Truer Quotes

157 quotes by 132 authors

A myth is far truer than a history, for a history only gives a story of the shadows, whereas a myth gives a story of… — Annie Besant
The U.S. Military is us. There is no truer representation of a country than the people that it sends into the field to fight for… — Tom Clancy
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… — Michael Korda
Where all your rights become only an accumulated wrong; where men must beg with bated breath for leave to subsist in their own land, to… — Roger Casement
Consciousness succumbs all too easily to unconscious influences, and these are often truer and wiser than our conscious thinking. — Carl Jung
It is possible that the scrupulously honest man may not grow rich so fast as the unscrupulous and dishonest one; but the success will be… — Samuel Smiles
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,… — Henri Frederic Amiel
I have been scientifically studying the traits and dispositions of the "lower animals" (so-called,) and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions of man. I… — Mark Twain
Experience is a truer guide than the words of others. — Leonardo da Vinci
Enlightenment is choicelessness. But don`t misunderstand me. Before that, you will have to move very cautiously, choosing the right against the wrong, choosing the truer… — Rajneesh
I used to think that prayer should have the first place and teaching the second. I now feel it would be truer to give prayer… — James O. Fraser
Great suffering brings with it the power of great endurance. When sorrow is deepest all the forces of patience and courage are banded together to… — Rabindranath Tagore
Acquisition of [higher] knowledge is not the end, but the means to the end; the end consists of the attainment, thanks to this knowledge of… — Rudolf Steiner
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,… — William Graham Sumner
Truth maybe stranger than fiction, but fiction is truer. — Frederic Raphael
...the truer measure of sacrifice isn't so much what one gives to sacrifice as what one sacrifices to give. Faith isn't tested so much when… — Lynn G. Robbins
Silence is something more than just a pause; it is that enchanted place where space is cleared and time is stayed and the horizon itself… — Pico Iyer
There is nothing truer than myth: history, in its attempt to realize myth, distorts it, stops halfway; when history claims to have succeeded, this is… — Eugene Ionesco
At times your unconsciousness is truer than your conscious mind — Jenny Holzer
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… — Walter Bagehot

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