Top 100 Quotes About Truer
#2. Science can have a purifying effect on religion, freeing it from beliefs of a pre-scientific age and helping us to a truer conception of God. At the same time, I am far from believing that science will ever give us the answers to all our questions.
Nevill Francis Mott
#3. If no set of moral ideas were truer or better than any other, there would be no sense in preferring civilised morality to savage morality.
C.S. Lewis
#4. Literature is literature. Its purpose is to challenge and disorient us, to break us down a little bit so that we are forced to rebuild ourselves. Over time, over the course of many books, we construct a deeper, truer self.
Mark Slouka
#5. All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened.
Ernest Hemingway,
#6. Oh, so poignant' said Varys. 'And yet, it is truly said that blood runs truer than oaths
George R R Martin
#7. We must, on pain of idiocy, deny from the very outset the idea that looking at is, by its own nature, intrinsically truer or better than looking along.
C.S. Lewis
#8. It is not in our drawing-rooms that we should look to judge of the intrinsic worth of any style of dress. The street-car is a truer crucible of its inherent value.
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward
#9. A lie, sometimes, can be truer than the truth, which is why fiction gets written.
Tim O'Brien
#10. [ ... ] and the love he felt at that moment, truer than all subsequent loves because it never had to survive.
Jeffrey Eugenides
#11. I have to keep working, not to arrive at finish, which arouses the admiration of fools ... I must seek completion only for the pleasure of being truer and more knowing.
Paul Cezanne
#12. It seems the deeper, truer personality of the artist only emerges in the making of decisions ... in refusing and accepting, changing and revising.
Bridget Riley
#13. The hundred possibilities a situation contains may be more significant than the occurrence of any of them, and metaphor truer in the long run than fact.
David Malouf
#14. Like all fiction, my lies are just my efforts to be truer than the truth.
Johnny Rich
#16. We're (millennials) looking for a truer Christianity, a more authentic Christianity.
Rachel Held Evans
#17. I think fiction can help us find everything. You know, I think that in fiction you can say things and in a way be truer than you can be in real life and truer than you can be in non-fiction. There's an accuracy to fiction that people don't really talk about - an emotional accuracy.
A.M. Homes
#18. Not only does silence give us a chance to understand ourselves better, to get a truer and more balanced perspective on our own lives in relation to the lives of others: silence makes us whole if we let it. Silence helps draw together the scattered and dissipated energies of a fragmented existence.
Thomas Merton
#19. Jean-Paul Sartre famously said that "hell is other people," which is true enough, but truer still is hell is other people's boyfriends
Cheryl Strayed
#20. But I had loved him. I loved him longer and truer than I had anyone in my whole life and I would probably never love anyone that way again. Which to be honest was almost a relief.
Jenny Han
#21. A story is not always a lie," said Tristan. "Some stories are truer than truth."
Truer than truth? That sounded like something liars made up to tell people who found them out.
Mette Ivie Harrison
#22. No, life has not disappointed me. On the contrary, I find it truer, more desirable and mysterious every year
ever since the day when the great liberator came to me: the idea that life could be an experiment of the seeker for knowledge
and not a duty, not a calamity, not trickery.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#23. Dare to turn life on its end, and you may find that topsy-turvy is a truer perspective than turvy-topsy.
Robert Breault
#24. Boys are stupid and girls are trouble.
Truer words were never spoken.
Michelle Hodkin
#25. It has been said that absolute power corrupts absolutely, but many it not be truer to say that to be absolutely powerful a man must first corrupt himself?
Terence Rattigan
#26. True character is revealed in the choices a human being makes under pressure - the greater the pressure, the deeper the revelation, the truer the choice to the character's essential nature.
Robert McKee
#27. Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a long affliction: absence does but hold off a friend, to make one see him the truer.
Ovid
#28. They say 6 million people see you when you act in a film; it may only be 600 in a play. But the effect on the 600 may be truer and more lasting.
Cyril Cusack
#29. For there clings to him something that often overwhelms us
memory, a recollection that whatever we're striving for now
was once closer and truer, and that its union with us was incredibly tender.
Here, everything is distance;
There, is was breath.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#30. Consciousness succumbs all too easily to unconscious influences, and these are often truer and wiser than our conscious thinking.
Carl Jung
#31. Saying it out loud, to someone else, makes it truer somehow. Real. Done.
Abby McDonald
#32. Our best theories are not only truer than common sense, they make more sense than common sense.
David Deutsch
#33. The most compelling confirmation of Marx's theory of history is late capitalist society. There is a sense in which this case is becoming truer as time passes.
Terry Eagleton
#34. I wanted to apprentice myself to the dailiness of the war's beginning phase. It's truer and more frightening that way - when you're afloat on a little dingy in the midst of it all.
Nicholson Baker
#35. Once an absurdity is accepted as truth, it will seem truer the more absurd it is shown to be.
Robert Breault
#36. Our culture says that feelings of love are the basis for actions of love. And of course that can be true. But it is truer to say that actions of love can lead consistently to feelings of love.
Timothy Keller
#37. ...I am about eight years old when I first become aware of being other--foreign, outside, separate. Because this lesson comes from my own family, it resonates deeper and truer than playground taunts ever have.
Soojung Jo
#38. What I am thinking and doing day by day is resistlessly shaping my future - a future in which there is no expiation except through my own better conduct. No one can save. No one can live my life for me. If I am wise I shall begin today to build my own truer and better world from within.
Horatio Dresser
#39. It is one of the best traits of good people that they love where they pity. And this is truer of women than of men.
Marilynne Robinson
#40. A truer barometer of intelligence is an effective, happy life lived each day and each present moment of every day.
Wayne W. Dyer
#41. the lies of the creative artist are truer than the truth of the half-sleeping ordinary man
Malcolm D. Allen
#42. This is true enough, but success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure.
Michael Korda
#43. Really, there is no infidelity, nowadays, so great as that which prays, and keeps the Sabbath, and rebuilds the churches. The sealer of the South Pacific preaches a truer doctrine.
Henry David Thoreau
#44. We had thought that we were human beings making a spiritual journey; it may be truer to say that we are spiritual beings making a human journey.
Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
#45. I may not ever be able to be certain what is absolutely True ... but I sure as heck can work to find out what isn't true! Moreover, I can improve my model of the world, by slowly, carefully finding out what is truer than what I already know.
David Brin
#46. In commercial fiction especially, everything in the story usually contributes directly to the plot The shorter the story, the truer this is
Nancy Kress
#47. Yet, over time, the conclusions that science has drawn have become ever truer to reality.
David Deutsch
#48. Instead we are tapped into an unquenchable, undepletable, inexhaustible source of wisdom, consciousness, companionship. Yeah, we lose friends. But we find friends too, in places we never thought to look. And they're better friends, truer friends. And we're better and truer to them.
Steven Pressfield
#49. There isn't a God more real and truer than the God of your knowledge.
Sorin Cerin
#50. You look too pretty to be useful."
"Truer words were never spoken.
Richelle Mead
#51. There is to truer truth attainable to man than comes of music.
Robert Browning
#52. It is often said that men are ruled by their imaginations; but it would be truer to say they are governed by the weakness of their imaginations.
Walter Bagehot
#53. They were inventing their own type of relationship, one that wasn't officially recognized by history or immortalized in poetry or song, but which felt truer and less constraining.
Hanya Yanagihara
#54. The whole purpose of the construction of The Bridge of Silver Wings was to provide a path leading to The River of Winged Dreams, or to serve as a resting place until the river's deeper and truer nature revealed itself.
Aberjhani
#55. The conversation of the mind was truer than any language, and they knew each other better than they ever could have by use of mere sight and touch.
Orson Scott Card
#56. Sometimes I think we only imagine ourselves. It's hard sometimes, coming face-to-face with your truer nature
the part that you conceal, even from yourself.
Elizabeth Kelly
#57. I'll figure out how to be truer: to let people go if they need to be let go of, and to hold on tight if that's what's called for. I will pay attention, so I can cross each human heart that comes across my path, cross it as true as I can.
Laura Pritchett
#58. Few men looked on her without becoming, in a certain fashion, her lovers. But it was the kind of love that made them not less true, but truer, to their own wives.
C.S. Lewis
#59. London Fashion Week is so different from any of the others. Compared to the strictness in New York, London seems freer from commercial constraints. Truer to the process, to street style, to a sense of humour.
Alexa Chung
#60. The blacker the night around us grew, the brighter and truer and more beautiful burned the word of God.
Corrie Ten Boom
#61. Exmoor and Dartmoor are sacred, magical places. You find a truer side of yourself there.
Dave Davies
#63. The most transient and trivial of infatuations lack any real cause, and that's even truer of feelings that go far deeper, infinitely deeper than that.
Javier Marias
#64. Fear can cause blindness, said the girl with dark glasses, Never a truer word, that could not be truer,
Jose Saramago
#65. The humble person receives praise the way a clean window takes the light of the sun. The truer and more intense the light is, the less you see of the glass.
Thomas Merton
#66. Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an absurdity any day, as to syllogistic truth. The absurdity may turn out truer.
D.H. Lawrence
#67. Of you, you're mine, and that's a gift I'll always treasure. Every one of you is a gift to me, a blend of friends and family that's stronger and truer and brighter than anything I ever imagined having. So, to all of us, together.
Nora Roberts
#68. His hands as he worked were deft and sure, but so gentle
he was being careful not to hurt me any more than he had to. I sat very still, hardly daring to move.
I was in love with him.
The knowledge swept through me, truer than anything I'd ever known. Oh, my God, I was in love with him.
L.A. Weatherly
#69. Meditation is the art of dying. Then your ego will be shocked. And it is also truer to cal I it the art of dying, because you r ego is not going to grow, your ego is going to die in meditation.
Rajneesh
#70. People commonly misquote the old Sacrinomicon and say that money is the root of all evil, which is moronic if you think about it. The real quote is that the love of money is the root of all sorts of evil. Not as pithy, but a lot truer.
Brent Weeks
#71. Our view of reality is like a chart of the sea - the truer it is, the less likely we will become lost.
Alan Watts
#72. A woman's intuition has often proved truer than a man's arrogant assumption of knowledge.
Mahatma Gandhi
#73. Life isn't always smooth sailing and sometimes you're afraid of hurting somebody's feelings, or anything, but I think that the truer you can be to yourself the more you're going to kind of open your horizons to a really beautiful relationship.
Dianna Agron
#75. Manifold subsequent experience has led to a truer appreciation and a more moderate estimate of the importance of the dependence of one living being upon another.
Richard Owen
#76. Ideological thinking becomes emancipated from the reality that we perceive with our five senses, and insists on a 'truer' reality concealed behind all perceptible things, dominating them from this place of concealment and requiring a sixth sense that enables us to become aware of it.
Hannah Arendt
#77. There's a tipping point with lies, a point where you've said something so many times that it feels truer than the truth.
Holly Black
#78. The fewer moving parts, the better." "Exactly. No truer words were ever spoken in the context of engineering.
Christian Cantrell
#79. And here and now we must insist again that fidelity, honor, and love of country demand untrammeled debate and open dissent. At no time is that truer than in the midst of a war rooted in deceit and justified by continuing deception.
John F. Kerry
#80. Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.
Wendell Phillips
#81. I love you, Dani Mega O'Malley," Dancer said against my ear as he moved inside me. "More than the world is big. Deeper than the sky is blue. Truer than the universe is vast. I love you more eternal than pi.
Karen Marie Moning
#82. Some sorts of truth are truer than others.
Jack London
#83. There ought to be a while separate language, she thought, for words that are truer than other words - for perfect, absolute truth. It was the purest fact of her life: she did not understand him, and she never would.
Anne Tyler
#84. Sometimes I believe that this less material life is our truer life, and that our vain presence on the terraqueous globe is itself the secondary or merely virtual phenomenon.
H.P. Lovecraft
#85. Now I was just a transient in the valley, a one-eyed passerby too fat for his years, and life there had the power to summon up neither the memory nor the illusion of any other, truer self. As a passerby I had a right to insist on my identity.
Kenzaburo Oe
#86. His (the writer's) standard of fidelity to the truth should be so high that his invention, out of his experience, should produce a truer account than anything factual can be.
Ernest Hemingway,
#87. Persistence may not solve everything - at least in our lifetime - but it is truer to the meaning of life for us to wait for another plowing, another seeding, another harvest, then not.
Joan D. Chittister
#88. A friend is someone who inspires, who challenges, who sends you in search of some truer sense of yourself..
Steve Lopez
#89. There is no truer truth obtainable by Man than comes of music
Robert Browning
#90. The most prominent Buddhist in the world today, I think, would likely say that this is even truer in his case: he is just a finger pointing at a finger pointing at the moon.
Anonymous
#91. It used to be believed that the parent had unlimited claims on the child and rights over him. In a truer view of the matter, we are coming to see that the rights are on the side of the child and the duties on the side of the parent.
William Graham Sumner
#92. The concept of conservation is a far truer sign of civilization than that spoilation of a continent which we once confused with progress.
Peter Matthiessen
#93. Life is a competition not with others, but with ourselves. We should seek each day to live stronger, better, truer lives; each day to master some weakness of yesterday; each day to repair a mistake; each day to surpass ourselves.
David B. Haight
#94. The facts tell us that no religious Faith releases - or ever has released at any moment in History - a higher degree of warmth, a more intense dynamism of unification than the Christianity of our own day - and the more Catholic it is, the truer my words.
Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
#95. There is nothing truer than physiognomy, taken in connection with manner.
Charles Dickens
#96. True poetry is truer than science, because it is synthetic, and seizes at once what the combination of all the sciences is able, at most, to attain as a final result.
Henri Frederic Amiel
#97. Nothing is truer in a sense than a funeral oration: It tells precisely what the dead man should have been.
Louis Gustave Vapereau
#98. There is no truer saying than "Revenge is a dish best eaten cold." It is so much sweeter for the waiting, and my only regret is that I cannot broadcast my triumph to the world.
Minette Walters
#99. Why are you so anxious to destroy in the name of a vulgar, commonplace sense of truth, this reality which comes to birth attracted and formed by the magic of the stage itself, which has indeed more right to live here than you, since it is much truer than you
if you don't mind my saying so?
Luigi Pirandello
#100. Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.
Dr. Seuss
