Truest Quotes - Page 2

• Perhaps the truest axiom in baseball is that the toughest thing to do is repeat.

  Walter Alston

  Sports, Baseball, Psychology

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• A great empire and little minds go ill together.

  Edmund Burke

  Mind, Together, Littles

  Speech 'On Conciliation with America' 22 March 1775

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• As I keep saying, fiction is truth. I think fiction is the truest thing there ever was.

  Arundhati Roy

  Thinking, Fiction

  Source: progressive.org

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• The Bible is the truest utterance that ever came by alphabetic letters from the soul of man, through which, as through a window divinely opened, all men can look into the stillness of eternity, and discern in glimpses their far-distant, long-forgotten home.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Bible, Home, Biblical

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• Writing, at its best and truest, can offer solace and salvation for both readers and writers.

  Roxane Gay

  Writing, Salvation, Solace

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• The truest test of independent judgment is being able to dislike someone who admires us, and to admire someone who dislikes us.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Independent, Dislike Someone, Independence

  Sydney J. Harris (1972). “For the Time Being”

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• Time is the truest form of wealth. And the beauty is, we are all born equally rich in time.

  Rolf Potts

  Wealth, Rich, Form

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• Travel at its truest is thus an ironic experience.

  Paul Fussell

  Travel, Ironic

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• One of the truest tests of spiritual maturity is seeing the miraculous in the monotonous.

  Mark Batterson

  Spiritual, Maturity, Tests

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• The truest wild beasts live in the most populous places.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Cities, Beast, Wild Beasts

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• The cross is the surest, truest and deepest window on the very heart and character of the living and loving God.

  N. T. Wright

  Heart, Character, Window

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• The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may going to prove one's self a fool.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Hero, Self, Doubt

  The Blithedale Romance ch. 2 (1852)

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• The truest poetry is the most feigning.

  William Shakespeare

  Poetry Is, Touchstones, Feigning

  William Shakespeare (1832). “Hamlet, and As you like it, a specimen of a new ed. of Shakespeare [by T. Caldecott]. by T. Caldecott”

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• Reserve is the truest expression of respect towards those who are its objects.

  Thomas de Quincey

  Expression, Objects, Reserves

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• In the truest sense, Christian pilgrims have the best of both worlds. We have joy whenever this world reminds us of the next, and we take solace whenever it does not.

  C. S. Lewis

  Christian, Joy, Doe

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• The truest self-respect is not to think of self.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Thinking, Self, Self Respect

  "Life Thoughts, Gathered from the Extemporaneous Discourses of Henry Ward Beecher, by One of His Congregation". Book edited by Edna Dean Proctor, 1859.

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• One of the hardest and truest things a grown-up learns is that sometimes it's not okay.

  Christopher Buehlman

  Sometimes, Okay, Hardest

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• To do so no more is the truest repentance.

  Martin Luther

  Repentance

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• The truest writers are those who see language not as a linguistic process but as a living element.

  Derek Walcott

  Black History, Elements, Language

  Derek Walcott (2014). “What the Twilight Says: Essays”, p.62, Macmillan

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• Kindness is the truest wisdom of life and we cannot go far without it.

  Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

  Kindness, Life Wisdom

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• Virtue is the truest nobility.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Literature, Virtue, Nobility

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1719). “THE HISTORY Of the RENOWNED Don QUIXOTE De la MANCHA.”, p.129

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• The truest success is but the development of self.

  Charles Atlas

  Self, Development

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• When people aren't expecting to be seen, they look their truest.

  Graham Swift

  People, Looks, Expecting

  Graham Swift (2012). “The Sweet Shop Owner”, p.234, Pan Macmillan

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• The truest experience of life is when we dream awake.

  Alberto Villoldo

  Dream, Life Is, Awake

  FaceBook post by Alberto Villoldo from Mar 29, 2016

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• The truest politeness comes of sincerity.

  Samuel Smiles

  Sincerity, Politeness

  Samuel Smiles (1872). “Character”, p.238

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