Truth Quotes
What is truth? These quotes explore honesty, reality, and the courage it takes to face both.
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"We too have become too accustomed to untruth and it has become our essence."Alexander Solzhenitsyn
"I know the truth - all that trumpets speak of, all that gold dreams of, is a sham."Anna Akhmatova
"The weight of words can break a human heart."Anna Akhmatova
"Truth will always emerge, no matter how deeply it is buried"Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
"That which is true must inevitably be capable of becoming the concern of all mankind."Søren Kierkegaard
"That which truly interests me is to find out the truth and to live in it."Søren Kierkegaard
"Purity of heart is to will one thing."Søren Kierkegaard
"The greatest paradox is that truth must be lived as well as believed."Søren Kierkegaard
"The most common form of despair is pretending that everything is fine."Søren Kierkegaard
"The most agonizing suffering is the suffering that no one will believe in."August Strindberg
"The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something and tell what it saw in a plain sentence."August Strindberg
"The ugliest truth is better than the most beautiful lie."August Strindberg
"I have sought the truth everywhere, and found it nowhere but in myself."August Strindberg
"Truth has a way of emerging despite our best efforts to conceal it."Selma Lagerlöf
"The greatest gift one can give is one's honest self."Henrik Ibsen
"The power of one honest word exceeds a thousand lies."Henrik Ibsen
"Truth is not what we believe but what we can defend."Henrik Ibsen
"Do not live for your reputation, live for your conscience."Boris Pasternak
"What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth."Boris Pasternak
"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."Boris Pasternak
"The heart is deceitful above all things."Boris Pasternak
"Memory is a luxury where it comes to truth."Boris Pasternak
"The test of character is what we do when no one watches."Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
"Truth must be defended even when it is attacked by the whole world."Alexander Solzhenitsyn
"The pursuit of happiness is less noble than the pursuit of truth."Alexander Solzhenitsyn
"To refuse to speak is sometimes to speak louder than words."Anna Akhmatova
"A woman who speaks her truth becomes dangerous to those comfortable with lies."Anna Akhmatova
"A single true word is worth a thousand false ones, no matter how beautiful."Anna Akhmatova
"A word spoken in truth is worth more than a lifetime of comfortable lies."Anna Akhmatova
"A mask is a face."Vladimir Nabokov