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Truth Quotes by Jean Cocteau
- The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
- The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If…
- History is a combination of reality and lies. The reality of History becomes a lie. The unreality of the fable becomes the truth.
- There are truths which one can only say after having won the right to say them.
- I've always preferred mythology to history. History is truth that becomes an illusion. Mythology is an illusion that becomes reality.
- I am a lie who always speaks the truth.
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- Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth. — Aristotle
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold. — Aristotle
- Truth sits upon the lips of dying men. — Matthew Arnold
- Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist. — Mary Kay Ash
- People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do. — Isaac Asimov
- A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value. — Isaac Asimov