Truth Quotes

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

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"The truth is that life is delicious, horrible, charming, frightful, sweet, bitter, and that is everything"
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator)
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"The world is not kind, and does not care"
Estella
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"I have already told him what I thought of him when last we conversed."
Elizabeth Bennet
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"Truth will out, as they say."
Sancho Panza
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"Every person has their own truth."
Don Quixote
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"What we did had a consecration of its own."
Hester Prynne
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"Be true! Be true! Be true!"
Arthur Dimmesdale
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"Thou wilt not reveal his name? Not outwardly, but within!"
Roger Chillingworth
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"The past cannot be changed, only understood"
Edmond Dantès
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"I am not afraid of madness, only of truth."
Raskolnikov
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"I understand nothing anymore."
Raskolnikov
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"Truth will always emerge."
Porfiry Petrovich
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"Conscience is the voice of the soul."
Anna Karenina
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"Hypocrisy in anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most penetrating man, but the least wide-awake of children recognizes it."
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator)
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"No one can truly know another person's heart."
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator)
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"The truth will always emerge, no matter how we try to hide it."
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator)
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"The truth will out in the end"
Porfiry Petrovich
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"Truth is like the sun; it cannot be hidden."
Pierre Bezukhov
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"Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I was right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?"
Elizabeth Bennet
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"Angry as I was with him, I cannot deny that there was some truth in his representation."
Elizabeth Bennet
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"I wish I could say anything to convince you of its being improbable."
Elizabeth Bennet
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"I am not, Hester, the man whom thy dearest thoughts have imagined."
Arthur Dimmesdale
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"Be true! Be true! Show freely to the world, if not your worst, yet some trait whereby the worst may be inferred."
Arthur Dimmesdale
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"The truth is rarely pure and never simple."
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator)
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"Truth is often more terrible than any lie."
Porfiry Petrovich
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"Facts are the enemy of truth."
Don Quixote
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"The world judges us by the masks we wear."
Monte Cristo
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"The dying never lie."
Edmond Dantès
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"You see I am a selfish creature; and for the sake of what I should gain in marrying you, I put it aside."
Mr. Bennet
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"The presence of the disease was the one thing that did not deceive him."
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator)