A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true.
Demosthenes
After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.
H. G. Wells
All stereotypes turn out to be true. This is a horrifying thing about life. All those things you fought against as a youth: you begin to realize they're stereotypes because they're true.
David Cronenberg
Although I loved Liza as a little girl, it would be true to say I really didn't know her.
Lorna Luft
America is so vast that almost everything said about it is likely to be true, and the opposite is probably equally true.
James T. Farrell
Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child, cannot be true.
Thomas Paine
Back then I didn't think a woman like that, or a relationship like that, could exist with complete freedom and no jealousy or possessiveness. I thought it sounded too good to be true and I was certainly convinced it wasn't the life for me!
Sylvia Kristel
Baloney is flattery laid on so thick it cannot be true, and blarney is flattery so thin we love it.
Fulton J. Sheen
Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many.
Baruch Spinoza
Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
Henry David Thoreau
Be true to yourself, and, um, don't worry about some large companies' quarterly profit index.
Natalie Merchant
Before I'm a writer, I'm definitely a reader and when I read memoir, I really want it to be true.
Augusten Burroughs
Bottom up thinkers try to start from experience and move from experience to understanding. They don't start with certain general principles they think beforehand are likely to be true; they just hope to find out what reality is like.
John Polkinghorne
But I think it would be irresponsible for me not to say what I really believe in my heart to be true - that there are some serious inequities that we face as women and that we can work to address these inequities.
Anita Hill
But if it not be true, the myth itself requires to be explained, and every principle of philosophy and common sense demand that the explanation be sought, not in arbitrary allegorical categories, but in the actual facts of ritual or religious custom to which the myth attaches.
William Robertson Smith
But to have a friend, and to be true under any and all trials, is the mark of a man!
Charles Eastman
But we both came to the decision that the powerful thing is to go into your fear, walk in there with it, don't walk away from it, and to try to be true to it.
Lee Tergesen
Dare to be true. Nothing can need a lie: a fault which needs it most, grows two thereby.
George Herbert
Don't let people treat you like you're stupid. If it sounds too good to be true, it is.
Sinbad
Don't you wish you had a job like mine? All you have to do is think up a certain number of words! Plus, you can repeat words! And they don't even have to be true!
Dave Barry
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