Truth Quotes

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

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"The truth will out, though it tarries"
Magwitch
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"I have a great deal to tell you"
Pip
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"The truth about my benefactor was the greatest shock"
Pip
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"Thou knowest that I was frank with thee. I felt no love, nor feigned any."
Hester Prynne
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"The minister! It was not so!"
Hester Prynne
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"I speak with the voice of one doom-smitten."
Arthur Dimmesdale
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"The guilty always fear the truth."
Edmond Dantès
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"The path to truth is often shrouded in darkness."
Monte Cristo
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"I have not the pleasure of understanding you."
Elizabeth Bennet
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"Angry as I was even then, I could not doubt the rest of her meaning."
Elizabeth Bennet
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"I try the practice of truth and the abstinence of lies."
Ishmael
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"I try the truth; I try all things, I achieve what I can; but I can only swear, not shout, my answer."
Ishmael
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"The chief thing is to be sincere"
Kitty Shcherbatskaya
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"I know the truth; it is as plain as day"
Anna Karenina
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"There is no greater deception than self-deception"
Levin
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"The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable"
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator)
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"One should believe in nothing but what they see"
Caderousse
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"I have worn the key-note of my life upon my lips all these years."
Estella
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"The truth is often painful, but always necessary."
Pip
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"Do anything, save to lie and play the hypocrite!"
Hester Prynne
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"The greatest of all human pursuits is the pursuit of truth."
Pierre Bezukhov
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"I am not one of those who will always speak well of you."
Elizabeth Bennet
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"I have not the pleasure of understanding you."
Elizabeth Bennet
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"You have insulted me in every possible method."
Mr. Darcy
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"You could not have made me the offer of your hand in any possible way that would have tempted me to accept it."
Elizabeth Bennet
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"The proof of the pudding is in the eating."
Sancho Panza
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"Honest waters never yet bore a false ship."
Don Quixote
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"I cannot live with this duplicity any longer."
Anna Karenina
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"Truth always emerges, no matter how long it is hidden."
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator)
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"The truth will set you free."
Edmond Dantès