Roughly, it means that if you are true to your own ideas, beliefs, convictions and morals, then, just “like the sun rises every morning,” you will never have to consider yourself false (or a liar) to any other person because your actions follow your own beliefs.

It is all about interpretation. I believe this quote is from Hamlet, isn’t it? Anyways, throughout our lives, all of us have come across a person that we often describe as fake (Whether it be that they are nice to your face, and rude when you turn your back – or if they have to make up lies to seem more important or different then the person they truly are.) William Shakespeare realized this, the quotes roughly means that, sure – you can lie and pretend but, as surely as if there is day, there will be night – your true self will always bubble to the surface. No matter how hard you try to fool another person, most of the time – you aren’t fooling anyone. Or you could say that he is simply saying to be who you are, not who other people want you to be.

Hope I could help – I love and have read much of Shakespeares work and the title caught my eye the second I saw it.

It appears no one is certain of the meaning of “conscience” here, not even the most famous literary critics. So let’s use a quote from Oliver Goldsmith: “A bad conscience will make us cowards; but a good conscience will make us brave.” – Oliver Goldsmith, “On the Use of Metaphors” (1765), in The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith, James Prior, ed. (Philadelphia, 1875), vol. I.

from what i can tell you, this qoute of Shakespeare’s means that it is very important for one to be true to themselves. For being true to yourself gives you strength and the ability to achieve something beyond your wildest imagination…….it helps to be a couraging factor that’ll be an essestial key which opens the door to greatness……..”some men are born great, some achieve greatness, while others have greatness have greatness thrust upon them”………..i leave the rest to you…….have fun

If you are true to yourself first, then you being honest to/with others will follow, just like how night follows day

To thine own self be true…..how profound. How many of us have a hard time being true to ourselves? Those of us that gave our life to another at the cost of loosing who we are in the process will have a hard time being true to ourselves. Allowing someone else to define who we are, we lose our ability to discover and grow inwardly. We no longer are able to discern a truth from a lie. For many of us, we have accepted lies for so long, that finding out what is true takes time. Having done this very thing, I know how difficult the journey to self-discovery can be.

Truth….truth is a word that brings out such negative reactions to many of us. You see truth is really an action word. You cannot accept truth without change. Accepting truth about ourselves is difficult, especially to those of us who have been abused. But

truth does set one free if we will allow it to; it is a crucial part of healing. It gives us the freedom to be who we are. We are able to come to terms with our weakness (without condemnation) and appreciate our strength. Truth gives strength; it naturally builds healthy boundaries. Truth is open; it is honest even at the risk of being vulnerable again. Truth is light and brings forth life. When we walk in truth, we walk in light and when we walk in light we live a healthy life.

Truth is also love. The greatest act of love towards another is living a life that is truthful. For those of us who find it difficult to love ourselves, we will find it will come more easily when we walk in truth about who we are. If we walk in truth, we walk in perfect love, and if we walk in perfect love, then we do not walk in fear because perfect love cast out fear. Because we have been honest with ourselves, we are able to love ourselves with all of our imperfections, knowing that we are in “process” and therefore need not have others approval. This is freedom indeed.

The second part of this verse is a natural occurrence if we hold true to the first part of the verse. So, when in doubt as to our motives of not being truthful with someone….look inside, are we being less than truthful to ourselves?