“Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are. ”
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Джулиус Чарльз Хэар 1
1795–1855Related quotes

Source: The Uncommon Wisdom of Oprah Winfrey: A Portrait in Her Own Words

“Scepticism is the first step towards truth.”
As quoted in The Anchor Book of French Quotations with English Translations (1963) by Norbert Gutermam
Pensées Philosophiques (1746)
Variant: A thing is not proved just because no one has ever questioned it. What has never been gone into impartially has never been properly gone into. Hence skepticism is the first step toward truth. It must be applied generally, because it is the touchstone.
Variant: The first step towards philosophy is incredulity.
Source: Pensées philosophiques

"Morality and Birth Control", February-March, 1918, pp. 11,14.
Birth Control Review, 1918-32
it is greatness itself.
Reported in Louis Klopsch, Many Thoughts of Many Minds (1896), p. 133.

“A correct theory is the first step towards improvement”
Source: The Theory of Political Economy (1871), Chapter I, Introduction, p. 44.
Context: A correct theory is the first step towards improvement, by showing what we need and what we might accomplish.

“When you know what you're against you have taken the first step to discovering what you're for.”
Source: The Ground Beneath Her Feet