Truth Quotes

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

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H
"You taught me how cruel you've been—cruel and false."
Heathcliff
H
"My every nerve is revolted against him."
Heathcliff
H
"You say I've been cruel to her, speak of her as though she were rational."
Heathcliff
H
"I've done no injustice, and I repent of nothing."
Heathcliff
D
"Facts are the enemy of truth."
Don Quixote
D
"An honest man's word is as good as his bond."
Don Quixote
D
"All is not gold that glitters."
Don Quixote
D
"A promise made is a debt unpaid."
Don Quixote
A
"The truth is that life is delicious, horrible, charming, frightful, sweet, bitter, and that is everything."
Anna Karenina
A
"I do not admit that I am wrong; I only admit that I cannot explain myself."
Anna Karenina
A
"Hypocrisy in anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most penetrating man, but the least wide-awake of children recognizes it at once."
Anna Karenina
D
"There is no greater madness than to mistake shadows for reality."
Don Quixote
D
"Truth is so precious that it must be rationed."
Don Quixote
D
"The truth is buried somewhere in the depths of our hearts"
Dmitri Karamazov
D
"The wound of conscience is deeper than any physical wound"
Dmitri Karamazov
D
"A man who lies to himself can become cruel"
Dmitri Karamazov
D
"What is shame but the soul recognizing its own truth?"
Dmitri Karamazov
D
"I am a scoundrel, but not a thief"
Dmitri Karamazov
D
"I cannot deny that I am a sensualist"
Dmitri Karamazov
D
"The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point where he cannot distinguish truth from falsehood"
Dmitri Karamazov
D
"A man who lies to himself about the past is the most dangerous of men"
Dmitri Karamazov
D
"I am a man of passion, not principle"
Dmitri Karamazov
D
"I have loved wickedness, but I have also loved truth"
Dmitri Karamazov
M
"Mortals. You're all the same. So predictable."
Mr. D (Dionysus)
M
"You're half-god. That means half the potential, half the power."
Mr. D (Dionysus)
M
"You are expendable. Never forget that."
Mr. D (Dionysus)
T
"You cannot buy the wind"
Therem Harth rem ir Estraven
T
"Estraven was right, and I was slow to see it"
Therem Harth rem ir Estraven
T
"We are all traitors in the eyes of someone"
Therem Harth rem ir Estraven
T
"The truth is like ice: it cuts both ways"
Therem Harth rem ir Estraven