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39 of the best book quotes about true
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“I know three things will never be believed - the true, the probable, and the logical.”
John Steinbeck
author
The Winter of Our Discontent
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believing
logic
true
probabilities
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“You are grieving because you loved truly.”
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“Our hearts connect with lots of folks in a lifetime but most of us will go to our graves with no experience of true love.”
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“He’s much too smart to fall for this, but he wants it to be true. He wants it to be true more than he wants the truth. The smile that breaks across his face is cautious, but so beautiful that I can’t look away. I would lie to him again for that smile.”
Madeline Whittier
Olly
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“He was a true, a perfect gentle-knight.”
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“It was an odd thing, but true, that the death of an enemy could affect you as much almost as much as the death of a friend.”
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“Sometimes people hold a core belief that is very strong. When they are presented with evidence that works against that belief, the new evidence cannot be accepted.”
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“Human beings are not reasonable creatures. Instead of being ruled by logic, we are ruled by emotions. The world would be a happier place if the opposite were true.”
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“There is ‘true’ Knowledge. Learn thou it is this: To see one changeless Life in all the Lives, And in the Separate, One Inseparable.”
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″‘I don’t really know,’ I heard myself say. I felt a deep shock hearing myself say that, because the minute I said it, I knew it was true.”
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“Whoever serve Me--as I show Myself-- Constantly true, in full devotion fixed, Those hold I very holy.”
Anonymous
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Krishna
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service
holiness
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“Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is You-er than You!”
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“It’s a time when men and women come to know what they truly are. A time of purging.” I’d been looking at the ceiling as he spoke. At his final words, I turned to face him in surprise. “Is that what the Catholics mean by purgatory?” “In essence.” He nodded. “A period during which each soul is cleansed by a self-imposed recognition of past deeds—and misdeeds.”
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“Don’t surrender all your joy for an idea you used to have about yourself that isn’t true anymore.”
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“Don’t surrender all your joy for an idea you used to have about yourself that isn’t true anymore.”
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“How, may I ask, did you get so you, you beautiful true-to-you doer? I’ve met many today but can honestly say that I’ve never met anyone you-er”
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“I do not understand how a man can be a true believer, in whom sin is not the greatest burden, sorrow and trouble.”
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“It was a once in a lifetime thing. I hate to think it but I bet it’s true. It’s too bad for us that our once in a lifetime happened when were too young to handle it.”
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“The boy who proved what I’ve always known to be true: The game is never over till it’s over.BONG!”
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“Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable.”
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“This they tell, and whether it happened so or not I do not know; but if you think about it, you can see that it is true.”
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“The Beautiful exists just as little as the True. In every case it is a question of the conditions of preservation of a certain type of man: thus the herd-man will experience the value feeling of the True in different things than will the Overman.”
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“Well, it is true. Sometimes avoiding something can give it more and more meaning rather than less and less.”
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“For if anyone says that all things are true then he is making even the negation of his own claim true, so that his own statement in turn is not true . . . while if anyone says that all things are false, then he is making his own claim to be false.”
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“There is recompense for suffering. A principle beyond selfishness is at work in the cosmos. All will be well. I do not know whether any of this is true. I am certain that the scientific community does not know that it is false.”
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“Fear is the great enemy of intimacy. Fear makes us run away from each other or cling to each other but does not create true intimacy.”
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“The easiest lies to tell are the true ones.”
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My dear, Is it true that your mind is sometimes like a battering Ram Running all through the city, Shouting so madly inside and out About the ten thousand things That do not matter?”
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“In those hours he is awake and prowling through the building, he sometimes feels he is a demon who has disguised himself as a human, and only at night is it safe to shed the costume he must wear by daylight, and indulge his true nature.”
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“Good soldiers know that if they don’t recognize who their enemy is, they are destined to lose the war. That is also true for those of us who battle in God’s army.”
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“My cousin Herb drives a bus almost every day! True story!”
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″ ‘Sure,’ said Mike, ‘but Mary Anne can dig as much in a day as a hundred men can dig in a week.’ Though he wasn’t quite sure that this was true.”
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“She plucked off a berry. She started to gnaw it. It tasted just awful. Almost made her sick. But she wanted that tail, so she swallowed it quick. Then she felt something happen! She felt a small twitch as if she’d been tapped, down behind, by a switch. And Gertrude looked ‘round. And she cheered! It was true! Two feathers! Exactly like Lolla-Lee-Lou!”
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“The truest, most beautiful life never promises to be an easy one.”
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“Humanity is innocent; humanity is guilty, and both states are undeniably true.”
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″ ‘Make ups are all very well,’ said Papa, ‘as long as people don’t try to make you believe they are true. When they do that, it seems to me it comes too near the edge of falsehood to be very safe or pleasant.’ ”
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First of all, Gracie doesn’t want to know the Birdman, scared the rumours are true, not only about the Birdman, but about Samson too.
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“When I was young I told a tale of buried gold, and men from leagues around dug in the woods. I dug myself. But why? I thought the tale of treasure might be true.”
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The Whole Duty of Children A child should always say what’s true And speak when he is spoken to, And behave mannerly at table; At least as far as he is able.

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