Top 100 Quotes About To Be True
#1. In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true.
John Lilly
#2. When I was younger, I looked at getting older as this process of getting less interested in things and becoming colder, and of finding less joy in the mystery of things. And I've found the exact opposite to be true. I find that I'm getting warmer, and that I'm more mystified by human interactions.
Jon Brion
#3. ...At that moment, our fates entwined, Roses. I know not why, but I know it to be true - I am bound to you forevermore. There is nothing to regret.
Juliette Miller
#5. The fact that we are loved and accepted and forgiven in spite of everything we have done is simply too good to be true.
Rob Bell
#6. The fundamental laws of physics do not describe true facts about reality. Rendered as descriptions of facts, they are false; amended to be true, they lose their explanatory force.
Nancy Cartwright
#7. The idea that there is an unconditional love that relieves the pressure, forgives our failures, and replaces our fear with faith seems too good to be true.
Preston Sprinkle
#8. Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself.
Richard Bach
#9. If it looks to good to be true, then it wasn't cooked by my wife.
Ian Sputnik
#10. Even by proving that a certain view is indispensable for living well, one proves merely that the view in question is a salutary myth: one does not prove it to be true.
Leo Strauss
#11. [About Jews] Among other nations, the vital problems are: a good crop, extension of the boundaries, strong armies, colonies; among us, if we wish to be true to ourselves, the vital questions are: conscience, freedom, culture, ethics.
I.L. Peretz
#12. Religion to be true must satisfy what may be termed humanitarian economics, that is, where the income and the expenditure balance each other.
Mahatma Gandhi
#13. 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.
Robert Novak
#14. If you want to assert a truth, first make sure it's not just an opinion that you desperately want to be true.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#15. Yes, indeed, in fact I would tell you that we go out of our way to be true to the original feeling and sort of sonic and musical pallet that we painted with back then.
James Young
#16. Platitude: an idea (a) that is admitted to be true by everyone, and (b) that is not true.
H.L. Mencken
#17. Love needs no protection; it is its own protection. So long as love begets life no child is deserted, or hungry, or famished for the want of affection. I know this to be true.
Emma Goldman
#18. Much of our suffering is caused by our false perceptions and attachment to mental images. We assume things to be true without really knowing whether they are true or not, then create a world of hurt for ourselves and others.
Joseph P. Kauffman
#19. Mysterious as it appears to be, true faith and suffering frequently go hand-in-hand.
Billy Graham
#20. When it comes to judging individuals, I do not like remarks such as 'too good to be true.' They speak as though one is rewarding the nature of evil. Yet, ironically, we still wonder where all the good people have gone.
Criss Jami
#21. But, even in this concrete relationship to the Son of God become man, this is really something new only in so far as it expresses the revelation of what began to be true with the Incarnation and has never since ceased to be true.
Karl Barth
#23. America is so vast that almost everything said about it is likely to be true, and the opposite is probably equally true.
James T. Farrell
#24. I cannot stress often enough that what science is all about is not proving things to be true but proving them to be false.
Lawrence M. Krauss
#25. The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counterintuitive. It may contradict deeply held prejudices. It may not be consonant with what we desperately want to be true. But our preferences do not determine what's true.
Carl Sagan
#26. In my own life I've found it to be true that when I hold on to the wrong things, the wrong things hold on to me.
Emily P. Freeman
#27. If it is true that Jesus ultimately fits no known pattern within the first century,51 it is more or less bound to be true that he fits none within the twentieth.
N. T. Wright
#28. Here is history seen, endured, and created at the same time ... .. If you believe only that which you know to be true, you will trouble yourself with very little belief."
On Thucydides' "History of the Peloponnesian War" in "Fifty Literary Pillars".
William H Gass
#29. There is only one real failure in life that is possible, and that is, not to be true to the best one knows.
Frederic William Farrar
#30. I have spent most of my life unlearning things that were proved not to be true
R. Buckminster Fuller
#31. One thing I've found in life - and you may have noticed it, too - is that beer often can make things seem better. I'm not sure why this is, but it's a phenomenon I've observed enough times that I can confidently declare it to be true.
Sean Pronger
#32. There are certain kinds of currency you acquire in life. Most of it is ephemeral. But friendship and faith in the unseen world and the commitment to be true unto thine own self are the human glue that you never give up, not for any reason.
James Lee Burke
#33. It may sound too good to be true, but once you've seen the happiest people in your life who have nothing, you really start rethinking what the world, and society, tells us that we need to be happy.
Blake Mycoskie
#34. The Big Bang, the formation of sars and planets, the origin and evolution of life on this planet, the advent of human consciousness and the resultant evolution of cultures - this is the story, the one story, that has the potential to unite us, because it happens to be true.
Ursula Goodenough
#35. After all the shit they'd gone through - the pain, the loss, the heartache, the straight up evil brutality that made them question everything they'd thought to be true and had nearly driven them apart for good - he knew he'd do anything for her. Steal anything, kill anyone, be anyone.
Madeline Sheehan
#36. The principle can be established that for a man who does not cheat what he believes to be true must determine his actions.
Albert Camus
#37. I want you to be true to who God made you to be and not compromise your values for anyone or anything.
Lorna Seilstad
#38. Whatever one believes to be true either is true or becomes true in one's mind.
Gene Fowler
#39. It's important to be true to yourself and your vision.
Nicole Polizzi
#40. You have to be true to yourself, but you have to be true to your best self, not to the self that secretly thinks you are better than other people.
Stephen Gaskin
#41. Quoting Demosthenes, 'For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true.' I would rather make money playing a piano in a whorehouse than arguing that no cost is incurred when employees are paid in stock options instead of cash. I am not kidding.
Charlie Munger
#42. Whatever the self-righteous excesses of the environmentalist left, it is impossible to be true to traditional conservative values (to say nothing of the Christian faith conservatives like me profess) and hold laissez faire attitudes about the use and abuse of the natural world.
Rod Dreher
#43. In the world of the Internet, there are many falsehoods. Anyone can write stuff on Wikipedia, and it doesn't have to be true.
Tom Hulce
#44. I take no pleasure in the fact that the scientific predictions I've relayed to popular audiences turn out to be true.
Al Gore
#45. We do not discard something we know to be true because of something we do not yet understand.
Neil L. Andersen
#46. I studied the smile, couldn't decide if it looked sincere or rehearsed. And that thought troubled me. I was good at reading people and their intentions, but only if I wasn't too invested. Once invested, I couldn't separate what I wished to be true from what was actually true.
Penny Reid
#47. Whatever you believe to be true and false, that proclaim to be true and false; whatever you think admirable and beautiful, that should be your model, even if all your friends and all the critics storm at you as a crotchet-monger and an eccentric.
George Henry Lewes
#48. It was too exactly as imagined to be true. But I felt as gladly and expectantly disorientated, as happily and alertly alone, as Alice in Wonderland.
John Fowles
#49. Just because you keep something a secret doesn't mean it never happened, no matter how much you want that to be true.
Jodi Picoult
#50. Believe only what you yourself test and judge to be true.
Gautama Buddha
#51. Does it matter whether we believe it to be true or not? It doesn't, I think. For even if we chose the one above the other and later found out the other to be true, the outcome of all of this would still be the same: all of us will be affected by it.
D. N. Edwards
#52. There is always hope and room for faith. Unless, of course, you trust the voice that screams otherwise, while ignoring the whisper that knows this to be true.
Charles F. Glassman
#53. He promised you a lot and he promised it to someone who needed it to be true. There was a disconnect in your relationship - I don't know where it stems from or why, but he did know that for once in your life you needed to not be let down. He wasn't selfless enough to do that." Oh
Tarryn Fisher
#54. We need to care about reality more than we care about what we want to be true about it.
Greta Christina
#55. Too many people get away with truly awful 'reasoning', not because what they are arguing happens to be true, but because they are in the majority.
Ellie Rose McKee
#56. It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
#57. I'd learned that when something sounded too good to be true, it almost always was.
Anonymous
#58. Jesus is the only way because the Bible says it to be true. Why? Because only He can bridge the gap between God and man; there's no other way.
Norman Geisler
#59. You ought to be true for the sake of the folks who think you are true. You never should stoop to a deed that your folks think you would not do. If you are false to yourself, be the blemish but small, you have injured your folks; you have been false to them all.
Edgar Guest
#60. As you love yourself, life loves you back. I don't think it has a choice either. I can't explain how it works, but I know it to be true.
Kamal Ravikant
#61. To have a songwriter that wrote so specifically what I felt to be true ... I've never been much of an actor either. If something is real for me, then I can do it.
Barry McGuire
#62. I think the main fight is to dissuade Americans from what the secularists are trying to persuade them to be true: that the separation of church and state means that the government cannot favor religion over nonreligion.
Antonin Scalia
#63. Queens do not remember these things,"
"Saying so does not make it true."
"You will need it to be true, for it is too cruel otherwise, to force a Queen to kill what she loves. Her own sisters. And for her to see that which she loves come at her door like wolves, seeking her head.
Kendare Blake
#64. What I discovered at six has continued to be true: in rescuing an animal, I rescue myself. This reciprocity between animals and humans is woven into the very fabric of creation. It is the ecology of Paradise.
Linda Bender
#65. For a while, the genre seemed to be just about sex and crime. Rappers are storytellers; the stories don't need to be true!
Lauryn Hill
#66. Tiger is the greatest thing that's happened to the tour in a long time. He has brought incredible attention to golf at a time of year when football and the World Series always take precedence. Everything I've heard about him seems to be true.
Payne Stewart
#67. Madame, I believe the greatest sin against God is to be false. If one is not true to one's self, then it is impossible to be true to God. I bear you no ill will for following your heart.
Diane Haeger
#68. If you can conceive something in your mind and believe it to be true, then you can achieve it.
Napoleon Hill
#69. The gulf between the information we proclaim & the information we know to be true is vast. In other words: we say one thing & do another.
Steven Levitt
#70. I sometimes think I prefer suitors in books rather than right in front of me. How awful, backward, cowardly, and mentally warped that will be if it turns out to be true.
Mary Ann Shaffer
#71. It's better to be true than to be cool. Be yourself. Do what you love.
Jamie Tworkowski
#72. Taken with the archaeological data, we can say that the old hypothesis of an invasion of people - not merely their language - from the steppe appears to be true.
Spencer Wells
#73. All the higher forms of life have evolved from some one's ideal of justice, liberty or beauty; and the belief that nothing is too good to be true.
Alice Hegan Rice
#74. Lord knows, if it's on the internet, it's got to be true!
Shawn Michaels
#75. We hadn't vowed to write every day, and we hadn't written every day. We hadn't sworn to be true to each other, because there hadn't been much to be true to.
Rachel Cohn
#76. It is good news, worthy of all acceptation; and yet not too good to be true.
Matthew Henry
#77. A film should be somewhat personal. I think that whatever you create you have to be true to yourself and create something that feels right to you.
Tom Ford
#78. But sometimes you have to pretend to be feeling better to actually feel better. It's why new workout clothes make you feel like you want to work out. I was still waiting for that one to turn out to be true . . .
Alice Clayton
#79. And doubts regarding how high the price might prove. But this is our way. This is our creed. This is the mantra of the Companions of the Hall. It can be no other way. And since we knew our course to be true, doubts could not equal regret. No matter the price. - Drizzt Do'Urden
R.A. Salvatore
#80. Fear mankind most when he fights with a consuming passion for what he perceives to be true." ~ Demo Cratia.
Farah Evers
#81. An experience, perceptual or conceptual, must conform to reality in order to be true
William James
#82. It has been thought that the people are not competent electors of judges learned in the law. But I do not know this to be true, and, if doubtful, we should follow principle.
Thomas Jefferson
#83. Sometimes even doing the right thing will leave you with scars. But beauty comes from ashes, too. And I know that to be true.
Natalie Lloyd
#84. Nietzsche claimed that a philosopher's system of thought always arises from his autobiography, and I believe that to be true for all therapists - in fact, for anyone who thinks about thought. At a conference approximately
Irvin D. Yalom
#85. Later, Kestrel wished she had spoken then, that no time had been lost. She wished that she'd had the courage that very moment to tell Arin what she'd finally known to be true: that she loved him with the whole of her heart.
Marie Rutkoski
#86. It was astonishing to see how angry Cersei could wax over accusations she knew perfectly well to be true.
George R R Martin
#87. I am led by what I find to be true, not what I find to be popular.
Alice Dreger
#88. No, not anonymous. Maybe she didn't matter enough to the Brauns, certainly not enough to her mother and Uncle Dolf, and definitely not at all to Reinhard. But she mattered to herself. And that was all that needed to be true. She would figure something out
Anne Blankman
#89. Bryson says that "we tend to regard other people's languages as we regard their cultures - with ill-hidden disdain." Too true. Unfortunately, Bryson proves himself right with a series of stories that should have set off his own too-bizarre-to-be-true detector.
Robert Lane Greene
#90. Why are the ones who are too good to be true always being true to someone else?
Jim Dodge
#91. Sure, Lena gets the credit for being the most powerful Caster of all time. Whatever. It doesn't make me any less excellent. Neither does her too-good-to-be-true Mortal boyfriend, Ethan "the Wayward" Wate, who defeats Darkness in the name of true love every day of the week.
Kami Garcia
#92. You have to be true to what you believe in and do your duty.
Wesley Clark
#93. People fell. They sinned and made mistakes and acted out crazy decisions that went against everything they knew to be true. And even then there was room for redemption.
Karen Kingsbury
#94. He always wanted to play video games," said Emma. "I hate video games."
"No one is perfect, Emma."
"But some people are perfect for each other. Don't you think that has to be true?
Cassandra Clare
#95. Some of what we learned early on turned out to be true (the earth is round; if you want a friend be a friend; cleanliness is next to impossible) and some of it turned out to be false (Santa Claus; the Tooth Fairy; Kansas is more fun than Oz).
Peter McWilliams
#96. In order to be true to one's conscience and true to God, a righteous man has no alternative but to refuse to cooperate with an evil system.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#97. Friends you will have need of, for in you two worlds meet. There is no one on both sides with you, so you must learn to take your own counsel; and not to fear what is strange, if you know it also to be true.
- Luthe
Robin McKinley
#98. One should believe only what can be chosen to be true or just. Irrational (or unjustified) beliefs should be avoided because they can have disastrous practical consequences.
Mario Bunge
#99. What appears in your life everyday is the result of what you have previously thought or felt. The speed that your thoughts and feelings appear in your life, depends on how much you believe it to be true
Franklin Gillette
#100. Stevie Wonder is just one of those guys that completely delivers everything that you want to be true about Stevie Wonder. He's an amazing human being, and the fairytale exists with that man.
Adam Levine
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