Truth Quotes

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

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"I have suffered what I have written, and some have suffered what I have caused to be written."
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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"The deep truth is imageless."
Percy Bysshe Shelley
"Fame built on truth lasts longer than gold accumulated through deceit."
Aphra Behn
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"Do what you will, this Life's a Fiction and is made up of Contradiction."
William Blake
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"Every thing possible to be believ'd is an image of truth."
William Blake
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"I am not ashamed afraid or averse to tell you what ought to be told."
William Blake
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"When I tell any Truth it is not for the sake of Convincing those who do not know it but for the sake of defending those that do."
William Blake
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"We are led to Believe a Lie when we see with not Thro the Eye."
William Blake
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"A Lie told well is believed."
William Blake
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"He who has suffer'd you to impose on him knows you."
William Blake
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"Be not too confident of escaping observation."
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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"Sorrow only intensifies by delay and concealment."
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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"The heart knows secrets that the mind refuses to acknowledge."
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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"The search for truth often leads to bitter enlightenment."
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
"Speak truth and shame the devil."
Christina Rossetti
"Grieve not the truth from love withheld."
Christina Rossetti
"There is no redemption where there is no truth."
Christina Rossetti
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"The human heart is a mirror of the universe."
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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"The heart knows truths that the mind cannot grasp."
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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"Truth is a flame that cannot be extinguished."
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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"Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken."
Jonathan Swift
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"A man of sense can see through the greatest of disguises that passion may wear."
Jonathan Swift
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"A hypocrite despises those he deceives."
Jonathan Swift
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"Promises, covenants and oaths, which are the bonds of human conversation, are nothing but words."
Jonathan Swift
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"A lie does not consist in the indirect position of words, but in the desire and intention by the speaker to deceive."
Jonathan Swift
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"Flattery is the food of fools."
Jonathan Swift
"A woman's virtue is too often measured by her silence rather than her wisdom."
Eliza Haywood
"The mask we wear for society often hides our truest self from ourselves."
Eliza Haywood
"A moment of authenticity is worth a lifetime of careful performance."
Eliza Haywood
"Deception is the language of those too weak to speak truth."
Eliza Haywood