Truth Quotes

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

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"Truth needs no defense."
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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"We are all apt to believe what the world believes about us."
Mary Wilkins Freeman
M
"In every concealment there is also a disclosure."
Mary Wilkins Freeman
M
"Integrity is the foundation of character."
Mary Wilkins Freeman
M
"Truth, however difficult, is always better than comfortable lies."
Mary Wilkins Freeman
"If you tell the truth you do not have to remember anything."
Fannie Hurst
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics."
Fannie Hurst
"The greatest betrayal is the one we inflict upon ourselves."
Fannie Hurst
"The truth will set you free, but first it will make you uncomfortable."
Fannie Hurst
"Omissions are not accidents."
Marianne Moore
"Integrity is everything unless it is nothing."
Marianne Moore
"Truthfulness is the foundation of all that is good."
Marianne Moore
"The mind cannot rest in contradiction if it is honest."
Marianne Moore
"Truth often wears the mask of paradox."
Marianne Moore
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"Truth is like a lion; it doesn't need defending."
Edna St. Vincent Millay
C
"We must distinguish between what is natural and what is merely traditional."
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
A
"Achievement without authenticity is merely hollow performance."
Amy Lowell
"Truth is often harder to speak than lies, yet infinitely more liberating."
Fannie Hurst
"Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake."
Wallace Stevens
"Let be be finale of seem."
Wallace Stevens
"The fiction that results from feeling is as much a fact as anything that can be demonstrated."
Wallace Stevens
O
"A man is not more honest because he wears a star on his breast."
O. Henry
O
"Conscience is what hurts when everything else feels good."
O. Henry
O
"Any man who wants to hear the truth ought to keep his ears open."
O. Henry
O
"The only way to keep a secret is to forget it."
O. Henry
O
"The truth is like a lion, let it loose, it will defend itself."
O. Henry
O
"There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact."
O. Henry
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"The truth, however difficult, is always preferable to a comforting lie."
Kate Chopin
K
"Truth cannot be hidden forever; it always emerges."
Kate Chopin
M
"The real tragedy is not in what we suffer, but in what we accept without question."
Mary Wilkins Freeman