Truly Good Quotes

34 quotes by 30 authors

He is incapable of a truly good action who finds not a pleasure in contemplating the good actions of others. — Johann Kaspar Lavater
In opposition to the plenary ability taught by the Pelagians, the gracious ability of the Arminians, and the natural ability of the New School theologians,… — Augustus Hopkins Strong
A truly good book is something as natural, and as unexpectedly and unaccountably fair and perfect, as a wild-flower discovered on the prairies of the… — Henry David Thoreau
The truly good gaze upon everything with love and understanding. — Dalai Lama
After a truly good meal, an outstanding cigar is still the most satisfying after-dinner activity that doesn't involve two human beings. — Brad Shaw
What matters in the end in literature, what is always there, is the truly good. And- though played out forms can throw up miraculous sports… — V.S. Naipaul
A truly good movie is enjoyable too. Thereâ€™s nothing complicated about it. — Akira Kurosawa
Let us not esteem worldly prosperity or adversity as things real or of any moment, but let us live elsewhere, and raise all our attention… — Gregory of Nazianzus
Nothing can make a man truly great but being truly good, and partaking of God's holiness. — Matthew Henry
Almost the first thing I did when I became ill was to buy a truly good television set. — Harold Brodkey
A truly good book is something as wildly natural and primitive, mysterious and marvelous, ambrosial and fertile as a fungus or a lichen. — Henry David Thoreau
In regeneration, the mind is enlightened in the knowledge of spiritual things... The will is renewed... The will is cured of its utter inability to… — Thomas Boston
The best ideas often look terrible at the beginning the truly good ideas, don't seem like they're worth stealing. — Sam Altman
The Internet offers immense possibilities for encounter and solidarity. This is something truly good, a gift from God. — Pope Francis
One who is by nature daring and is suffering from poverty will not long be law-abiding. Indeed, any men, save those that are truly good,… — Confucius
Too many Americans go to too many prisons for far too long, and for no truly good law enforcement reason. — Eric Holder
The second that you make a man truly free, he becomes truly good. And it is only that individual who has lost his belief in… — L. Ron Hubbard
A truly good book attracts very little favor to itself. It is so true that it teaches me better than to read it. I must… — Henry David Thoreau
There is no better proof of a man's being truly good than his desiring to be constantly under the observation of good men. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I… — Henry David Thoreau

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