Truth Quotes

"The truth is rarely pure and never simple."

"The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple."

"The truth is exactly what you would like it to be if you only had the courage to demand it."

"The truth is rarely pure and never what one wants to hear."

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

"The greatest crime is not to speak truth when one is capable of doing so."

"Truth may be painful, but it is better than comfortable falsehood."

"Truth has a way of emerging, no matter how deeply we bury it."

"The most honest moment in a person's life is often their final one."

"The village gossip is often more truthful than the historian."

"Words are weapons that wound, sometimes for centuries after they are spoken."

"The greatest enemy of truth is not falsehood, but comfortable half-truths."

"The mind that is in subjection to its passions cannot comprehend truth."

"A man's repentance is the act of a man who has been found out."

"Faithfulness and honesty are what a person is apt to lose when they cease to feel they are observed."

"Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion."

"Truth is precious and should be guarded carefully."

"In the darkness, the heart speaks most honestly."

"The truth is often harder to speak than any lie."

"Man can embody truth, but he cannot know it."

"I have always believed that unchastity is the one eternal sin."

"The Mask reveals man; it does not hide him."

"There are things that we know of that we cannot speak; there are things that we see that we dare not name."

"The only form of intellectual honesty is an absolute devotion to truth."

"We taste and feel and see the truth."

"Conventionality is not morality; self-righteousness is not religion."

"Misery generates hate."

"There is a difference between obeying orders and following conscience."

"Truth is like a torch; the more you brandish it, the more it burns."

"I respect you for your honesty above all things."