Truth Quotes
What is truth? These quotes explore honesty, reality, and the courage it takes to face both.
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"Something is rotten in the state of Denmark"William Shakespeare
"Fair is foul, and foul is fair"William Shakespeare
"Words without thoughts never to heaven go"William Shakespeare
"A man may smile and smile and be a villain"William Shakespeare
"I am not fond of the melancholy, yet I will not shrink from the truth."Lord Byron
"There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it."Lord Byron
"A man is master of his words, but not his meanings."Lord Byron
"I am not mad, I am merely truthful in an age of deceit."Lord Byron
"Truth is so obscure in these times and falsehood so established that unless we love the truth, we shall never know it."Dante Alighieri
"Seek truth, for truth shall set you free."Dante Alighieri
"The truth of a man is not found in his words, but in the consistency of his deeds."William Wordsworth
"The greatest virtue is to speak the truth and operate with honor."Geoffrey Chaucer
"The smiler with the knife under the cloke."Geoffrey Chaucer
"Trouthe and honour, fredom and curteisye."Geoffrey Chaucer
"A lie may travel around the world, but truth will follow."Geoffrey Chaucer
"Truth belongs to the man who has eyes to see it."Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it is not going away."Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Something is rotten in the state of Denmark."William Shakespeare
"The lady doth protest too much, methinks."William Shakespeare
"For neither man nor angel can discern hypocrisy, the only evil that walks invisible."John Milton
"In every concealment there is also a revealing."John Milton
"To be thus is nothing but to be thus seen."John Milton
"Neither promise yourself something that you may not be able to afford."Ovid
"The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones."Virgil
"Truth needs no ornament."Virgil
"Truth will always prevail in the end."Virgil
"Bronze is the mirror of the form; wine, of the heart."Homer
"He who speaks falsely is not less blameworthy than he who listens approvingly."Dante Alighieri
"Truth has a way of emerging despite all efforts to conceal it."Dante Alighieri
"Truth may be hidden, but it cannot be destroyed forever."Geoffrey Chaucer