Truth Quotes
What is truth? These quotes explore honesty, reality, and the courage it takes to face both.
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"Every man is entitled to his opinion, but he is not entitled to his own facts."Sinclair Lewis
"The cat is truth."Ernest Hemingway
"The things of the night cannot be explained in the day."Ernest Hemingway
"A writer must tell the truth as he sees it."Ernest Hemingway
"The world rewards those brave enough to be honest."Ernest Hemingway
"I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never really seen them."John Steinbeck
"We are all islands shouting lies to each other across seas of misunderstanding."John Steinbeck
"I know three things will never be believed by anybody: the true word, a fact as it happened, and what I really feel."John Steinbeck
"Sometimes, when the night is quiet and the moon is full, a man's heart speaks the truth."John Steinbeck
"We know better and do worse."John Steinbeck
"The curious thing about the Middle West is that when you ask these people a direct question, you often get a perfectly direct answer."F. Scott Fitzgerald
"To understand a person, observe what they do when they think no one is looking."F. Scott Fitzgerald
"The most common form of despair is pretending that everything is fine."F. Scott Fitzgerald
"Truth has a peculiar way of emerging, regardless of how deeply we attempt to bury it."Theodore Dreiser
"The truth we refuse to hear is often the truth we most desperately need."Theodore Dreiser
"One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often."Edith Wharton
"The worst thing about a liar is that he believes himself."Edith Wharton
"The most tragic thing in the world is innocence."Edith Wharton
"The eyes are the mirror of the soul; they speak what the lips dare not utter."Harriet Beecher Stowe
"The human heart is the first Bible."Harriet Beecher Stowe
"The greatest truth is the simplest thing in the world, simple as your own breath."Harriet Beecher Stowe
"Truth crushed to earth will rise again."Harriet Beecher Stowe
"The truth is rarely as simple as we wish it to be."Theodore Dreiser
"In small towns, gossip is the primary industry and scandal the chief entertainment."Sinclair Lewis
"Integrity is doing what you believe is right when nobody is watching."Sinclair Lewis
"Truth is rarely as simple as it appears."Sinclair Lewis
"Every individual has a locus of evaluation within himself."Willa Cather
"The sunlight of honest dealing never grows less bright."Willa Cather
"In every concealment there is also a disclosure."Willa Cather
"The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shock-proof detector for fraudulence."Ernest Hemingway