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