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