Top 100 True World Quotes
#1. There should be no inferiors and no superiors for true world friendship.
Carlos P. Romulo
#2. The Bible tells us, "blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven", which means heaven that is the true world will become one's own when he discards his false mind completely.
Woo Myung
#5. No doubt the world is entirely an imaginary world, but it is only once removed from the true world.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
#6. Everything is backwards now, like out there is the true world, and in here is the dream.
Sam Worthington
#7. The true world
we have abolished. What world has remained? The apparent one perhaps? But no! With the true world we have also abolished the apparent one.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#8. Your true world is your state of consciousness and awareness where your minds dwells and dances.
Debasish Mridha
#9. I am for true world peace and building a beautiful global garden for our children.
Suzy Kassem
#10. The World is a product of all the different cultures in the World. True World impact and change of direction will be done by the shifting the paradigm of every world culture.
Matthew Donnelly
#11. This world is not the sum total of God's resources
on the contrary, it is only the 'dream,' the probation, the prelude of the true world, the true life.
Janet Erskine Stuart
#12. At all costs the true world of childhood must prevail, must be restored; that world whose momentous, heroic, mysterious quality is fed on airy nothings, whose substance is so ill-fitted to withstand the brutal touch of adult inquisition.
Jean Cocteau
#13. Religious illusion must bow to scientific truth. It is in total error about the nature of the true world. Only science is not an illusion.
Sigmund Freud
#14. Once I moved to London I thought it was unbeatable. I work a lot in L.A. and love it, but would never give up London. It's a true world city, with an energy that's unique.
Bruno Tonioli
#15. A true world outlook is incompatible with a foreign imperialism, no matter how high-minded the governing country.
Wendell Willkie
#16. The flute is the true magical rod that changes all it touches in the inward world; an enchanter's wand at which the secret depths of the soul open. The inward world is the true world," said Vult; "the moonlight that shines into our hearts.
Jean Paul Friedrich Richter
#17. God too longs; and because the Absolute Life itself, which dwells in our life, and inspires these very longings, possesses the true world, and is that world.
Josiah Royce
#18. I fear no fate(for you are my fate,my sweet)i want no world(for beautiful you are my world,my true) and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you here is the deepest secret nobody knows
E. E. Cummings
#19. I wanted to tell him that all the awful things that happened in the old world were dead. And the new world, the world we lived in now, the world we were creating, that world would be better. But I didn't say it, because I wasn't sure it was true.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
#20. This world is not enough, but it will have to do. You can either hold on or let go.
Margaret Atwood
#21. An eye for an eye will only make the world bright. Sorry, Mahatma. This is the absolute and only true form of justice.
Natalya Vorobyova
#22. The real comfort is that the history of the world contains so much grief that my small griefs are edged out, and are only cinders at the borders of the fire. I am saying this again because I want it to be true.
Sebastian Barry
#23. If the poetry world celebrate its female stars at the true level of their productivity and influence, poetry would wind up being a largely female world, and the men would leave.
Eileen Myles
#24. True happiness brings more richness than all the money in the world.
Mahatma Gandhi
#25. Our world cannot be complete without you, and without hearing what you have to say. True justice cannot exist without compassion; compassion cannot exist without understanding. But no one will understand you unless you speak, and are able to speak clearly (Sister Janet to the students, page 155).
Mark Salzman
#26. The Christian conceives of his abode on Earth in no more delightful colors than the Jainist sectarian. He sees in it only a time of sad trial; he also thinks that his true country is not of this world.
Emile Durkheim
#27. Can this be true? This is the twentieth century, not the Middle Ages. Who would allow such crimes to be committed? How could the world remain silent?" And
Elie Wiesel
#28. As far back as I can remember I would escape from my humdrum world by burying myself in books
the
one true love of my life when growing up.
Jane Green
#29. According to the psychosurgeons, we act more in keeping with our true selves in a dream than in any other situation, including the throes of orgasm and the moment of our deaths. Maybe that explains why so much of what we do in the real world makes so little sense.
Richard K. Morgan
#30. When I was little, I thought everyone in the world liked to read because it was so fun. But then I realised that was not exactly true. I want other kids to read and write more all over the world, because it helps them to understand things better.
Adora Svitak
#31. The phrase, 'You must die before you die,' is found in most of the world religions. If you don't learn how to die early, you spend the rest of your life avoiding failure. When you can free your True Self, the whole spiritual life opens up.
Richard Rohr
#32. True, this world of ours is full of hatred and disbelief, but that is no reason why we should not love and why we should not believe. We must love and believe in order to empty the hatred-sea.
Sri Chinmoy
#33. Like everybody, I've had a lot of pain in my life and I'm a work in progress. You must have a true desire to see the world from a different point of view, and that comes with growing up.
Walton Goggins
#34. It's almost terrifying, how much it defies logic and reason. What else do we know about the world that isn't true?
Taylor Jenkins Reid
#35. Sometimes I get the feeling the whole world is against me, but deep down I know that's not true. Some smaller countries are neutral.
Robert Orben
#36. But if you parry individuals points - a negative and defensive enterprise - you never step back and actively imagine a world in which a different system of ideas could be true - a positive act.
Deborah Tannen
#37. The gospel, in the New Testament, is the good news that God (the world's creator) is at last becoming king and that Jesus, whom this God raised from the dead, is the world's true lord.
N. T. Wright
#38. A curious thing happened: the terrains of England began to impinge on my consciousness, altering, then effacing, the world outside the library window ... I was wrapped in a pleasurable dreaminess. I was in a better place. If true life existed elsewhere, then I had almost found it.
Garry Disher
#39. As we open the gates to Hong Kong Disneyland Resort, we know that millions of guests will open their hearts to this fantasy world where characters and stories spring to life, where dreams come true and where families will have fun together.
Jay Rasulo
#40. I had always thought that if I just did something extraordinary enough, then people would like me. But that wasn't true. You will drive away everyone by being extraordinary ... . But you, you will never learn your lesson. The world embraces ordinary. The world will never embrace you.
Leila Sales
#41. The world is a looking glass. It gives back to every man a true reflection of his own thoughts. Rule your mind or it will rule you.
Gautama Buddha
#42. Having a Christian worldview means being utterly convinced that biblical principles are not only true but also work better in the grit and grime of the real world.
Nancy Pearcey
#43. Antislavery idealists might prefer to live in some better world, which like all such places was too good to be true. The American nation in 1790, however, was a real world, laden with legacies like slavery, and therefore too true to be good.
Joseph J. Ellis
#44. That's the whole burden of this novel - the loss of those illusions that give such color to the world that you don't care whether things are true or false as long as they partake of the magical glory.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#45. I am the luckiest guy in the world. All my
dreams came true. I was in a wonderful business,
and I met great people all over the world.
Van Johnson
#46. You never knew what was coming in this world, not really. That was the true mystery, the true wonder. You just hung on and hoped for the best.
Joy Preble
#47. True godliness does not turn men out of the world, but enables them to live better in it and excites their endeavors to mend it.
William Penn
#48. Jnana teaches that the world should be given up, but not on that account to be abandoned. To be in the world but not of it-is the true test of the sannyasin.
Swami Vivekananda
#49. If I should labor through daylight and dark,
Consecrate, valorous, serious, true,
Then on the world I may blazon my mark;
And what if I don't, and what if I do?
Dorothy Parker
#50. Another argument holds that opposing Saddam Hussein would cause even greater troubles in that part of the world, and interfere with the larger war against terror. I believe the opposite is true.
Dick Cheney
#51. We are deeply saddened to hear about the passing of Jonathan Hardy. The clever wit and joy he brought to his performance of Rygel was a true gift to the world of Farscape. My sincerest condolences go out to Jonathan's family and to his many fans around the world.
Brian Henson
#52. The Ironman World Championship is the hardest race I've competed in. Not only do the elements (heat, wind, humidity) make it grueling, but the quality of the field makes it a true test.
Timothy O'Donnell
#53. The 'lords of the earth' are those who are doing their Will. It does not necessarily mean people with coronets and automobiles; there are plenty of such people who are the most sorrowful slaves in the world. The sole test of one's lordship is to know what one's true Will is, and to do it.
Aleister Crowley
#54. What is there in the world NOT to love? Other than enemies, drugs, diseases, traffic, morning alarms, people snoring, dishes, folding fitted sheet, YouTube ads, group texts you don't want to be a part of, taxes, unknown callers ...
Me
#55. Is it true, the world works hard and we play? Is that why we're hated so much?
Ray Bradbury
#56. People want to get immersed and lost in a world. They want to lean in and figure it out, and that's true of both of these shows. You don't know quite what it is, and that's great.
Miles Millar
#57. The world needs a true leader, an Obama that promotes peace and understanding in the world.
Hugo Chavez
#58. True leaders serve the people. They have no power but what we lend, and what I give in good faith can be taken away." "The wealthy own my world." "Then it is broken.
Penelope Fletcher
#59. My life is about politics, a lot of about music, and a lot about things other than acting. I like traveling the world. But, what makes me want to stay in this business and keep doing this are movies when it's a true labor of love.
Olivia Wilde
#60. Because if it's really true that there's no order, then anything can happen to us. Anything at all. There's no real natural law, no right and wrong that's immutable, and the world is suddenly a savage place where any number of things can go wrong.
Anne Rice
#61. Never expect justice in this world. That is not part of God's plan. Everybody thinks that if they don't get it, they're some kind of odd man out. And it's not true. Nobody gets justice - people just get good luck or bad luck.
Orson Welles
#62. True patriotism, Jack believed, would have been for his fellow Americans to look inward after 9/11 and accept a little blame, admit the attacks had happened, in part, because of who they were in the world, not in spite of it.
Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney
#63. I've worked for over 11 years in the Muslim world, and the one thing that I feel like I've learned - who's to say if it's true or not true, it's just my experience - is that men don't like to see really strong, aggressive women in that area of the world.
Lynsey Addario
#64. If he says something that isn't true, he is bringing uncertainty into the world. He is blinding the people around him to a small part of the truth - and every part of the truth is important. You can't complete a jigsaw if one of its pieces has been swapped out for a piece of a different jigsaw.
M.R. Carey
#65. Lucian Freud's career affirms that the only thing an artist can do is remain true to whatever vision, (lack of) talent, or ideas that happened to pick them in order to be made known to the world.
Jerry Saltz
#66. I've come to realize that the biggest problem anywhere in the world is that people's perceptions of reality are compulsively filtered through the screening mesh of what they want, and do not want, to be true.
Travis Walton
#67. People stay together and stay true only as long as they both want to. And all the promises in the world don't change the length of time. Nothing comes with a guarantee.
Ann Aguirre
#68. I think it's a problem that people are considered immoral if they're not religious. That's just not true ... If you do something for a religious reason, you do it because you'll be rewarded in an afterlife or in this world. That's not quite as good as something you do for purely generous reasons.
Lisa Randall
#69. These deserters were our undoing. I shall have a good deal more to say about them before I finally lay down my pen, and I shall not hesitate to call them by their true name, the name with which they will be for ever branded before all the nations of the world.
Christiaan Rudolf De Wet
#70. People intrinsically know there are secrets being held from us. Look at WikiLeaks: There are secrets that are really true to the world.
Bob Weinstein
#71. I find acting in contact lenses is bizarre to me, because there's just a giant filter between you and the world. I know it sounds painfully, ridiculously obvious, but it's true. You're just so detached.
Matthew Rhys
#72. Rules are the offspring of fear. If everyone trusted and followed their true inner spirit, the world would function flawlessly.
Alan Cohen
#73. It's true, we tend to write about the same thing over and over again because this is our trauma. If I had been in World War II, I might have been writing about D-Day over and over again.
Anne Roiphe
#74. It's also true that sometimes people felt things and, because there was no word for them, they went unmentioned. The oldest emotion in the world may be that of being moved; but to describe it - just to name it - must have been like trying to catch something invisible. (pg 107)
Nicole Krauss
#76. Mindfulness and fearless presence bring true protection. When we meet the world with recognition, acceptance, investigation, and non-identification, we discover that wherever we are, freedom is possible, just as the rain falls on and nurtures all things equally.
Jack Kornfield
#77. As you watch the world crumble, try taking your Armageddon with this sprinkling of irony: Over the last three decades, business has got virtually everything it wanted, and its doomsday scenario from the 1970s has come true because of it.
Thomas Frank
#78. If we do not show love to one another, the world has a right to question whether Christianity is true.
Francis Schaeffer
#79. They say that every snowflake is different. If that were true, how could the world go on? How could we ever get up off our knees? How could we ever recover from the wonder of it?
Jeanette Winterson
#80. Come, see the true flowers of this pained world.
Matsuo Basho
#81. My captive. My wife. My entire world.
I will love her to the end of time, and I will never, ever let her go.
Anna Zaires
#82. What we do really affects the world. Most of us think we can't do anything, but it really isn't true.
Yoko Ono
#83. She that would raise a noble love must find Ways to beget a passion for her mind; She must be that which she to the world would seem, For all true love is grounded on esteem: Plainness and truth gain more a generous heart Than all the crooked subtleties of art.
Theresa Villiers
#84. Interdependent Thinking is a true system view of the world.
Pearl Zhu
#85. Without God, all we do in life, no matter how great or significant, will pass and is useless. Only the things with Jesus at the center will bring true peace and happiness to both mankind and the world at large.
Leon Lutje
#86. Prince.. a true artist in every sense of the world.Gone way too soon.
Quincy Jones
#87. Whatever We Hold in Thought Comes True in Our Experience; Like Attracts Like; we experiment with the Law of Changing Appearances, to make our outer world reflect our inner.
Richard Bach
#88. America's been living on borrowed time all these years ... Playing the world's whore, wallowing in our greed. Now we're going to pay the price.
Wally Lamb
#89. Later he decided the specifics were not important, that the true lesson of accidents is not the how or the why, but the taken-for-granted world they exile you from.
Colson Whitehead
#90. My world had gone from normal to magical in only a few days. Everything I'd once believed to be true had been turned upside down, and even though it was crazy and possibly dangerous, I loved every second of it.
Michelle Madow
#91. The true threat to the world today comes from the mad ambitions of states and capitalists bent on destroying non-modern cultures. It is the so-called developed countries that plunder the planet's resources without showing the least concern for consequences they are incapable of foreseeing.
Rene Girard
#92. My true place in the world, it turned out, was somewhere beyond myself, and if that place was inside me, it was also unlocatable. This was the tiny hole between self and not-self, and for the first time in my life I saw this nowhere as the exact center of the world.
Paul Auster
#93. By your choice dwell you now in the world which you have created. What you hold in your heart shall be true, and what you most admire, that shall you become.
Richard Bach
#94. [Some scientific] experiments ... tell us that what we consider the objective world depends in some measure on our own conscious processes. There is no fixed eternal reality ... ... ... true understanding is not to be achieved with the rational mind.
Larry Dossey
#95. There is little pleasure in the world that is true and sincere beside the pleasure of doing our duty and doing good.
John Tillotson
#96. If we make ourselves worthy of America's ideals, if we do not forget that our nation was founded on the premise that all men are creatures of God's making, the world will come to know that it is free men who carry forward the true promise of human progress and dignity.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#97. The true bureaucrat is a man of really remarkable talents. He writes a kind of English that is unknown elsewhere in the world, and an almost infinite capacity for forming complicated and unworkable rules.
H.L. Mencken
#98. If i thought i was replying to someone who would every return to the world, this flame would cease it's flickering. But since no one has returned from these depths alive, if what I've heard is true, I will answer you without fear of infamy.
Dante Alighieri
#99. In essence I find that the foundation of modern conservatism is driven by a clinging to God in fear of the world, whereas the foundation of modern liberalism is a clinging to the world in fear of God; albeit, the true foundation should be one's clinging to God in fear of God.
Criss Jami
#100. I find the remark, "Tis distance lends enchantment to the view" is no less true of the political than of the natural world.
Franklin Pierce
