Truth Quotes

"You can't judge a book by its cover, nor can you always judge words by their definitions."

"I've been a lot of things in my life. Not all of them have been good."

"I've had seven husbands and loved exactly none of them."

"I've spent my whole life running from the truth. And it never helped."

"Secrets have a way of poisoning everything they touch."

"The truth will destroy you if you let it. So sometimes you don't."

"I've been called a lot of things: ambitious, calculating, selfish. They were all true."

"I learned that you can't build a life on secrets. They crack the foundation."

"I am not mad—I am only not merry."

"I am not what I seem, nor what I appear."

"Truth emerges like the sun at dawn."

"I am not cruel, only truthful – the truth being often harsh."

"You teach me now how cruel you've been – cruel and false. Why did you despise me?"

"I am not wicked—I am miserable."

"I am condemned to discover and abhor the truth."

"I am not guilty, but I am not innocent either."

"Like a compass needle that points north, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman."

"It was a girl, Rasheed said, as though it had been Laila's fault."

"Suffering can't be reinvented."

"She had learned that the world is a cruel place, indifferent to suffering."

"I write not for the indulgence of my passion for writing."

"Yet when I reflect that you have probably destroyed that only evidence of your crime, I own that I am surprised."

"If you will permit me, I will relate my entire history."

"The truth must be told"

"There is truth and there is untruth. It is only by risking death that you discover it."

"Even to understand the word 'politics' you would need to swallow enormous amounts of lies."

"I do not accept your answers. Furthermore, I am not even sure that some of your answers are right."

"You see, Winston, reality is not external. Reality exists in the human mind."

"Sanity is not statistical."

"They could not alter the past. Of all that mattered, the Party could alter nothing."