Best True Ones Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“What is the use of straining after an amiable view of things, when a cynical view is most likely to be the true one?.”

Use Funny Views Sarcasm Sarcastic Cynical Cynicism Cynic Amiable True Ones

Book:The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more

Source: The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more

“In my early years I read very hard. It is a sad reflection, but a true one, that I knew almost as much at eighteen as I do now.”

Years Book Hard Reflection Eighteen True Ones

Author:Samuel Johnson

“It is only the basest writer who cannot speak of the sea without talking of "raging waves," "remorseless floods," "ravenous billows," etc.; and it is one of the signs of the highest power in a writer to check all such habits of thought, and to keep his eyes fixed firmly on the pure fact , out of which if any feeling comes to him or his reader, he knows it must be a true one.”

Ifs Knows Facts Feelings Eye Speak Talking Sea Reader Habit Pure Highest Wave Rage Checks Fixed His Eyes Etc Flood True Ones Remorseless

Book:The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings

Source: The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings

“False beliefs can be every bit as consoling as true ones, right up until the moment of disillusionment.”

Moments Belief Bits Disillusionment Consoling True Ones

Book:The God Delusion

Source: The God Delusion

“The slaving Poor are incapable of any Principles: Gentlemen may be converted to true Principles, by Time and Experience. The middling Rank of Men have Curiosity and Knowledge enough to form Principles, but not enough to form true ones, or correct any Prejudices that they may have imbib'd: And 'tis among the middling Rank, that Tory Principles do at present prevail most in England.”

Men May Enough Form Poor Principles Prejudice England Curiosity Gentleman Incapable True Ones

Book:The philosophical works of David Hume

Source: The philosophical works of David Hume

“The true one of youth's love, proving a faithful helpmate in those years when the dream of life is over, and we live in its realities.”

Love Years Dream Reality Life Is Youth Prove Faithful True Ones

Author:Robert Southey

“When a false argument puts on the appearance of a true one, then it is properly called a sophism or fallacy.”

Argument Appearance Fallacy True Ones Sophistry

Book:The works of the Rev. Isaac Watts D.D. in nine volumes

Source: The works of the Rev. Isaac Watts D.D. in nine volumes

“Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition of our existence. If the lore of the transmigration of souls is a true one, then these, between their exchange of bodies, must pass through the sea of forgetfulness.”

Ifs Book Soul Body Remember Forget Existence Sea Conditions Opposites Forgetfulness True Ones

Book:The Nazarene

Source: The Nazarene

“Assertion of truths known and felt, promulgation of truth from the high platform of truth itself, declaration of faith by the mouth of moral conviction--this is the New Testament method, and the true one.”

Felt Known Moral Mouths Method Conviction Platforms Testament Declaration New Testament Assertion True Ones

Author:J. G. Holland

“Without independent corroboration, little can be done to tell a false memory from a true one.”

Littles Done Memories Independent True Ones

Author:Elizabeth Loftus

“What is more true than anything else? To swim is true and to sink is true. One cannot speak any more of being, one must speak onlyof the mess.”

Truth Speak Existence Mess Swim True Ones

Author:Samuel Beckett

“There's nothing in the world like buried treasure-and people hungry and obsessed enough to risk their lives for it. Pirate Hunters isn't just a good story-it's a true one. Searching for the souls of its explorers, it takes you to the far tip of the plank and plunges you deep to the bottom of the ocean.”

People World Soul Enough Stories Risk Ocean Bottom Treasure Hungry Obsessed Buried Hunters Pirate Good Story Plunge Explorers True Ones Buried Treasure

Author:Brad Meltzer

“The reason we have few friends in adversity, is, because we have no true ones in prosperity.”

Reason Friends Adversity Prosperity Few Friends True Ones

Author:Norm MacDonald

“It is in numberless instances happier to have a false opinion which we believe true, than a true one of which we doubt.”

Believe Opinion Doubt Instance True Ones

Author:Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

“The most familiar quotations are the most likely to be misquoted. Some misquotations are still variable, some have settled down to false versions that have obscured the true ones. They have passed over from literature into speech.”

Stills Literature Speech Familiar Versions Quotations Variables True Ones

Author:Carl Clinton Van Doren

“I had learnt from experience that many false opinions may be exchanged for true ones, without in the least altering the habits of mind of which false opinions are made.”

Mind May Made Opinion Habit Habits Of Mind True Ones

Book:Collected Works: Principles of political economy with some of their applications to social philosophy : books 3-5 and appendices

Source: Collected Works: Principles of political economy with some of their applications to social philosophy : books 3-5 and appendices

“. . . a woman can be a woman and a true one without having all her time engrossed by dress and society.”

Dresses True Ones

Author:M. Carey Thomas

“In any war story, but especially a true one, it's difficult to separate what happened from what seemed to happen.”

War Stories Happens Difficult Happened True Ones War Stories

Book:The Things They Carried

Source: The Things They Carried

“If one were loyal to one's nation only because it was good and true ... one would not be loyal to any nation but to truth and goodness. The idea of patriotism would have no place either in our dictionaries or our lives.”

Ifs Ideas Nations Our Lives Goodness Loyal Dictionary True Ones

Author:Max Eastman

“Making wishes on the elephant is emotionally dangerous, because inevitably one's hopes rise abnormally high, unhealthily high, and when the wish does not come true, one's high hopes get crushed more painfully than if one had not asked for the help of supernatural powers. Therefore, one should always try to make the wish casually and forget about it instantly after making it, which is what I try to do now.”

Ifs Should Trying Doe Helping Wish Forget Dangerous Elephants Crushed True Ones Supernatural Powers

Author:Amanda Filipacchi

“Don't be sad and don't give up on your dreams. Dreams will come true one day. There's no person as beautiful as a person who dreams”

Giving Persons Dream Beautiful One Day Giving Up Your Dreams Don't Give Up True Ones Don't Be Sad

Author:Kim Him-chan

“We have chosen Mahomet not as the most eminent Prophet; but as the one we are freest to speak of. He is by no means the truest of Prophets; but I do esteem him a true one.”

Mean Speak Chosen Esteem Prophet Truest True Ones

Book:The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle

Source: The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle

“False judges are held up in the world's admiration and I alone know the true ones.”

Knows World Judging Admiration True Ones

Book:The fall

Source: The fall

“The interpretation that makes you ardent and hopeful and active and reverent is the true one.”

Active Hopeful Interpretation Ardent True Ones

Author:Rumi

“The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.”

Source: Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah

“It was a dogma throughout most of the 20th century that quantum science only applied to subatomic matter, and we now know that not to be true. One of the major discoveries was Quantum Holography.”

Knows Matter Century Majors Discovery Being True Dogma Quantum 20th Century True Ones

Author:Edgar Mitchell

“There are limits to what we can do. That's for sure. That is true. One of the downsides of a growing economy [is that] we're accommodating a lot more people. They're buying houses and the market is growing. That is part of the downside of that, but I think that all of us do have to decide to act on it.”

People Thinking House Can Do Economy Growing Limits Buying True Ones Growing Economy Buying A House

Author:Christy Clark

“For small erections may be finished by their first architects; grand ones, true ones, ever leave the copestone to posterity. God keep me from ever completing anything. This whole book is but a draught—nay, but the draught of a draught. Oh, Time, Strength, Cash, and Patience!”

Firsts May Book Whole Finished Architect Cash Posterity Completing Draught True Ones

Book:Moby-Dick

Source: Moby-Dick

“To do well those thing which God ordained to be the common lot of all man-kind, is the truest greatness. To be a successful father or a successful mother is greater than to be a successful general or a successful statesman... We should never be discouraged in those daily tasks which God has ordained to the common lot of man... Let us not be trying to substitute an artificial life for the true one.”

Men Should Trying Wells Kind Mother Father Common Successful Greater Greatness Tasks Substitutes Artificial Discouraged Statesmen Truest True Ones Daily Tasks Artificial Life

Author:Joseph Fielding Smith

“In any war story, but especially a true one, it's difficult to separate what happened from what seemed to happen. What seems to happen becomes its own happening and has to be told that way. The angles of vision are skewed. When a booby trap explodes, you close your eyes and duck and float outside yourself. .. The pictures get jumbled, you tend to miss a lot. And then afterward, when you go to tell about it, there is always that surreal seemingness, which makes the story seem untrue, but which in fact represents the hard and exact truth as it seemed.”

Way War Hard Facts Stories Seems Happens Eye Difficult Vision Happened Missing Happenings Ducks Traps Angle Floats Surreal Untrue True Ones War Stories

Author:Tim O'Brien

“Friend is a very small word, A little sound we make, For one who is true, one who will do, Great deeds for friendship's sake.”

Littles Sound Sake Deeds True Ones Small Words

Book:The Bellmaker: A Tale from Redwall

Source: The Bellmaker: A Tale from Redwall

“And above all, you must be asking which door is the true one; not which pleases you best by its paint and panelling…the question should never be: ‘Do I like that kind of service?’ but ‘Are these doctrines true: Is holiness there? Does my conscience move me towards this? Is my reluctance to move to this door due to my pride, or my mere taste, or my personal dislike for this particular door-keeper?”

Should Kind Doe Moving Doors Particular Pride Please Taste Conscience Asking Mere Paint Dues Doctrine Holiness Dislike Keepers Reluctance True Ones

Book:Mere Christianity

Source: Mere Christianity

“Her hair is ridiculous," I said. "I know. That was the only thing I said about her that was true. When you say nasty things about people, you should never say the true ones, because you can't really fully and honestly take those back, you know? I mean, there are highlights. And there are streaks. And then there are skunk stripes.”

People Knows Should Mean Said Hair Honestly Ridiculous Nasty Highlights Streaks Stripes True Ones

Book:Paper Towns

Source: Paper Towns

“There is a fallacy that the powerful emotion of youth mellows with time. Not true. One learns to control and suppress it. But it doesn't lessen. It simply hides and concentrates itself in more discreet places. When one accidentally stumbles into one of these abysses, the pain is spectacular.”

Pain Powerful Emotion Youth Abyss Spectacular Fallacy Discreet True Ones Powerful Emotions

Book:Great House: A Novel

Source: Great House: A Novel

“I've heard fate talked of. It's not a word I use. I think we make our own choices. I think how we live our lives is our own doing, and we cannot fully hope on dreams and stars. But dreams and stars can guide us, perhaps. And the heart's voice is a strong one. Always is. Your heart's voice is your true voice. It is easy to ignore it, for sometimes it says what we'd rather it did not - and it is so hard to risk the things we have. But what life are we living, if we don't live by our hearts? Not a true one. And the person living it is not the true you.”

Ifs Thinking Heart Persons Sometimes Hard Use Dream Life Is Choices Strong Stars Easy Voice Our Lives Fate Risk Heard Guides Live By True You True Ones

Author:Susan Fletcher

“It's a saying they have, that a man has a false heart in his mouth for the world to see, another in his breast to show to his special friends and his family, and the real one, the true one, the secret one, which is never known to anyone except to himself alone, hidden only God knows where.”

Knows Men World Heart Real Shows Secret Known Special Mouths Breasts God Knows Real Ones True Ones Only God Knows Special Friend Shoguns

Book:Shogun: The First Novel of the Asian saga

Source: Shogun: The First Novel of the Asian saga

“it is not necessary to accept everything as true, one must only accept it as necessary.' 'A melancholy conclusion,' said K. 'It turns lying into a universal principle.”

Said Lying Turns Accepting Principles Universal Conclusion Melancholy True Ones

Book:The Penguin complete novels of Franz Kafka

Source: The Penguin complete novels of Franz Kafka

“I know you have bad news,” I say softly. “I’m ready for it.” But that’s not true. One is never ready. You just lie and say you are and hope you can take the hit on the chin without going down.”

Knows Lying Ready News Chins Bad News True Ones

Book:Aftermath

Source: Aftermath

“A man does not need to be a wizard to know truth from falsehood, not if he has eyes. You need only learn to read a face. Look at the eyes. The mouth. The muscles here, at the corners of the jaw, and here, where the neck joins the shoulders." He touched her lightly with two fingers. "Some liars blink. Some stare. Some look away. Some lick their lips. Many coer their mouths just before they tell a lie, as if to hide their deceit. Other signs may be more subtle, but they are always there. A false smile and a true one may look alike, but they are as different as dusk from dawn.”

Source: George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons

“When you say nasty things about people, you should never say the true ones, because you can't really fully and honestly take those back.”

People Should Towns Honestly Nasty True Ones

Book:Paper Towns

Source: Paper Towns

“It is not enough to recognize what is right and true. One must control the impulse to do what is wrong and easy.”

Enough Easy Impulse True Ones

Author:Andy Andrews

“I do not know why there is this difference, but I am sure that God keeps no one waiting unless He sees that it is good for him to wait. When you do enter your room, you will find that the long wait has done you some kind of good which you would not have had otherwise. But you must regard it as waiting, not as camping. You must keep on praying for light: and of course, even in the hall, you must begin trying to obey the rules which are common to the whole house. And above all you must be asking which door is the true one; not which pleases you best by its paint and paneling.”