Truest Quotes - Page 6

• I never feel that I have comprehended an emotion, or fully lived even the smallest events, until I have reflected upon it in my journal; my pen is my truest confidant, holding in check the passions and disappointments that I dare not share even with my beloved.

  Francine Mathews

  Disappointment, Passion, Writing

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• Death is no fiend, he is the truest of friends. He delivers us from agony.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Death, Agony

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.37, Courier Corporation

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• We should teach our children nothing which they shall ever need to unlearn; we should strive to transmit to them the best possessions, the truest thought, the noblest sentiments of the age in which we live.

  Felix Adler

  Children, Age, Needs

  "Life and Destiny". Book by Felix Adler, 1903.

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• The secret of understanding poetry is to hear poetry's words as what they are: the full self's most intimate speech, half waking, half dream. You listen to a poem as you might listen to someone you love who tells you their truest day. Their words might weep, joke, whirl, leap. What's unspoken in the words will still be heard. It's also the way we listen to music: You don't look for extractable meaning, but to be moved.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Dream, Self, Understanding

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• The truest interpretations are those with the best justification.

  Bernard Ramm

  Interpretation, Justification

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• To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.

  William James

  Wise, Neglect, Deny

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• My autobiography is one of the truest, most frankly written books ever published in the western hemisphere.

  Kola Boof

  Book, Hemisphere, Autobiography

  "Kola Boof: Words with the Author of the Best Black Book of 2006". Interview with Kam Williams, aalbc.com.

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• For humans, the challenge is to unite soul and role, to discover the hidden wholeness that enables us to be in the world who we are in our souls, and to act in accordance with our deepest and truest natures.

  Andrew Himes

  Integrity, Challenges, Soul

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• The truest you can be is taking off those clothes.

  Dacher Keltner

  Clothes

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• Emancipation should make it possible for woman to be human in the truest sense. Everything within her that craves assertion and activity should reach its fullest expression; all artificial barriers should be broken, and the road towards greater freedom cleared of every trace of centuries of submission and slavery.

  Emma Goldman

  Expression, Broken, Slavery

  Emma Goldman, Candace Falk (2008). “Emma Goldman”, p.178, University of Illinois Press

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• The most familiar precepts are not always the truest.

  Marcel Proust

  Truth, Familiar

  Marcel Proust (1982). “Remembrance of Things Past: Swann's Way & Within a Budding Grove”, Vintage

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• The advertisements during intermissions are the truest reflection of an intermission from life.

  Guy Debord

  Reflection, Advertisements, Intermission

  Guy Debord, Ken Knabb (2003). “Complete cinematic works: scripts, stills, documents”, A K Pr Distribution

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• [O]ur sages in the great [constitutional] convention... intended our government should be a republic which differs more widely from a democracy than a democracy from a despotism. The rigours of a despotism often... oppress only a few, but it is the very essence and nature of a democracy, for a faction claiming to oppress a minority, and that minority the chief owners of the property and truest lovers of their country.

  Fisher Ames

  Country, Government, Essence

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• Where life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valor to dare to live.

  Thomas Browne

  Life, Death, Warrior

  Sir Thomas Browne (1831). “Miscellaneous Works of Sir Thomas Browne: With Some Account of the Author and His Writings”, p.82

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• The calmer thought is not always the right thought, just as the distant view is not always the truest view

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Views, Calmer

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• Discover the opinion of your enemies, which is commonly the truest; for they will give you no quarter, and allow nothing to complaisance.

  John Dryden

  Giving, Enemy, Opinion

  John Dryden (1808). “Prose works”, p.474

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• Keep the imagination sane--that is one of the truest conditions of communion with heaven.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Imagination, Heaven, Communion

  Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Julian Hawthorne (2015). “Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne: Letters, Diaries, Reminiscences and Extensive Biographies: Autobiographical Writings of the Renowned American Novelist, Author of “The Scarlet Letter”, “The House of Seven Gables” and “Twice-Told Tales””, p.334, e-artnow

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• But sometimes when I was starting a new story and I could not get it going, I would sit in front of the fire and squeeze the peel of the little oranges into the edge of the flame and watch the sputter of blue that they made. I would stand and look out over the roofs of Paris and think, 'Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now. All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.' So finally I would write one true sentence, and then go on from there.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Writing, Thinking, Paris

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.428, Simon and Schuster

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• Highlanders make the truest friends-if only because they make the worst enemies.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Worst Enemy, Highlander, Ifs

  Diana Gabaldon (2015). “The Outlander Series Bundle: Books 5, 6, 7, and 8: The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood”, p.1560, Delacorte Press

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• Yes, we must ever be friends; and of all who offer you friendship Let me be ever the first, the truest, the nearest and dearest.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Friendship, Best Friend, Good Friend

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1871). “The Poetical Works”, p.265

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• Singing brings out in me what I can't normally bring out in everyday life. It's an incredible feeling to be able to bare your soul to people you've never met in a way that can make them understand so clearly what you mean. That's what I love most about singing ... it becomes my truest form of communication.

  Josh Groban

  Communication, Mean, People

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• Decide on some imperfect Somebody and you will win, because the truest truism in politics is: You can't beat Somebody with Nobody.

  William Safire

  Winning, Political, Politics

  "The Quotable Politician". Book by William Whitman, p. 60, 2003.

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• The oldest, truest, most beautiful organ of music, the origin to which alone our music owes its being, is the human voice.

  Richard Wagner

  Beautiful, Voice, Organs

  Richard Wagner (1900). “Opera and Drama”, p.122, U of Nebraska Press

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• I believe dreams represent the purest form of fantasy we unleash through our subconscious. They represent the truest freedom we can experience. Totally unrepressed and totally creative.

  Miguel

  Dream, Believe, Creative

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• Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Simplicity, Distinction, Mark

  W. Somerset Maugham (1954). “Mr. Maugham Himself”

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