True Words Quotes

• The course of true love never did run smooth.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Life, Summer

  'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 1, sc. 1, l. 132

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• The unexamined life is not worth living.

  Socrates

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  In Plato 'Apology' 38a

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• Some people have the coldest smiles, but have the tenderest hearts. And many have the most tender smiles, but carry the coldest hearts. You cannot judge a man by his smile, but you CAN judge a man by his heart. The smallest actions reveal the most about a hearts true color, so pay attention to them. Actions are the true words of the heart.

  Suzy Kassem

  Heart, Men, Color

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

  Laozi

  Knowledge, Taoism

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• It is a good and safe rule to sojourn in every place as if you meant to spend your life there, never omitting an opportunity of doing a kindness, or speaking a true word, or making a friend.

  John Ruskin

  Inspirational, Kindness, Opportunity

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• Within the word we find two dimensions-reflection and action. If one is sacrificed even in part, the other immediately suffers. To speak a true word is to transform the world.

  Paulo Freire

  Reflection, Two, Suffering

  Paulo Freire (2014). “Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition”, p.63, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• To speak a true word is to transform the world.

  Paulo Freire

  World, Speak, Praxis

  Paulo Freire (2014). “Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition”, p.63, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• There is no true word that is not at the same time a praxis. Thus, to speak a true word is to transform the world.

  Paulo Freire

  World, Speak, Praxis

  Paulo Freire, Elizabeth Galligan, Romelia Hurtado de Vivas (2008). “Pioneers in Education: Essays in Honor of Paulo Freire”, p.110, Nova Publishers

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• True words seem false.

  Laozi

  Knowledge, Taoism, Seems

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• Nothing in the world is as soft and yielding as water. Yet for dissolving the hard and inflexible, nothing can surpass it. The soft overcomes the hard; the gentle overcomes the rigid. Everyone knows this is true, but few can put it into practice. Therefore the Master remains serene in the midst of sorrow. Evil cannot enter his heart. Because he has given up helping, he is people's greatest help. True words seem paradoxical.

  Laozi

  Strength, Truth, Heart

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• It is Christ Himself, not the Bible, who is the true Word of God. The Bible, read in the right spirit and with the guidance of good teachers, will bring us to Him.

  C. S. Lewis

  Teacher, Taken, Use

  "Letters of C. S. Lewis" by C. S. Lewis, (p. 247), 1966.

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• If God has given us Himself, if He abides in us and we in Him, according to His own true words, then what will He not give me, what will He spare for me, of what will He deprive me, how can He forsake me? 'The Lord is my shepherd: therefore I lack nothing' (Ps. 23:1).

  John of Kronstadt

  Christian, Giving, Shepherds

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• Writing is like praying, because you stop all other activities, descend into silence, and listen patiently to the depths of your soul, waiting for true words to come. When they do, you thank God because you know the words are a gift, and you write them down as honestly and cleanly as you can.

  Helen Prejean

  Writing, Silence, Waiting

  Helen Prejean (2006). “The Death of Innocents: An Eyewitness Account of Wrongful Executions”, p.195, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

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• People say sticks and stones may break your bones, but names can never hurt you, but that's not true. Words can hurt. They hurt me. Things were said to me that I still haven't forgotten.

  Demi Lovato

  Hurt, Hate, Names

  "Demi Lovato drops tour for 'emotional and physical' treatment" By Alan Duke, www.cnn.com. November 4, 2010.

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• The true word of God is written in our heart.

  KRS-One

  Heart, Word Of God, Written

  Song: Ain't Ready, Album: Spiritual Minded

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• Beautiful. True. Words to remind yourself, words to live by.

  Dianna Agron

  Beautiful, Words To Live By, Live By

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• My dad taught me true words you have to use in every relationship. Yes, baby.

  Star Jones

  Baby, Dad, Father

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• She [my mother] said that if I listened to her, later I would know what she knew: where true words came from, always from up high, above everything else. And if I didn't listen to her, she said my ear would bend too easily to other people, all saying words that had no lasting meaning, because they came from the bottom of their hearts, where their own desires lived, a place where I could not belong.

  Amy Tan

  Mother, Heart, People

  Amy Tan (2006). “The Joy Luck Club”, p.185, Penguin

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• Many true words are spoken in jest.

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  Humor, Jest

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• People may claim to hate puns, but most true word lovers have groaned to like them.

  Jay Heinrichs

  Hate, People, May

  Jay Heinrichs (2011). “Word Hero: A Fiendishly Clever Guide to Crafting the Lines that Get Laughs, Go Viral, and Live Forever”, p.72, Three Rivers Press

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• Many a true word is spoken in jest

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Jest

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

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• The true word leads; the untrue misleads.

  Franz Kafka

  Untrue, Mislead

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• I got into songwriting because I'm not very good at communicating sometimes, just my true words, so music was always my way of expressing myself and being able to put things into lyrics that I couldn't say necessarily in my everyday life.

  LIZ

  Everyday, Able, Way

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• 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

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

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• Nevertheless, we are led to believe that true words can communicate more than truth, they communicate what life is all about, that it's threatened, when it's threatened, when it's in danger, then it becomes a curse or a blessing.

  Elie Wiesel

  Believe, Blessing, Life Is

  Source: www.nobelprize.org

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