Truth Quotes
What is truth? These quotes explore honesty, reality, and the courage it takes to face both.
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"I am what I am, and that's not much, but it's all I have."Samuel Beckett
"The essential doesn't change."Samuel Beckett
"The confusion is my only certainty."Samuel Beckett
"I have a deep conviction that we are betrayed by that which happens below our consciousness."James Joyce
"The hero of my youth has an unpleasant surprise in store for him."James Joyce
"The demand to give up illusions about the condition is the demand to give up a condition which needs illusions."James Joyce
"Paralysis. He felt the word. A cold lucidity of mind."James Joyce
"Every heart has its secrets."Fyodor Dostoevsky
"I am far from being what the authorities believe me to be."Fyodor Dostoevsky
"The most dangerous errors are hidden in truths."Fyodor Dostoevsky
"A lie often carries more truth than honesty."Fyodor Dostoevsky
"Ambition is the death of truth."Leo Tolstoy
"Deceit may serve for a time, but the truth is always the strongest."Leo Tolstoy
"Sincerity is the way of heaven."Leo Tolstoy
"There is nothing in this world more powerful than truth."Leo Tolstoy
"I hate falsehood and I can't tolerate it."Anton Chekhov
"Hypocrisy in anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most acutest man."Anton Chekhov
"I want the truth but I don't want to hear it."Anton Chekhov
"We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts."Ivan Turgenev
"Time strips away illusions; only truth remains."Ivan Turgenev
"The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions."Ivan Turgenev
"The Irish avoid the truth because they excel in the business of telling lies."William Butler Yeats
"I have nothing left but the truth."William Butler Yeats
"The peacock screams but cannot fly."William Butler Yeats
"The tears of the world are a constant quantity."Samuel Beckett
"Truth is what you can live with."Samuel Beckett
"Truth is often stranger than fiction."Samuel Beckett
"The truth is rarely pure and never simple."Oscar Wilde
"A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it."Oscar Wilde
"It is not the criminal things that are hardest to confess, but the ridiculous ones."Oscar Wilde