Truest Quotes - Page 8

• 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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• The truest lengthening of life is to live while we live, wasting no time but using every hour for the highest ends. So be it this day.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Life Is, Hours, Ends

  Charles Spurgeon (2015). “Daily Devotion - 365 Days With Jesus”, p.132, Editora Dracaena

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• And so it is true in this sense that there is essentially but one religion, the religion of the living God. For to live in the conscious realisation of the fact that God lives in us, is indeed the life of our life, and that in ourselves we have no independent life, and hence no power, is the one great fact of all true religion, even as it is the one great fact of human life. Religion, therefore, at its purest, and life at its truest, are essentially and necessarily one and the same.

  Ralph Waldo Trine

  Independent, Oneness, Facts

  Ralph Waldo Trine (2013). “Thoughts I Met on the Highway and Other Truths”, p.89, Simon and Schuster

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• God has so ordered, that in pressing on in duty we shall find the truest, richest comfort for ourselves. Sitting down to brood over our sorrows, the darkness deepens about us and creeps into our heart, and our strength changes to weakness. But, if we turn away from the gloom, and take up the tasks and duties to which God calls us, the light will come again, and we shall grow stronger.

  Lettie Cowman

  Heart, Light, Darkness

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• Purity of life is the highest and truest art.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Art, Life Is, Purity

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.174, A&C Black

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• Do but take care to express yourself in a plain, easy Manner, in well-chosen, significant and decent Terms, and to give a harmonious and pleasing Turn to your Periods: study to explain your Thoughts, and set them in the truest Light, labouring as much as possible, not to leave them dark nor intricate, but clear and intelligible.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Communication, Dark, Light

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993). “Don Quixote”, p.7, Wordsworth Editions

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• When I hear the hypercritical quarreling about grammar and style, the position of the particles, etc., etc., stretching or contracting every speaker to certain rules of theirs. I see that they forget that the first requisite and rule is that expression shall be vital and natural, as much as the voice of a brute or an interjection: first of all, mother tongue; and last of all, artificial or father tongue. Essentially your truest poetic sentence is as free and lawless as a lamb's bleat.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Mother, Father, Writing

  Henry David Thoreau (2006). “Thoreau and the Art of Life: Precepts and Principles”, p.13, Heron Dance Press

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• Faith, courage, and intelligent and uninterrupted awareness - these qualities are to be present whether one is wide awake, half asleep, or in deep slumber. An individual who lives like this performs his daily actions with a mind free from selfishness. This is poise in action. And this poise leads to that serenity which is in the truest sense a healthy mind in a healthy body.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Intelligent, Serenity, Healthy

  B. K. S. Iyengar (2016). “Sparks of Divinity: The Teachings of B. K. S. Iyengar”, p.107, Shambhala Publications

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• If your life at night is good, you think you have Everything; but, if in that quarter things go wrong, You will consider your best and truest interests Most hateful.

  Euripides

  Sex, Night, Thinking

  Euripides (2012). “Medea”, p.18, Courier Corporation

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• The stillest tongue can be the truest friend.

  Euripides

  Silence, Tongue

  Euripides (1942). “Euripides”

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• Jews and homosexuals are the outstanding creative minorities in contemporary urban culture. Creative, that is, in the truest sense: they are creators of sensibilities. The two pioneering forces of modern sensibility are Jewish moral seriousness and homosexual aestheticism and irony.

  Susan Sontag

  Two, Creative, Culture

  Susan Sontag (2014). “A Susan Sontag Reader”, p.177, Macmillan

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• Do we tend to recall the most important parts of a novel or those that speak most directly to us, the truest lines or the flashiest ones?

  Julian Barnes

  Important, Lines, Speak

  "The road not taken" by Julian Barnes, www.theguardian.com. October 8, 2005.

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• Those who have the largest hearts have the soundest understandings; and they are the truest philosophers who can forget themselves.

  William Hazlitt

  Wisdom, Heart, Understanding

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• I eventually found that the soul is more than an immortal commodity to win and save. It is the repository of the inner divine, the truest part of us.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Winning, Soul, Commodity

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• What of us lies in the hearts of others is our truest and deepest self.

  Johann Gottfried Herder

  Lying, Heart, Self

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• There is one tradition in America I am proud to inherit. It is our first freedom and the truest expression of our Americanism: the ability to dissent without fear. It is our right to utter the words, 'I disagree.' We must feel at liberty to speak those words to our neighbors, our clergy, our educators, our news media, our lawmakers and, above all, to the one among us we elect - President.

  Natalie Merchant

  Media, Expression, America

  "What is Patriotism?". www.thenation.com. July 15, 1991.

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• Every object strives for its proper place. A book seeks to be near its truest admirer. Just as this helpless moth seeks to be near the candle that infatuates him.

  Vikram Seth

  Book, Strive, Admirer

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• My own soul is my most faithful friend. My own heart, my truest confidant

  Babur

  Heart, Soul, Faithful

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• I'm a patriot in the truest sense of the word.

  Al Sharpton

  Patriot

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• Funny how people despise platitudes, when they are usually the truest thing going. A thing has to be pretty true before it gets to be a platitude.

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould

  Truth, People, Despise

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1916). “Vain Oblations”

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• I have always been thinking of the different ways in which Christianity is taught, and whenever I find one way that makes it a wider blessing than any other, I cling to that as the truest--I mean that which takes in the most good of all kinds, and brings in the most people as sharers in it. It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.

  George Eliot

  Mean, Blessing, Thinking

  George Eliot (2004). “Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life”, p.400, Broadview Press

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• Poets alone are sure of immortality; they are the truest diviners of nature.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Poet, Immortality

  "Caxtoniana". Essay XXVII, 1863.

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• If you want to know what a man's character is really like... ask him to tell you the living person he most admires - for hero worship is the truest index of a man's private nature.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Hero, Character, Men

  Sydney J. Harris (1976). “Best of Sydney J. Harris”

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