Quotes · Skopia

16 quotes

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Topic·Personal integrity✕clear

Play · Tragedy (play)

This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.

William Shakespeare

Hamlet · 1616

★ 9.5

What you would seem to be, be really.

Benjamin Franklin

1744

★ 3.9

Film · Road movie · Drama (film) · Drama

Talkin' about it and bein' it, that's two different things.

Easy Rider · 1969

★ 3.9

Essay · Philosophical literature

Integrity has no need of rules.

The Myth of Sisyphus · 1942

★ 3.8

The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.

To Kill a Mockingbird · 1960

★ 3.8

Be so true to thyself as thou be not false to others.

1625

★ 3.7

I have not loved the world, nor the world me; I have not flattered its rank breath, nor bowed To its idolatries a patient knee.

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage · 1818

★ 3.7

When I make up my mind, I act. If I speak, what I say, I will do. If the hail rattles, let the flowers be crushed. The oak of the forest will lift up its head to the sky and storm, towering and unscathed.

1836

★ 3.5

Personal journal · Philosophical literature

If not becoming, don’t do it. If not true, don’t say it. Let these be your fixed principles.

Marcus Aurelius

Meditations · 180

★ 2.3

Scripture · Religious literature

Let your yea be yea; and your nay, nay.

James 5:12

49

★ 2.2

Play · Tragedy (play)

Men should be what they seem.

William Shakespeare

Othello · 1604

★ 2.1

Essay · Magazine · Political literature

The true artist is a man who believes absolutely in himself, because he is absolutely himself.

Fortnightly Review · 1891

★ 2.0

Open letter · Letter

I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.

Lillian Hellman

1952

★ 2.0

Political literature

He who says there is no such thing as an honest man, you may be sure is himself a knave.

George Berkeley

1750

★ 1.9

Novel · Magazine · Modernist literature

I will tell you what I will do and what I will not do. I will not serve that in which I no longer believe, whether it call itself my home, my fatherland, or my church: and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defence the only arms I allow myself to use—silence, exile and cunning.

The Egoist · 1915

★ 1.9

The best of all the preachers are the men who live their creeds.

1926

★ 1.9