Truth Quotes

"A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal."

"Despair is the price one pays for self-awareness."

"Every man has reminiscences which he would not tell to everyone."

"Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by growth but by washing away all that is not gold."

"I've more or less got the measure of this world. It's a very unsatisfactory arrangement."

"His consciousness is the most transparent thing imaginable."

"To know the truth, one must abandon comfortable lies."

"Truth is stranger than fiction because it has no obligation to be coherent."

"The world is unhappy, it is a misfortune."

"I am not equal to my own situation."

"I prefer silence to the sound of lies."

"The world is full of suffering and that's the only relief."

"There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact."

"Every heart hides its own tragedy."

"The truth is like a lion; you don't have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself."

"I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy."

"All great truths begin as blasphemies."

"A man can embody truth and know it, the moment he has ceased to need it."

"The truth is that we contain multitudes, warring and in harmony all at once."

"Truth is often stranger than fiction."

"The truth will set you free."

"The truth is rarely pure and never simple."

"The truth is like a lion; you don't have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself."

"What is the world coming to when one cannot even depend upon the labels on bottles?"

"The very truth is these days damned."

"I never give myself the airs of a prophet, but I do always speak my own mind."

"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."

"The essential doesn't change."

"The air is full of our cries."

"The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars but in ourselves."