Truth Quotes

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

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"Truth is like the sun; you can shut it out for a time, but it is not going to go away."
James Fenimore Cooper
"Character is what we are in the dark."
James Fenimore Cooper
"A person's reputation is their most valuable possession."
James Fenimore Cooper
"The test of character is what we do when no one is watching."
James Fenimore Cooper
"The greatest betrayal is to betray one's own principles."
James Fenimore Cooper
"Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"In nature nothing can be given, all things are sold."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Believe nothing you hear and half of what you see."
Edgar Allan Poe
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"Truth is like a precious stone, often buried beneath lies."
Edgar Allan Poe
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"The greatest truths are often hidden in plain sight."
Edgar Allan Poe
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"Tell all the truth but tell it slant."
Emily Dickinson
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"Truth spoken gently finds soil in hardened hearts."
Emily Dickinson
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"Truth is like the sun; you cannot look it in the face when it is too near and strong."
Washington Irving
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"There is nothing so powerful as truth, and often nothing so strange."
Washington Irving
"The lack of money is the root of all evil."
Mark Twain
"If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything."
Mark Twain
"The truth is like a lion; you don't have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself."
Mark Twain
"The lack of money is the root of all evil."
Mark Twain
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"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."
Herman Melville
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"Some truths are too terrible to speak aloud, yet they demand to be written."
Herman Melville
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"A moment of truth is worth more than a lifetime of comfortable lies."
Herman Melville
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"No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without getting bewildered as to which may be true."
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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"There is evil in every human heart."
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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"Nobody is ever quite straightforward in talking about his own sins."
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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"The truth of the human heart is one's most valuable possession."
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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"Let us be true to ourselves and honest with others."
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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"The heart has its secrets, and the mind cannot always read them."
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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"I am absolutely certain that I am not mad."
Edgar Allan Poe
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"Believe nothing you hear and half of what you see."
Edgar Allan Poe
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"I found myself more correct in my convictions than in my opinions."
Edgar Allan Poe