Truth Quotes
What is truth? These quotes explore honesty, reality, and the courage it takes to face both.
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"Truth will always find a way to the surface."Maxim Gorky
"Truth is bitter but liberating."Maxim Gorky
"Honesty is the foundation of trust."Maxim Gorky
"The real thing, the real conspiracy, the actual data beyond the surface texture—that is what I look for."Vladimir Nabokov
"A man is only as good as his word, and his word is only as good as his memory."Vladimir Nabokov
"The truth will eventually come out, no matter how long we try to hide it."August Strindberg
"The truth is often more bitter than any lie we could tell ourselves."August Strindberg
"Integrity is doing the right thing when no one is watching."Henrik Ibsen
"To demand truth from others, you must first demand it from yourself."Henrik Ibsen
"Truth is often stranger and more terrible than any fiction."Henrik Ibsen
"In every generation there has to be some fool who will speak the truth as he sees it."Boris Pasternak
"What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth."Boris Pasternak
"The pursuit of truth often requires abandoning comfort."Boris Pasternak
"Truth-telling is an act of rebellion in a world of comfortable lies."Boris Pasternak
"It is no great thing to be honest when there is so little to be dishonest about."Nikolai Gogol
"Every man has some reminiscences which he would not tell to everyone."Nikolai Gogol
"Truth is like a lion; you don't have to defend it."Nikolai Gogol
"When the time for miracles is past, the time for truth has come."Maxim Gorky
"Truth has never lost battles with falsehood when men have been fair in stating the issue."Maxim Gorky
"The word brought about its own pain; for that pain, it must answer."Anna Akhmatova
"In the silence between heartbeats, truth speaks."Anna Akhmatova
"In darkness, we find what light conceals."Anna Akhmatova
"The truth is often too heavy for words to carry."Anna Akhmatova
"Our civilization can survive the loss of everything except the truth."Alexander Solzhenitsyn
"I have nothing left to lose by telling the truth."Alexander Solzhenitsyn
"Man has a responsibility to defend truth in his thoughts, words, and deeds."Alexander Solzhenitsyn
"The greatest treason is to deny the truth of our times."Alexander Solzhenitsyn
"Truth cannot be partial; it is either whole or it is a lie."Alexander Solzhenitsyn
"The most miserable of all men is he who makes a trade of falsehood."Mikhail Lermontov
"Truth may be bitter, but it sets free."Mikhail Lermontov