Truth Quotes
What is truth? These quotes explore honesty, reality, and the courage it takes to face both.
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"There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times."Voltaire
"The human race is governed by lies."Voltaire
"The voice of conscience is louder than the voice of the crowd"Pierre Corneille
"Truth, like light, blinds those who are not prepared to see it."Jean Racine
"Words are weapons that wound more deeply than steel."Jean Racine
"There exists in every human heart a spark of heavenly fire called conscience."Charles Baudelaire
"Paradoxes are the only truths."Charles Baudelaire
"All the vices of mankind come from forgetting who they are and what they are."Charles Baudelaire
"Truth is often hidden beneath layers of comfortable lies."Charles Baudelaire
"Intellectual honesty requires us to doubt even our deepest convictions."Stéphane Mallarmé
"The greatest truth is often hidden beneath layers of paradox."Stéphane Mallarmé
"The power of words lies not in their loudness, but in their truth."Paul Verlaine
"The true test of a man's character is what he does when no one is watching."Molière
"Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue."Molière
"Vanity is the greatest of all follies, for it blinds one to the truth."Molière
"The pursuit of truth is never-ending, yet always worthwhile."Molière
"All that glitters is not gold, nor is all that shines divine."Arthur Rimbaud
"I seek not happiness but truth, even if it destroys me."Arthur Rimbaud
"I have found that silence contains more truth than speech."Arthur Rimbaud
"Truth is like the sun; you cannot look directly at it without being blinded."Gérard de Nerval
"In solitude, we find truth."Gérard de Nerval
"Truth needs no ornament."Victor Leconte de Lisle
"Truth is stranger than fiction."Victor Leconte de Lisle
"Speak truth with compassion."Victor Leconte de Lisle
"A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it"Théophile Gautier
"The greatest thing the human soul can do in this world is to see something and tell what it saw in a plain sentence"Théophile Gautier
"A man should be what he appears to be"Théophile Gautier
"The moment we desire to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it."Guy de Maupassant
"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."Guy de Maupassant
"Truth is like the sun; you can shut it out for a time, but it will not go away."Guy de Maupassant