Ring out the false, ring in the true.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the importance of discarding falsehoods and embracing truth.
Alfred Lord Tennyson's quote 'Ring out the false, ring in the true' suggests a call for clarity and authenticity in life. It encourages individuals to identify and reject what is insincere or misleading, while actively welcoming honesty and genuine values. This sentiment resonates deeply in a world often clouded by deception and misinformation, highlighting the transformative power of truth in personal and societal contexts.
In practice
This quote can be used in a speech about integrity and honesty.
Twilight and evening bell, And after that the dark! And may there be no sadness of farewell, When I embark; For though from out our bourne of Time and Place The flood may bear me far, I hope to see my Pilot face to face When I have crossed the bar.
How many a father have I seen, A sober man, among his boys, Whose youth was full of foolish noise.
O Love! what hours were thine and mine, In lands of palm and southern pine; In lands of palm, of orange-blossom, Of olive, aloe, and maize and vine!
Earth is dry to the centre,_x000D_ But spring, a new comer,_x000D_ A spring rich and strange,_x000D_ Shall make the winds blow_x000D_ Round and round,_x000D_ Thro' and thro',_x000D_ Here and there,_x000D_ Till the air_x000D_ And the ground_x000D_ Shall be fill'd with life anew.
O love, O fire! once he drew With one long kiss my whole soul through My lips, as sunlight drinketh dew.
But thy strong Hours indignant work’d their wills, And beat me down and marr’d and wasted me, And tho’ they could not end me, left me maim’d To dwell in presence of immortal youth, Immortal age beside immortal youth, And all I was, in ashes. - Tithonus
Choice is the engine of our evolution ... if you choose unconsciously, you will evolve unconsciously. If you choose consciously, you will evolve consciously
It was the first and most striking characteristic of Socrates never to become heated in discourse, never to utter an injurious or insulting word -- on the contrary, he persistently bore insult from others and thus put an end to the fray.
The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.
Back then, things were plainer: less money, no electronic devices, little fashion tyranny, no girlfriends. There was nothing to distract us from our human and filial duty which was to study, pass exams, use those qualifications to find a job, and then put together a way of life unthreateningly fuller than that of our parents, who would approve, while privately comparing it to their own earlier lives, which had been simpler, and therefore superior.
In the consciousness of the infinite, the conscious subject has for his object the infinity of his own nature.
Nonviolence against humans cannot take firm hold in society as long as brutality and violence are practiced toward other animals.
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