Truth Quotes

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

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"We are all apt to believe what the world believes about us."
Mary Wilkins Freeman
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"The deepest truths are often found in the smallest moments."
Mary Wilkins Freeman
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"In silence, we often hear the voice of truth."
Mary Wilkins Freeman
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"The truth, once known, cannot be unknown."
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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"Truth cannot hide forever; it will emerge."
Booth Tarkington
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"Truth is often inconvenient but always necessary."
Booth Tarkington
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"I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach."
Upton Sinclair
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"What we fail to acknowledge in our society becomes the invisible foundation it rests upon."
Upton Sinclair
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"The truth, however difficult, is always better than a comfortable lie."
Mary Wilkins Freeman
"Truth is something we have to live with and discover."
Sherwood Anderson
"The truth will set you free."
Sherwood Anderson
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"The greatest thing in the world is a clear conscience, even if you have to bluff a little to get one."
O. Henry
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"Truth is like surgery—it may hurt, but it heals."
O. Henry
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"Truth is the most valuable currency in any transaction."
O. Henry
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"She was becoming herself and daily casting aside that fictitious self which we assume like a garment with which to appear before the world."
Kate Chopin
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"The heart knows no law but its own."
Kate Chopin
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"The rewards of virtue are in the attainment of virtue, and not in a table of rules."
Booth Tarkington
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"To know the truth, one must follow it wherever it leads."
Upton Sinclair
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"In the end, the world will judge me not by my words but by my deeds."
Jack London
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"To write is to express one's truth; to live is to become it."
Jack London
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"You cannot get something for nothing—this is a law of nature."
Jack London
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"The truth, however painful, is always preferable to comfortable delusion."
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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"Truth is such a precious article, let us economize its use."
O. Henry
"There is a kind of truth that comes only to those who have lived much and observed closely."
Sherwood Anderson
"Men fear nothing so much as the truth."
Sherwood Anderson
"The world is full of people living lives of quiet desperation."
Sherwood Anderson
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"The minute you or anybody else knows what you are you are not it, you are what you then say you are and not it."
Gertrude Stein
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"She had a feeling that to be right might not be altogether pleasant."
Gertrude Stein
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"I could not say it if I did not think it therefore I said it."
Gertrude Stein
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"The truth is often hidden beneath layers of pretense."
Booth Tarkington