Truth Quotes

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

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"The truth has a way of emerging, no matter how deep we bury it."
Alexandre Dumas
"One should not criticize people for their pessimism; their complaints often have a foundation in reality."
Gustave Flaubert
"It is impossible to be just to books that are unjust to us."
Gustave Flaubert
"Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd."
Gustave Flaubert
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"The greatest deception is self-deception."
Honoré de Balzac
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"The bitter truth is often more valuable than the sweet lie."
Honoré de Balzac
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"I have nothing to confess; I am as innocent as the driven snow."
John Keats
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"Fair is most foul, and foul most fair."
John Keats
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"Truth is like a torch: the more it's shaken, the more it shines."
John Keats
"In every concealment there is also a disclosure."
William Wordsworth
"The truth lies beyond the grasp of language."
William Wordsworth
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"Be what you are and speak the truth boldly."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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"The finest words cannot capture the truth of a feeling."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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"Truth is not determined by majority vote or powerful rhetoric."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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"Adversity is the first path to truth"
Lord Byron
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"What man is he that hates to see himself the image of his soul"
Lord Byron
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"The great object of life is sensation and truth"
Lord Byron
"The truth is like the sun; you cannot look at it without being blinded."
Mary Shelley
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"Conscience is God present in man."
Victor Hugo
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"Our words are guaranteed to fail, but our actions speak volumes."
Victor Hugo
"There is nothing romantic in a decomposed body."
Jane Austen
"It is a peculiar torture, to doubt the constancy of the one being on earth whom we trust with all our hearts."
Jane Austen
"I am now convinced that I have never been much in love; for had I really been so, I could not have so readily accepted your refusal."
Jane Austen
"There is a good deal of doubt in my mind."
Jane Austen
"There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them."
Jane Austen
"I do justice to your claims."
Jane Austen
"It is not every man's fate to marry the woman who loves him best."
Jane Austen
"The deepest truths are hidden in silence."
William Wordsworth
"Truth is stranger than fiction because fiction must seem probable."
William Wordsworth
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"Truth is like the sun—you can shut it out for a time, but it is not gone."
Lord Byron