Truth Quotes

What is truth? These quotes explore honesty, reality, and the courage it takes to face both.

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"There's no such thing as right and wrong."
Samuel Beckett
"Every voice carries a secret."
Samuel Beckett
"The only truth is that there is no truth."
Samuel Beckett
"I speak because I must."
Samuel Beckett
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"Truth is stranger and more beautiful than fiction."
James Joyce
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"The truth is like a lion; you don't have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself."
Leo Tolstoy
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"Do not say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary."
Leo Tolstoy
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"The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose."
George Eliot
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"Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of those who diffuse it."
George Eliot
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"Suffering is the price of consciousness."
Thomas Hardy
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"The tragic power of truth lies in its simplicity."
Thomas Hardy
T
"The world does not reward virtue; it rewards appearance."
Thomas Hardy
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"The human heart has hidden treasures, in secret kept, in silence sealed."
Anne Brontë
A
"I am not an angel and I will not pretend to be."
Anne Brontë
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"The greatest injury is the loss of one's integrity."
Anne Brontë
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"Truth will always triumph over deception."
Anne Brontë
A
"Truth is beauty in its purest form."
Anne Brontë
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"A man can embody truth and know it; the moment he ceases to embody it, he forgets it."
William Butler Yeats
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"I can make the truth, but I cannot make the people believe it."
William Butler Yeats
W
"Man can embody truth, but he cannot know it."
William Butler Yeats
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"I am not an angel, and I will not pretend to be."
Emily Brontë
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"Honest affection is ever hard to find."
Emily Brontë
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"The world may judge my words, but my heart knows the truth."
Emily Brontë
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"I have not broken your heart—you have broken it."
Emily Brontë
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"I would rather have one moment of honesty than a lifetime of deception."
Emily Brontë
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"Truth wears many faces."
Emily Brontë
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"All great truths begin as blasphemies."
George Bernard Shaw
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"The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it."
George Bernard Shaw
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"The truth is, the real loony here is me for pretending that a human body can do what a human body cannot do."
George Bernard Shaw
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"There is nothing like the real thing, baby."
George Bernard Shaw