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
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"Tell all the truth but tell it slant."
Emily Dickinson
E
"Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it."
Emily Dickinson
E
"The truth must dazzle gradually or every man be blind."
Emily Dickinson
E
"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
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"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
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"The supreme good fortune is to know the truth."
Henry James
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"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."
Henry James
H
"The real thing is admirable in any shape or form."
Henry James
H
"The finest sensibilities respond most keenly to truth."
Henry James
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"Truth is like the sun; you cannot look directly at it without being blinded."
François Mauriac
F
"The heart knows what the mind refuses to accept."
François Mauriac
F
"Honesty is the foundation of all trust."
François Mauriac
F
"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
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"Every man, since the fall of Adam, has been born with a skeleton in his closet."
Nathaniel Hawthorne
N
"Truth is like a torch, the more it is shaken, the brighter it shines."
Nathaniel Hawthorne
N
"The greatest sin is the suppression of truth."
Nathaniel Hawthorne
N
"In every human heart, there dwells both light and shadow."
Nathaniel Hawthorne
N
"Our true nature is revealed in moments of crisis."
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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"All things that are not to be doubted are doubtful."
Herman Melville
H
"Better to maintain a fiction than admit a truth that wounds."
Herman Melville
H
"We live in a world where truth wears a thousand different faces."
Herman Melville
A
"A person is never happy but at the price of some ignorance."
Anatole France
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"The truth is like a lion; you don't have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself."
Anatole France