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To save the world requires faith and courage: faith in reason, and courage to proclaim what reason shows to be true.
True believers just don't see things the way they are, because if they did, they wouldn't be true believers anymore.
You create the happiness and the balance that you have, and your own power. This is one thing that I know to be true.
If appearances are deceitful, then they do not deserve any confidence when they assert what appears to them to be true.
It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.
It will be true work that the kids can follow, as opposed to a facade of you doin' something, and you're doin' nothing.
I don't actually think “true love” is such a good term because love can only be true. If it isn't true it can't be love.
Empirical laws [...] have only slight or even no value beyond the limits within which they have been observed to be true.
A common objection to inherited wealth is that it stifles the urge to work. I have not generally observed this 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.
I cannot stress often enough that what science is all about is not proving things to be true but proving them to be false.
Though what we accept be true, it is a prejudice unless we ourselves have considered and understood why and how it is true.
All possible knowledge, then, depends on the validity of reasoning...Unless human reasoning is valid no science can be true.
Just be true to you. What works for me might not work for someone else and what works for someone else might not work for me.
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.
What’s the good of being true to your religion on the outside, if you don’t change what’s on the inside,were it really counts ?
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.
When you're believing in the person that you're playing, you feel protected. It's about being true to that person you're playing.
Nothing but the right can ever be expedient, since that can never be true expediency which would sacrifice a great good to a less.
Knowing that the gospel is true is the essence of a testimony. Consistently being true to the gospel is the essence of conversion.
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.
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.
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.
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.
They [formulae 1.10 - 1.12 of Ramanujan] must be true because, if they were not true, no one would have had the imagination to invent them.
It doesn't matter how many times you say it. It'll still be true.' 'And it doesn't matter what you won't let me say, that'll still be true too.
While it may be true – and probably is – that not all Muslims are terrorists, it also happens to be true that nearly all terrorists are Muslim.
Because on some level, even though it never turns out to be true, and even though I should know better, I still expect life to be like the movies.
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.
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.
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.
The history of drawing is a history of 'realities'. Every age has its own conceptions, held to be true at that time, believed to be true for all times.
But a big paradigm shift is staring us in the face. If I left things to someone else despite having my own thoughts on it, I wouldn't be true to myself.
I believe that this whole question of some photography being true and some untrue is a non-question. Photography is not objective; it never was objective.
Folks always seemed to think that as long as they didn't know about something bad, it wasn't happening, so whoever told them actually caused it to be true.
We know nothing. And just because you know something to be true at this moment in your life or you feel that it is true, you can never be sure of yourself.
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.
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.
In Buddhism, compassion always goes with wisdom. Compassion without wisdom is not understood to be true compassion, and wisdom without compassion is not true wisdom.
I know what I did to you was so wrong, but at the time it also felt so necessary to my survival. I don't know if those two things can both be true, but that's how it was.
When we trust someone, we believe what they tell us is true. We experience it as being true. It's not the experience itself that empowers us to believe it. It is the trust.
Gillian [Jacobs] is brilliant, and it was Lena Dunham that recommended her. I didn't see her in the part, but Lena told me that Gillian can do anything. It turned out to be true.
The getting out part [of advise] may well be true. Because if you have tried the tender love thing... typically the abuser is not going to change until they are pushed in a corner.
There is not one life that doesn’t add tremendous value to the whole. Somewhere inside of us we know this to be true; we hear the call to head in the direction of this bigger life.
Even though I'm seventeen, I guess I still thought this would always be true - that there would always be that lost-and-found, and not the lost-and-still-lost that I am now trapped inside.
I do not need to know all things. I remind myself that it is sufficient that I know what I know and know that without believing that I will always know what I know or that what I know will always be true.
Pursue whatever it is that you want to do with your life. It is the only secret to happiness that I know except for maybe true love, that and maybe having the amazing health insurance plan that our congressmen have.
To recognize that you are radically free, in Sartre's sense, but then to live as if you weren't, is to live in bad faith, in denial of what you know to be true. And that's not something anyone can sensibly want to do.
If it is correct to say that there will always be rightist temperaments and leftist temperaments, it is nevertheless also correct to say that political philosophy is neither rightist nor leftist; it must simply be true .
I prize the conditions under which I have lived because they have permitted me to choose my opportunities, to inquire into such matters as interested me, and to publish what I believed to be true, uncontrolled by any central authority.