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