Truest Quotes
239 Truest quotes by 199 unique authors
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We hail science as man's truest friend and noblest helper.
— Moses Harvey
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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…
— Fisher Ames
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An excess of development can undermine the most ephemeral but distinctive tool a writer possesses: authorial voice. A writer's voice is as individual and marked…
— David Wright
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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…
— Charles Spurgeon
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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…
— Ralph Waldo Trine
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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…
— Lettie Cowman
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Those that will not permit their wealth to do any good for others. . . cut themselves off from the truest pleasure here and the…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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Purity of life is the highest and truest art.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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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…
— Miguel de Cervantes
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Virtue is the truest nobility.
— Miguel de Cervantes
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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…
— Henry David Thoreau
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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.…
— B.K.S. Iyengar
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To do so no more is the truest repentance.
— Martin Luther
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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…
— Euripides
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The stillest tongue can be the truest friend.
— 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…
— Susan Sontag
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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…
— Julian Barnes
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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
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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…
— Sue Monk Kidd
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What of us lies in the hearts of others is our truest and deepest self.
— Johann Gottfried Herder
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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…
— Natalie Merchant
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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…
— Vikram Seth
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My own soul is my most faithful friend. My own heart, my truest confidant
— Babur
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I'm a patriot in the truest sense of the word.
— Al Sharpton
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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…
— Katharine Fullerton Gerould
Who Wrote These Truest Quotes
199 authors contributed a total of 239 Truest Quotes, led by these top contributors: