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True Words Quotes

True words are not pleasing. Pleasing words are not true.

True words are not pleasing. Pleasing words are not true.

Laozi
Knowledge, Taoism, True Words

Many a true word hath been spoken in jest.

William Shakespeare
Jest, True Words

Sincere words are not fine; fine words are not sincere. Those who are skilled (in the Tao) do not dispute (about it); the disputatious are not skilled in it. Those who know (the Tao) are not extensively learned; the extensively learned do not know it.

Laozi
Fancy, Debate, True Words
Colin Bradshaw-Jones, Laozi, Lao Tzu (2006). “The Tao Te Ching, Eighty-one Maxims from the Father of Taoism”, p.107, Lulu.com

The true word of God is written in our heart.

KRS-One
Heart, Word Of God, True Words
Song: Ain't Ready, Album: Spiritual Minded

There's many a true word spoken in jest.

James Joyce
Truth, Jest, True Words
James Joyce, Mark Gaipa, Sean Latham, Robert Scholes (2015). “The Little Review "Ulysses"”, p.292, Yale University Press

Many a true word is spoken in jest

Geoffrey Chaucer
Jest, True Words
Geoffrey Chaucer (2016). “The Reeve's Prologue and Tale”, p.108, Cambridge University Press

The true word leads; the untrue misleads.

Franz Kafka
True Words, Untrue, Mislead

True words seem false.

Laozi
Knowledge, Taoism, True Words

Many true words are spoken in jest.

Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
Humor, Jest, True Words

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