Truth Quotes
What is truth? These quotes explore honesty, reality, and the courage it takes to face both.
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"Humility is often a guise."Vladimir Nabokov
"Truth is the breath of art."Vladimir Nabokov
"I hate with a passion anything that smacks of humbug."August Strindberg
"I am never more honest than when I am telling the truth through fiction."August Strindberg
"The most profound truths are often the simplest."August Strindberg
"The greatest lies are often told with the best intentions."August Strindberg
"Truth is like the sun; it may be hidden temporarily, but it will always shine through."Selma Lagerlöf
"Truth, like gold, becomes more valuable when it is refined by adversity."Selma Lagerlöf
"Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking."Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
"A person's word is the currency of their character."Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
"The truth may be hard, but it is always easier than the lies we tell ourselves."Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
"The prison-house of your selfishness and falsehood can only be opened from within."Henrik Ibsen
"What matters is not the external facts of a man's life but the inner truth of his character."Henrik Ibsen
"The greatest thing a man can do is to be true to himself."Henrik Ibsen
"All that glitters is not gold, but all that is true is precious."Henrik Ibsen
"Life demands honesty above all else."Henrik Ibsen
"What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth; there always remains something left over, aside, forgotten."Boris Pasternak
"The more honest one is, the more one is abandoned by one's friends."Boris Pasternak
"The deepest truths are often expressed in metaphor rather than statement."Boris Pasternak
"In the space between what we say and what we mean lies the whole of human truth."Boris Pasternak
"We know they are lying, they know they are lying, they know we know they are lying, we know they know we know they are lying, but they are still lying."Alexander Solzhenitsyn
"The belly-needs speak louder than the heart, but the heart speaks the truth."Alexander Solzhenitsyn
"One word of truth outweighs the entire world of lies."Alexander Solzhenitsyn
"The humble man who speaks truth is more powerful than the eloquent man who lies."Alexander Solzhenitsyn
"The violence we commit against the truth leaves scars that time cannot heal."Alexander Solzhenitsyn
"The heart needs only the truth to keep beating."Anna Akhmatova
"In the depths of conscience, we discover the truth of our being."Anna Akhmatova
"The truth is often too terrible for the living to bear."Anna Akhmatova
"The truth will set you free, but first it will break your heart."Anna Akhmatova
"Truth needs no ornament to make it beautiful."Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson