Truth Quotes
What is truth? These quotes explore honesty, reality, and the courage it takes to face both.
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"What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say."Ralph Waldo Emerson
"It is impossible for a man to be cheated by anyone but himself."Ralph Waldo Emerson
"A man is only as good as his word."Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Tell all the truth but tell it slant."Emily Dickinson
"Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it."Emily Dickinson
"The truth must dazzle gradually or every man be blind."Emily Dickinson
"I cannot live with Uncertainty, the only constant truth."Emily Dickinson
"The truth is a pain which will not stop."Louis-Ferdinand Céline
"Truth will set you free."Louis-Ferdinand Céline
"The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something, and tell what it saw in a plain sentence."Henry James
"The supreme good fortune is to know the truth."Henry James
"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."Henry James
"The real thing is admirable in any shape or form."Henry James
"The finest sensibilities respond most keenly to truth."Henry James
"Truth is like the sun; you cannot look directly at it without being blinded."François Mauriac
"The heart knows what the mind refuses to accept."François Mauriac
"Honesty is the foundation of all trust."François Mauriac
"Truth is eternal, but understanding evolves."François Mauriac
"If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything."Mark Twain
"Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't."Mark Twain
"Every man, since the fall of Adam, has been born with a skeleton in his closet."Nathaniel Hawthorne
"Truth is like a torch, the more it is shaken, the brighter it shines."Nathaniel Hawthorne
"The greatest sin is the suppression of truth."Nathaniel Hawthorne
"In every human heart, there dwells both light and shadow."Nathaniel Hawthorne
"Our true nature is revealed in moments of crisis."Nathaniel Hawthorne
"All things that are not to be doubted are doubtful."Herman Melville
"Better to maintain a fiction than admit a truth that wounds."Herman Melville
"We live in a world where truth wears a thousand different faces."Herman Melville
"A person is never happy but at the price of some ignorance."Anatole France
"The truth is like a lion; you don't have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself."Anatole France