Truth Quotes

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

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"Mystery is the veil that covers the face of truth."
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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"The heart never lies, though the mind deceives."
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
"Truth needs no armor to defend itself."
Robert Browning
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"Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believ'd."
William Blake
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"Truth in all things is the foundation of all virtue."
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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"Silence can be a form of honesty."
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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"The very truth that sets men free is often that which binds them first."
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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"Truth like gold must be refined by fire."
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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"Truth needs no ornament."
Johan Christian Andersen
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"Truth is beauty in its purest form."
Johan Christian Andersen
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"Truth cannot be spoken, only experienced"
Knut Hamsun
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"Truth is often stranger than the lies we tell ourselves"
Knut Hamsun
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"Truth is like a dance, it is the pleasure of the crowd."
Søren Kierkegaard
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"Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own."
Søren Kierkegaard
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"Subjectivity is the truth."
Søren Kierkegaard
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"Truth always rests with the minority."
Søren Kierkegaard
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"Just as the sun itself is the source of all light, so truth must be in a reality that is not merely relative."
Søren Kierkegaard
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"The heart of such a man is a very deep well of truth."
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold secret within oneself."
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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"A lie has many variations, but the truth is always the same."
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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"Truth needs no ornament; it stands sublime by itself."
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
"Truth is within ourselves; it takes no rise from outward touch."
Robert Browning
"Truth needs no advertisement; it speaks through its own clarity."
Robert Browning
"Truth liberates; falsehood enslaves."
Robert Browning
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"I would rather be a true peasant than the greatest ruler alive."
Hans Christian Andersen
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"The heart never lies."
Hans Christian Andersen
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"Truth is a glorious thing, though it comes with a price."
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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"Utter your words as if they were sacred truths."
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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"How hollow is praise without understanding."
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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"Melancholy follows those who refuse to face their truth."
Elizabeth Barrett Browning