Truth Quotes

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

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"Truth requires courage to speak and wisdom to hear."
Johan Christian Andersen
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"Truth is the foundation of all meaningful connection."
Johan Christian Andersen
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"The human heart contains multitudes of contradictions."
Knut Hamsun
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"Truth is often stranger than our illusions."
Knut Hamsun
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"Silence in conversation reveals more than words."
Knut Hamsun
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"Truth disturbs and unsettles comfortable lies."
Knut Hamsun
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"This truth within thy soul rehearse: that in a boundless universe is boundless better, boundless worse."
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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"In the long run, goodness and truth will prevail."
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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"What endures is not what is perfect, but what is honest."
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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"The greatest lies are those we tell ourselves."
Knut Hamsun
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"Truth will always shine through, no matter how hard it is hidden."
Hans Christian Andersen
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"The mirror shows us who we are; integrity shows who we choose to be."
Hans Christian Andersen
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"Truth always involves a break, a crisis, a leap."
Søren Kierkegaard
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"The only true way to be deceived is to accept as reality what is merely appearance."
Søren Kierkegaard
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"Purity of heart is to will one thing."
Søren Kierkegaard
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"Where the crowd is, untruth is."
Søren Kierkegaard
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"A crowd is untruth; only the individual can know truth."
Søren Kierkegaard
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"Truth may be difficult, but a lie is always more exhausting."
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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"Truth requires courage; lies require constant maintenance."
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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"The true fairy tale is truth itself."
Johan Christian Andersen
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"Truth cannot be hidden forever; it will always emerge."
Johan Christian Andersen
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"The path to truth is paved with uncomfortable questions."
Knut Hamsun
"Truth is within ourselves; it takes no rise from outward things, whate'er you may believe."
Robert Browning
"The cruelest lies are often told in silence."
Robert Browning
"Pain is what the world is about; yet we are taught to whisper and deny it."
Robert Browning
"Truth needs no oil of roses to make it sweet; it is sweet by its own nature."
Robert Browning
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"Truth bears a countenance so fierce that we must prepare ourselves to receive it."
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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"Truth cannot be spoken; it must be felt and lived."
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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"Every human being radiates what they are inside."
Hans Christian Andersen
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"The truth, though simple, is often the hardest thing to speak."
Hans Christian Andersen