Truth Quotes

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

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"When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."
Anatole France
"The truth is that life disgusts everyone equally, we just distract ourselves differently."
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
"The truth tastes like ashes in the mouth of those who speak it."
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
"The only honest thing about us is our desire to escape ourselves."
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
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"Silence can be the most eloquent form of truth."
François Mauriac
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"We are all divided between the person we are and the person we pretend to be."
François Mauriac
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"Truth often wears the mask of discomfort."
François Mauriac
E
"While I state the solemn Fact one Fact cannot state itself."
Emily Dickinson
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"The Hollows in the Bee are fitted with the Honey of the Truth."
Emily Dickinson
E
"The Truth must dazzle gradually or every Man be blind."
Emily Dickinson
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"The real offence, as she now perceived, was in her.__awareness."
Henry James
H
"The facts fail to convey the sense of the thing."
Henry James
H
"The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else."
Henry James
H
"Deception is the thing we can least afford in any quarter."
Henry James
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"The supreme virtue is to speak the truth."
Henry James
"If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything."
Mark Twain
"A lie can travel around the world before the truth has a chance to get dressed."
Mark Twain
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"It is the horrible texture of a lie that covers itself with a new lie always."
Herman Melville
H
"The world does seem to run on deceit, does it not."
Herman Melville
H
"The very essence of truth is that it requires constant vigilance and reassessment."
Herman Melville
N
"A person is always startled when actualities are first unfolded to him."
Nathaniel Hawthorne
N
"Guilt is a thing of exquisite sensitivity."
Nathaniel Hawthorne
N
"Nothing is easier than to invent untruth, but to live with it is a trial."
Nathaniel Hawthorne
N
"Never trust those who speak much of their virtue, or those who claim to have none."
Nathaniel Hawthorne
N
"The human heart conceals all manner of ugliness beneath a fair exterior."
Nathaniel Hawthorne
N
"A person's true nature cannot long be concealed."
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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"A single grain of conscience is worth more than a shipload of gold."
Nathaniel Hawthorne
"The real poison is in the heart of man, not in external circumstances."
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
"Truth exists, but nobody really wants to hear it."
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
"Truth is unpleasant; that's why everyone avoids it."
Louis-Ferdinand Céline