being happier. Enlightenment is the_x000D_ crumbling away of untruth. It's seeing_x000D_ through the facade of pretence. It's the_x000D_ complete eradication of everything we_x000D_ imagined to be true.

Where is the man who has the strength to be true, and to show himself as he is?