Truth Quotes
What is truth? These quotes explore honesty, reality, and the courage it takes to face both.
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"Authenticity requires that we live without illusions and without false hope."Simone de Beauvoir
"Commitment is healthiest when it's not without doubt."André Gide
"What is complication but the absence of truth?"André Gide
"Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today's events."Marcel Proust
"The most powerful truth is often the simplest one."Marcel Proust
"Truth is hard to find because too many people lie."Jean-Jacques Rousseau
"The man who feels guilty is already condemned."Jean-Jacques Rousseau
"The power of truth will ultimately prevail."Jean-Jacques Rousseau
"But what does that mean, your honor? All I maintain is that on this earth there are pestilences and there are victims."Albert Camus
"The evidence I have against him is not without value."Albert Camus
"There is no escape from the truth within oneself."Albert Camus
"I want everything explained to me or nothing."Albert Camus
"Martyrdom does not change anything."Albert Camus
"The duty to speak is the inverse of the right to listen."Albert Camus
"Truth is like light—it travels without breaking anything."Montesquieu
"Bad faith is a fundamental dishonesty that humans perpetuate toward themselves."Jean-Paul Sartre
"The role of the intellectual is to speak truth and expose lies."Jean-Paul Sartre
"The best way to avoid bad faith is to be fully conscious of one's freedom."Jean-Paul Sartre
"The truth is that every human being, man or woman, is infinite; every human relationship is infinite."Simone de Beauvoir
"Authenticity requires that one speak the truth even when the truth is unpopular."Simone de Beauvoir
"The body speaks a truth that words often conceal."Simone de Beauvoir
"Skepticism is the first step toward truth."Denis Diderot
"A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it."Denis Diderot
"The tyranny of custom and prejudice is the greatest enemy of truth."Denis Diderot
"Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now."Denis Diderot
"Honest people are the noblest work of God."Jean-Jacques Rousseau
"Beware of those who claim to know the truth absolutely."Jean-Jacques Rousseau
"What is good must also be true, or it is not truly good."Jean-Jacques Rousseau
"The pursuit of truth is the noblest human endeavor."Jean-Jacques Rousseau
"It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not."André Gide