Truer Quotes

157 Truer quotes by 131 unique authors

In commercial fiction especially, everything in the story usually contributes directly to the plot The shorter the story, the truer this is — Nancy Kress
When love is true there is no truer occupation. — Gordon Lightfoot
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… — Alexa Chung
How fleeting are the wishes and efforts of man! how short his time! and consequently how poor will his products be, compared with those accumulated… — Charles Darwin
A woman's intuition has often proved truer than a man's arrogant assumption of knowledge. — Mahatma Gandhi
No, life has not disappointed me. On the contrary, I find it truer, more desirable and mysterious every year -- ever since the day when… — Friedrich Nietzsche
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… — Ernest Hemingway
My great longing is to make those very incorrectnesses, those deviations, remodellings, changes in reality, so that they may become, yes, lies if you like… — Vincent Van Gogh
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… — John F. Kerry
Persistence may not solve everything - at least in our lifetime - but it is truer to the meaning of life for us to wait… — Joan D. Chittister
All I do and say and think 'as a poet' is much truer and more intimate than anything I say face to face. — Selima Hill
Maidens hearts are always soft:Would that men's were truer! — William C. Bryant
Hell is a state of mind -- ye never said a truer word. And every state of mind, left to itself, every shutting up of… — C.S. Lewis
It is ill changing the creed to meet each rising temptation. The soul is truer than it seems, and refuses to be trifled with. — James Anthony Froude
All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened. — Ernest Hemingway
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… — D. H. Lawrence
Have you noticed in your past experience that your kind interpretations were almost always truer than you harsh one? — Lawrence G. Lovasik
Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage. — Wendell Phillips
There is no truer cause of unhappiness amongst men than, where naturally expecting charity and benevolence, they receive harm and vexation. — Francois Rabelais
A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside,… — Bertrand Russell
Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you! — Dr. Seuss
I say let's go back to a truer use of the word 'freedom.' Let's start with President Franklin Roosevelt's Four Freedoms: freedom of speech and… — Richard Trumka
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
All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will… — Ernest Hemingway
The history of the American Negro is the history of this strife, -- this longing to attain self-conscious manhood, to merge his double self into… — W. E. B. Du Bois

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