Truth Quotes

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

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"I will always be true to the voice within me."
Zora Neale Hurston
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"The price of the ticket is the price of admission into the human race."
James Baldwin
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"Being a Negro in America means trying to be human under circumstances that do not make this easy."
James Baldwin
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"What you see is what you see. The rest is philosophy."
James Baldwin
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"We are destroyed by our own choices, made in haste and repented in sorrow."
Pearl S. Buck
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"The poor we shall always have among us, and that will not change."
Pearl S. Buck
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"The truth is that life itself is the supreme good."
Pearl S. Buck
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"Arrogance, incompetence, and an almost studied lack of interest in the human condition."
Sinclair Lewis
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"Character is what you are in the dark."
Sinclair Lewis
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"I love all things beautiful in the world, but even more I love fair-dealing and truth."
Sinclair Lewis
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"The sad thing about any man is he is sure to do it again."
John Steinbeck
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"The cat is out of the bag, and there's no use trying to put it back."
John Steinbeck
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"It is so easy to accept a thought that fills a need in one's mind."
John Steinbeck
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"Man has a tendency to accept any explanation as long as it is comforting."
John Steinbeck
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"The truth is like a lion; you don't have to defend it. Let it loose."
John Steinbeck
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"We are all so afraid of the truth that we build walls of words to protect ourselves from it."
John Steinbeck
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"The cat has absolute emotional honesty."
Ernest Hemingway
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"The hardest thing to do is to write truly about how a man feels."
Ernest Hemingway
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"I was always embarrassed by the words sacred, glorious, and sacrifice."
Ernest Hemingway
"The greatest tragedy of human existence is the absence of understanding."
Theodore Dreiser
"Truth is that which corresponds to reality."
Theodore Dreiser
"We are not punished for our sins, we are punished by them."
Theodore Dreiser
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"Draw your chair up close to the edge of the precipice and I'll tell you the truth."
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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"Character is what you are in the dark."
Pearl S. Buck
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"In her world, those were things which should be observed."
Edith Wharton
"There seems to be something in the human heart which will not be satisfied unless it knows the truth."
Willa Cather
"All our mistakes in life come from the desire to keep our dignity and respect."
Willa Cather
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"One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often."
Sinclair Lewis
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"We are all of us jimmying and jockeying the facts to suit our purposes."
Sinclair Lewis
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"The responsibility of journalism is to speak the truth, however unpopular."
Sinclair Lewis