“Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are. ”
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Oprah Winfrey (1954) American businesswoman, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist
Source: The Uncommon Wisdom of Oprah Winfrey: A Portrait in Her Own Words
“Scepticism is the first step towards truth.”
Denis Diderot book Philosophical thoughts
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
Margaret Sanger (1879–1966) American birth control activist, educator and nurse
"Morality and Birth Control", February-March, 1918, pp. 11,14.
Birth Control Review, 1918-32
Christian Nestell Bovee (1820–1904) American writer
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”
William Stanley Jevons The Theory of Political Economy
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.”
Salman Rushdie The Ground Beneath Her Feet
Source: The Ground Beneath Her Feet