Truth Quotes

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

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"The deepest truth is that nothing matters ultimately."
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
"Truth is the light of the soul."
Romain Rolland
"Truth cannot be hidden forever."
Romain Rolland
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"I prefer the honest jargon of reality to the outright lies of false hope."
Anatole France
A
"The truth is that there is no actual truth, only perspectives."
Anatole France
A
"I prefer the natural style of argument to be that of reality."
Anatole France
F
"Truth has a way of emerging, no matter how deeply we bury it."
François Mauriac
F
"The voice of conscience grows fainter the more we ignore it."
François Mauriac
H
"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you"
Henry James
H
"Truth is often stranger than fiction because fiction must be believable"
Henry James
"Truth is like a surgical knife; it cuts, but it heals."
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
M
"People do not like to admit that they have made a mistake, especially a serious one."
Marcel Proust
M
"Even the smallest truth is better than the grandest of lies."
Marcel Proust
M
"Whoever does not know the language of silence will never know the language of truth."
Marcel Proust
M
"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."
Marcel Proust
M
"The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable."
Marcel Proust
"It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not."
André Gide
"It is good to follow one's own path, but it is better still to follow the truth."
André Gide
"In every concealment there is also a disclosure."
André Gide
"The truth is that the truth is hard."
André Gide
"The most absurd paradoxes become the most obvious truths."
André Gide
"Every man must find his own truth."
André Gide
N
"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 the true."
Nathaniel Hawthorne
N
"A man who speaks the truth is always at ease."
Nathaniel Hawthorne
N
"We mistake shadow for substance when we do not look closely at the light."
Nathaniel Hawthorne
"The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something and tell what it saw."
Romain Rolland
"In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they really are."
Romain Rolland
"Truth is beauty in its most refined form."
Romain Rolland
"Truth is the only foundation of justice."
Romain Rolland
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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."
François Mauriac