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Truth Quotes by Mason Cooley

38 Truth quotes by Mason Cooley

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If you appreciate sharp humor with a philosophical edge, these 38 Cooley one‑liners deliver clever twists on honesty that both entertain and provoke thought.

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Malice is always authentic and sincere.

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Truth-telling frightens me. Lying confuses me.

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It is hard to tell truth, and hard not to.

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A blunt statement can be as false as any other.

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Maxims are sharp-edged half-truths.

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Truth usually stammers at first.

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Sincerity: willingness to spend one's own money.

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Disillusionment is not truth.

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The grandeur of a philosophy does not certify its truth.

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Writers tell more truths, and more lies, than most.

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Don't tell me it's raining when you're peeing on me!

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We sometimes find truth, but more often it finds us.

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Universal truths have become an embarrassment, but they won't quite go away.

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After I have said what is required by my vanity and my morality, I may find a moment for Truth.

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Birth dates and bathroom scales tell more truth than I want to know.

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In an aphorism, aptness counts for more than truth.

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I read less and less. I have not forgiven books for their failure to tell me the truth and make me happy.

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In the labyrinth of a difficult text, we find unmarked forks in the path, detours, blind alleys, loops that deliver us back…

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Sincerity guarantees nothing but itself.

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Facts do not give advice.

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Irony regards every simple truth as a challenge.

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The truths I shun follow me, mumbling.

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The truth usually has a slightly ugly look.

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Truth can remain silent. Lies must be spoken.

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Truth is a necessary phantom.

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Keep your lies short and simple.

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I cling to depression, thinking it a form of truth.

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Profundity often goes past the issue to some deep but useless truth.

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Errors are more numerous than truths, but fortunately too divided among themselves to take power.

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Lies save trouble now, but may return in thunder and lightning.

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The power of lying is much less than the power of what is not to be discussed.

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I am plain-speaking out of both sides of my mouth.

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Lying just for the fun of it is either art or pathology.

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The horizon is more than a convention of landscape painting, less than truth.

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Only the broken-hearted know the truth about love.

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If you corner me, you are going to hear some unwelcome truths.

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Realism: the wealth of detail guarantees the truth of the tale.

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Theory now: concern for truth must not hobble our discussion.

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Nostalgia keeps dissolving the ironic narratives in which I have contained my past.

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The modernist writers found despair inspirational.

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Even the most abject have a sense of superiority based on powerful though undefined merits.

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Money comes to life as it is spent.

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Even the most fickle are faithful to a few bad habits.

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Rage is exciting, but leaves me confused and exhausted.

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Literary tradition is full of lies about poverty-the jolly beggar, the poor but happy milkmaid, the wholesome diet of porridge, etc.

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Experience teaches us, but we scarcely know what.

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The body has a mind of its own.

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In retirement, I look for days off from my days off. Mason Cooley

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My intentions go one way, my desires another. Thus I feel both self-indulgent and deprived.

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The Puritan sours his pleasures by disguising them as duties.

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