Truth Quotes

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

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"I am driven forward by an internal need for truth."
Charlotte Brontë
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"All great truths begin as blasphemies."
George Bernard Shaw
G
"Humanity's deadliest weapon is stupidity."
George Bernard Shaw
G
"The facts which at first seem improbable will, even on scant explanation, drop the cloak which has hidden them and stand forth in naked beauty."
George Bernard Shaw
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"The truth is rarely pure and never simple."
Oscar Wilde
O
"The truth is like a lion; you don't have to defend it."
Oscar Wilde
O
"The truth is the cry of all, but the game of the few."
Oscar Wilde
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"I am not an angel, and I will not pretend to be."
Anne Brontë
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"I despise flattery and false praise above all things."
Anne Brontë
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"I value truth-telling above all social niceties."
Anne Brontë
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"One must guard against self-deception above all things."
Anne Brontë
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"I am not an angel, and I will not pretend to be."
Emily Brontë
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"What we feel is real, even if it cannot be proven."
Emily Brontë
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"The pursuit of truth is never-ending."
Emily Brontë
E
"Truth cannot be silenced for long."
Emily Brontë
E
"The heart's truth cannot be denied."
Emily Brontë
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"The greatest tragedies often wear the face of ordinariness."
Thomas Hardy
T
"Truth wears many faces, and we see only the one turned toward us."
Thomas Hardy
T
"Truth is contextual, shifting with perspective and time."
Thomas Hardy
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"Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are."
George Eliot
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"There is no despair so absolute as that which comes at the close of a deceived hope."
George Eliot
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"Truth is like the sun—it cannot be hidden for long."
George Eliot
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"In our flaws, we find our most authentic humanity."
George Eliot
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"Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence"
Charles Dickens
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"The great enemy of clear language is insincerity"
Charles Dickens
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"I am not an angel, and I will not pretend to be one."
Anne Brontë
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"Truth may be bitter, but falsehood is always more poisonous."
Anne Brontë
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"The heart understands truths the mind cannot articulate."
Anne Brontë
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"In quietness lies the voice of truth."
Anne Brontë
"The truth is like a lion; you don't have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself."
Émile Zola