Truth Quotes

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

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"The first and last thing required of a genius is love of the truth."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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"The masses have never thirsted after truth. Whoever can supply them with illusions is easily their master."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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"Be bold enough to live in your own truth."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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"Truth is like a torch; the more it is shook, the more it shines."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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"He who with due sincerity is in pursuit of truth will surely find her."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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"The most profound truths are often found in simplicity."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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"The truth is like a lion; it does not need our defense."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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"I fear there is this weakness in the human side of me."
John Keats
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"Sorrow is the only truth I can accept with grace."
John Keats
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"What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet."
John Milton
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"The eyes are the windows of the soul."
John Milton
"The eye it cannot choose but see."
William Wordsworth
"The most profound truths are often the simplest."
William Wordsworth
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"What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet"
William Shakespeare
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"All that glisters is not gold"
William Shakespeare
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"Something is rotten in the state of Denmark"
William Shakespeare
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"The lady doth protest too much, methinks"
William Shakespeare
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"I love all that is true, and truth is often found in silence."
Lord Byron
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"I am ever not loath, in my practice, to sacrifice beauty for truth."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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"The improper use of words is the foundation of all human confusion."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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"What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet."
John Milton
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"The pursuit of truth often requires abandoning comfortable falsehoods."
John Milton
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"Truth is like light; it cannot be hidden for long."
John Milton
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"Truth is like a torch, the more it's shook the more it shines."
John Keats
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"Every instant has its cruelties; every pleasure its alloy."
John Keats
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"What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet"
William Shakespeare
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"To thine own self be true"
William Shakespeare
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"Out, damned spot! Out, I say!"
William Shakespeare
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"This above all: to thine own self be true, and it must follow as night follows day"
William Shakespeare
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"The lady doth protest too much, methinks"
William Shakespeare