Strange But True Quotes

• For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.

  Lord Byron

  Funny, Truth, Fiction

  Don Juan canto 14, st. 101 (1823) See Chesterton 6; Twain 93

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• It is strange, but true, that the most important turning-points of life often come at the most unexpected times and in the most unexpected ways.

  Napoleon Hill

  Important, Way, Unexpected

  Napoleon Hill (2008). “The Law of Success: The Master Wealth-Builder's Complete and Original Lesson Plan forAchieving Your Dreams”, p.143, Penguin

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• Tis strange,-but true; for truth is always strange; Stranger than fiction: if it could be told, How much would novels gain by the exchange! How differently the world would men behold!

  Lord Byron

  Men, Fiction, World

  LORD BYRON (1875). “DON JUAN”, p.303

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• Strange but true: those who have loved God most have loved men least.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Men, Atheism, Strange

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• It is strange but true that although we may have learned all sorts of important facts while raising our own children, when we become grandparents we still tend to forget a whole lot of things we knew.

  Eda LeShan

  Children, Grandparent, Important

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• As you love yourself, so shall you love others. Strange but true, with no exceptions.

  Harry Stack Sullivan

  Love You, Strange, Exception

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• Here was a strange but true fact: The closer you were to the market, the harder it was to perceive its folly.

  Michael Lewis

  Facts, Strange, True Fact

  Michael Lewis (2015). “The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine (movie tie-in)”, p.105, W. W. Norton & Company

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