Top 25 Truer Quotes

If there be any truer measure of a man than by what he does, it must be by what he gives.

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.

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 the substances that cast the shadows.

I think there’s no truer and more pure purpose than to be able to refine your art to a point where you feel it’s as possible as it can be.

I don’t think that the spoken words solve everything. Sometimes silence delivers truer feelings while the words can distort the meaning in some situations.

Our best theories are not only truer than common sense, they make more sense than common sense.

It is truer to say that martyrs create faith more than faith creates martyrs.

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.

You cannot please all of the people all of the time, and that is truer in the arts than anywhere else.

Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!

I’m becoming more of a novelist as I get older. The novel just seems the truer form. There’s less artifice involved.

Have you noticed in your past experience that your kind interpretations were almost always truer than you harsh one?

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.

Exmoor and Dartmoor are sacred, magical places. You find a truer side of yourself there.

I’ve always thought that the level of homelessness in society is likely to be a truer measure of how civilised we are then almost any other factor.

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.

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 it. The people who wear our uniform and carry our rifles into combat are our kids, and our job is to support them, because they’re protecting us.

I’m not afraid of wanting money at all. Money will give me more power to do things that are truer to my spirit than what I’m already doing.

I think you can be much truer to real emotions and reality by creating something that on the surface seems artificial but, by then putting everything together in the end, is much more impactful than trying to use realism in every individual element of the film.

Rather than being a ‘perversion’ of Islam, it is truer to say that the version of Islam espoused by ISIS, while undoubtedly the worst possible interpretation of Islam, and for Muslims and non-Muslims everywhere obviously the most destructive version of Islam, is nevertheless a plausible interpretation of Islam.

Even the Impressionists, the most innovative artists of their time, sought to paint realistically. They believed that their freer way of portraying the visible world was truer to life than the literal realism of the ‘salon painters’ who dominated French art throughout the 19th century.

Suffering isn’t a moral endowment. People don’t always do well under duress, and it seemed to me to be truer to a fellow in that situation to make him angry.

There is no truer cause of unhappiness amongst men than, where naturally expecting charity and benevolence, they receive harm and vexation.

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 expression, freedom of worship, freedom from want and freedom from fear. I would add the freedom to bargain collectively. Those freedoms are under attack today.

I think the saying that diamonds are a girl’s best friend can’t be truer. Which girl doesn’t love diamonds?