Truth Quotes

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

40912 quotes

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"I simply feel that this cannot be right."
Anna Karenina
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"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator)
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"Be true! Be true! Be true!"
Arthur Dimmesdale
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"I am not, nor ever was, the husband of this woman."
Roger Chillingworth
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"I feel no love, nor feigned love, for this woman!"
Arthur Dimmesdale
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"A secret sin is half-understood."
Porfiry Petrovich
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"The weight of secrets destroys the bearer."
Villefort
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"I have lived, and I have done wrong."
Anna Karenina
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"Everything I have thought and felt has been false."
Anna Karenina
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"The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable."
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator)
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"The truth is that I am certainly a scoundrel"
Raskolnikov
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"A lie is more comfortable than the truth"
Raskolnikov
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"Fair words make me not a merchant."
Sancho Panza
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"Truth and honesty are the foundation of all virtue."
Don Quixote
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"I have not the pleasure of understanding you."
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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"Be true! Be true! Be true!"
Arthur Dimmesdale
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"Behold, I stand upon the scaffold of the pillory, and beside me is the woman of the scarlet letter"
Arthur Dimmesdale
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"In moments of weakness, we reveal our true nature."
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator)
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"We deceive ourselves more than others deceive us."
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator)
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"Sincerity is the shortest distance between two people."
Edmond Dantès
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"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold secret."
Edmond Dantès
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"Truth needs no ornament of words to make it acceptable."
Don Quixote
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"A lie has no legs to run on, but truth has wings to fly."
Sancho Panza
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"A woman's reputation, once lost, cannot be recovered."
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator)
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"Truth is often more painful than comfortable lies."
Dolly Oblonskaya
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"It ought not to be done; but it has been."
Mr. Bennet
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"Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility."
Mr. Darcy
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"I am convinced that one of you must have been acting so as to expose the other."
Mr. Bennet
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"Man grows accustomed to everything, the scoundrel!"
Marmeladov