Essential Truths Quotes

#1. He had not actually known what to expect in coming here tonight, much less that it would reveal to him two essential truths of life: that men do become wolves and that if you have the privilege to be witness to such a transformation it is the most natural and right thing you have ever seen.

Brian McGreevy

#2. The commandment to refrain from placing blame on our parents, deeply imprinted in us by our upbringing, skillfully performs the function of hiding essential truths from us.

Alice Miller

#3. First love is stripping down everything to essential truths, setting aside your fears and doubts and seeing who you are in someone else's eyes. In first love you first find yourself.

Chloe Thurlow

#4. Kenney knows two essential truths about melodrama: First that it is most powerful when combined with irony and understatement; and second that it is a salient feature of modern life.

Stefan Kanfer

#5. Essential truths gained by loss in translation. The essence of beauty not perfection, but the doomed aspiration.

Brian McGreevy

#6. We believe that every relationship is unique unto itself, and thus even an attempt to think in types and forms is not going to express the essential truths of what happens when we love people.

Dossie Easton

#7. Expressing doubt is how we begin a journey to discover essential truths.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#8. One of the most essential truths to recognize is the fact that the only limits on what we can achieve in life are those we create and place on ourselves. Circumstances are the creation of people and not the other way around.

Robin S. Sharma

#9. As a result of all his education, from everything he hears and sees around him, the child absorbs such a lot of lies and foolish nonsense, mixed in with essential truths, that the first duty of the adolescent who wants to be a healthy man is to disgorge it all.

Romain Rolland

#10. Apostasy occurs when a church leaves its historic moorings, abandons its historic confessional position, and degenerates into a state where either essential Christian truths are blatantly denied or the denial of such truths is widely tolerated.

R.C. Sproul

#11. I don't suppose a writing man ever really gets rid of his old crocus-yellow neckties. Sooner or later, I think, they show up in his prose, and there isn't a hell of a lot he can do about it.

J.D. Salinger

#12. When Socialism comes, it may be in such a form that we won't like it.

William Morris

#13. They thought it was essential to remain skeptical of all inherited truths, the idea being that the individual must find his own answer to every question.

Jostein Gaarder

#14. When I write - I always write on my own - I demo those songs on a four-track.

PJ Harvey

#15. No new truths await discovery; everything has been given already. But it has all been scattered abroad and dispersed, misrepresented by analysis, dulled by routine repetition. The essential words have been prostituted. We must recover the vital meaning of these ideas.

Isha Schwaller De Lubicz

#16. I'm beginning to feel that no author has the right to tear his characters apart if he doesn't know how, or feel that he knows how (poor sucker) to put them together again. I'm tired - my God, so tired - of leaving them all broken on the page with just 'The End' written underneath.

J.D. Salinger

#17. Jesus being the embodiment of the Truth thus makes everything He says 'essential' and Eternally valid".

~R. Alan Woods [2012]

R. Alan Woods

#18. Any time you have loose ballots, you have to worry about shenanigans. It's a shame such a hard-fought election has to come down to something like this.

David Axelrod

#19. The universe required everything to be observed, lest it cease to exist.

Terry Pratchett

#20. One of the most essential yet the hardest truths that I have had to learn is that every person should be his own hardest task-master.

Napoleon Hill

#21. People needed proof that Utopia was nothing more than a theory, an illusion read in fictional stories.

Soroosh Shahrivar

#22. Lies can make harsh truths less painful. But I believe pain is essential for growth.

Morgan Rhodes

#23. The essential thing is not that there be many truths in a work, but that no truth be abused.

Joseph Joubert

#24. Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.

Margaret Mead

#25. New Zealand's Daniel Vettori is a very good bowler.

Sachin Tendulkar

#26. Mere mental assimilation of these truths cannot withstand temptation, however. The revelation of God is positively essential. The Spirit of God must reveal how we are in Christ and how we are united with Him in one.

Watchman Nee

#27. Find time to admire and appreciate the glittering lights on snowflakes.

Debasish Mridha