Truth Quotes

What is truth? These quotes explore honesty, reality, and the courage it takes to face both.

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"These things are not baubles."
Marianne Moore
"Precision is a virtue we are not accustomed to expect in conversation."
Marianne Moore
"One cannot help respecting the person who is truthful."
Marianne Moore
"The function of precision is to delight us."
Marianne Moore
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"The bridge between seeing and being seen is where truth lives."
Hart Crane
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"Truth wears many faces; the seeker must look carefully."
Hart Crane
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"Truth is like a pearl; it must be found in darkness."
Hilda Doolittle
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"Truth cannot be destroyed."
Hilda Doolittle
"The truth is, we know so little about life, we don't really know what the good news and the bad news is."
Kurt Vonnegut
"All this happened, more or less."
Kurt Vonnegut
"This is a terrible world we live in."
Kurt Vonnegut
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"Truth is whatever is perceived at any given moment to be true."
William Carlos Williams
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"The voice of truth is quiet but unmistakable."
William Carlos Williams
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"Let fiery moments come if they must come only to burn out my falsities."
Hart Crane
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"The heart knows truths that the mind cannot articulate."
Hart Crane
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"The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off."
Allen Ginsberg
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"Truth cannot be hidden forever."
Hilda Doolittle
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"Authenticity is the rarest and most precious gift."
Hilda Doolittle
"The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence."
Marianne Moore
"Inaccuracy is very prevalent but should be avoided."
Marianne Moore
"We must be literal minded."
Marianne Moore
"Denial is not the same as invisibility."
Marianne Moore
"Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake."
Wallace Stevens
"The search for reality is as momentous as the search for God."
Wallace Stevens
"Reality is only an exact description of the truth we already feel."
Wallace Stevens
"We seek not truth but the appearance of truth."
Wallace Stevens
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"Desire has many forms; truth has only one."
Jack Kerouac
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"Truth tastes bitter because lies were so sweet."
Jack Kerouac
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"Truth is stranger than fiction."
Amy Lowell
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"Language is a tool for discovering truth, not just expressing it."
William Carlos Williams