#be true

There are two good rules which ought to be written on every heart - never to believe anything bad about anybody unless you positively know it to be true; never to tell even that unless you feel that it is absolutely necessary, and that God is listening. ↗

— Henry Van Dyke

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You know very well that unless you're a scientist, it's much more important for a theory to be shapely, than for it to be true. ↗

— Christopher Hampton

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The teacher who would be true to his mission and accomplish the most good, must give prominence to moral as well as intellectual instruction. ↗

— Sheldon Jackson

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When words I uttered, believing them to be true, were exposed as false, I was constrained by my duties and loyalty to the President and unable to comment. But I promised reporters and the public that I would someday tell the whole story of what I knew. ↗

— Scott McClellan

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Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child, cannot be true. ↗

— Thomas Paine

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It's very easy to say that something is a shadow of itself, and it may be true in some senses. ↗

— Sydney Schanberg

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Baloney is flattery laid on so thick it cannot be true, and blarney is flattery so thin we love it. ↗

— Fulton J. Sheen

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My whole life experience feeds into my writing. I think that must be true for every writer. Clearly the Army and combat were major influences; just the same, you need to understand that many of the writers we have now couldn't load a revolver. ↗

— Gene Wolfe

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The current wisdom now is that if the three networks are covering the news the same way the difference is the anchor people. I think that won't be true in the future. ↗

— Roone Arledge

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Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah. ↗

— Richard Bach

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