Truth Quotes

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

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"Two plus two make five."
O'Brien
O
"Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else."
O'Brien
O
"For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four? Or that the force of gravity works?"
O'Brien
W
"There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad."
Winston Smith
S
"How could you make a speech condemning Goldstein if you had never heard of him until this moment?"
Syme
O
"Your mind contains encrypted messages."
O'Brien
W
"There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad."
Winston Smith
W
"There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad."
Winston Smith
O
"Reality control is the ability to control not just events but facts themselves."
O'Brien
W
"I am the last man who cares about objective truth."
Winston Smith
O
"The Brotherhood has never existed."
O'Brien
W
"Two and two make four, and no power on earth could change it."
Winston Smith
O
"Do you see, Winston, that this is not merely a political doctrine, but a claim about objective reality?"
O'Brien
O
"Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else."
O'Brien
O
"The book has been discovered and destroyed. No copy exists elsewhere. You have read the last copy that exists in the world."
O'Brien
W
"Sometimes they are five. Sometimes they are three. Sometimes they are all of them at once."
Winston Smith
S
"Reality control is not merely the destruction of grammar; it is the destruction of meaning itself."
Syme
O
"Reality is inside the skull. Whatever the Party holds to be truth is truth."
O'Brien
W
"There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad."
Winston Smith
O
"Confession is not betrayal. What you say or do doesn't matter; only feelings matter."
O'Brien
O
"Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else. Not in the individual mind, which can make mistakes, but in the mind of the Party."
O'Brien
O
"You must learn to accept reality as the Party presents it, or be destroyed."
O'Brien
W
"There is truth and there is untruth, and if you cling to the truth even against the whole world, you are sane."
Winston Smith
O
"Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else. Not in the individual mind, which can make mistakes, and in any case soon perishes. Only in the mind of the Party."
O'Brien
W
"It was not a voluntary confession but a grasping of the obvious truth."
Winston Smith
T
"The only certainty in this world is death and taxes"
The Narrator
J
"I am not an angel, and I will not pretend to be one."
Jane Eyre
M
"I have an awful crime to confess."
Mr. Rochester
J
"Women are supposed to be very calm generally, but women feel just as men feel."
Jane Eyre
J
"I have awakened from my dream."
Jane Eyre