Truth Quotes
What is truth? These quotes explore honesty, reality, and the courage it takes to face both.
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"I suddenly realized what I had been runnin around doing all my life - I was looking for it."Jack Kerouac
"I do not care if all the world conspire to say you are wrong"e.e. cummings
"The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it"e.e. cummings
"There is no other world. This is the only one."Hart Crane
"Truth will always find its way to light."Hart Crane
"Truth is beauty in its purest form."Hart Crane
"There is no hiding place in a world where we are all connected."Kurt Vonnegut
"Something or somebody has poisoned the water, or perhaps it was always poisoned."Kurt Vonnegut
"The most destructive thing one can do is to tell yourself a lie and believe it."Kurt Vonnegut
"The world's full of phonies, and I'm sick of it."J.D. Salinger
"What I mean is, if I ever die, and they find out I'm a phony, I hope somebody has the decency to just quietly kill me or something."J.D. Salinger
"It really does kill me when somebody says something phony."J.D. Salinger
"The truth often hides in the most obvious place, unnoticed."William Carlos Williams
"Who denies long hair is as real as short hair denies the truth"Allen Ginsberg
"Truth is stranger and more beautiful than fiction"Allen Ginsberg
"Realism is a corruption of reality."Wallace Stevens
"In the sum of the parts, there are only the parts."Wallace Stevens
"The search for reality is as momentous as the search for God."Wallace Stevens
"The real is only a base."Wallace Stevens
"The human is in hiding."Wallace Stevens
"The degree of intensity that makes a thing true."Wallace Stevens
"The essential alone is real."Wallace Stevens
"The essential is the invisible."Wallace Stevens
"Belief and respect are two precious things in life, but you have to earn them."Jack Kerouac
"Nothing matters but the truth of the moment we're in."Jack Kerouac
"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."Jack Kerouac
"I don't believe in the words of men, I believe in the words of children."Jack Kerouac
"I was not trying to be profound; I was trying to be honest."Jack Kerouac
"I would rather be authentic and disliked than false and loved."Jack Kerouac
"I dislike Adam, but God likes him: absence of hypocrisy is the hardest test of all."Marianne Moore