Truth Quotes

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

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"The great advantage of telling the truth is that one does not have to remember anything."
Stendhal
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"The great error of most biographers is to make men either white or black; there is no grey in their pictures."
Stendhal
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"I have always loved the truth, but not always known it."
George Sand
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"I am not afraid to state the truth as I see it, even if it offends."
George Sand
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"The blush is the colour of virtue."
Frances Burney
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"The more we are known, the less we are known."
Frances Burney
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"Truth is always more valuable than fiction."
Frances Burney
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"To seek truth is to seek freedom."
Frances Burney
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"The mirror of the soul is in our actions."
Frances Burney
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"Cunning is the dark sanctuary of incapacity."
Henry Fielding
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"Flattery is a species of lying which can never be innocent."
Henry Fielding
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"The power of truth lies in its inevitability."
Henry Fielding
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"Truth may be suppressed but never destroyed."
Henry Fielding
"The greatest traitors are those who betray themselves."
Daniel Defoe
"The truth needs no ornament."
Daniel Defoe
"Integrity is the cornerstone of character."
Daniel Defoe
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"Weaknesses and errors pave the way to truth, and often it is combined with trials and small miseries."
Mary Wollstonecraft
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"Civilized women are often weaker, more fractious, and less virtuous than savages."
Mary Wollstonecraft
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"Women, in fact, are everywhere to be seen, not because they are inferior, but because they have been despised."
Mary Wollstonecraft
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"Women have been made subordinate by the ignorance and selfishness of men."
Mary Wollstonecraft
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"Women are all virgins, in the sense that they are unused and unformed."
Mary Wollstonecraft
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"The corruption of the best is the worst corruption."
Mary Wollstonecraft
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"Women are often made unhappy by the expectations placed upon them by society."
Mary Wollstonecraft
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"The subjection of women has corrupted society and weakened the human race."
Mary Wollstonecraft
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"Confusion and perplexity are often but the first intimations of truth."
Laurence Sterne
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"True eloquence lies in the presentation of simple truths simply."
Laurence Sterne
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"In the architecture of the soul, honesty is the foundation."
Laurence Sterne
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"The human capacity for self-deception is infinite and boundless."
Laurence Sterne
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"The heart knows truths that reason cannot articulate."
Ann Radcliffe
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"The deepest truths are often conveyed through silence."
Ann Radcliffe