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 there is no truth!"
Raskolnikov
R
"The power of confession is transformative."
Raskolnikov
A
"What is the use of talking when words cannot convey what one feels?"
Anna Karenina
A
"Truth is sometimes hidden behind a veil of comfort."
Anna Karenina
D
"The truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth."
Don Quixote
A
"Better to die than to live in falsehood."
Arthur Dimmesdale
E
"Vanity and pride are different things."
Elizabeth Bennet
E
"How despicably I have acted! I, who have prided myself on my discernment!"
Elizabeth Bennet
E
"You could not have made me the offer of your hand in any possible way that would have tempted me."
Elizabeth Bennet
E
"We must all expect to be sting a little now and then."
Elizabeth Bennet
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"I trust I have not been too hasty in my administrations of praise."
Mr. Darcy
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"Betrayal is bitter, but it teaches invaluable lessons."
Edmond Dantès
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"The truth, though hidden, always emerges in time."
Edmond Dantès
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"Everything that I have thought and felt has been false and evil"
Levin
A
"One can endure anything if one lies to oneself sufficiently"
Anna Karenina
A
"The truth is often more terrible than the most beautiful lie"
Anna Karenina
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"What we refuse to face will eventually destroy us"
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator)
D
"A man may promise anything, but perform only what he can."
Don Quixote
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"I wanted to step over, and I did step over... I killed an old woman."
Raskolnikov
A
"Be true! Be true! Be true!"
Arthur Dimmesdale
A
"I am not the man I pretend to be."
Arthur Dimmesdale
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"Thou and I never, never!"
Hester Prynne
J
"Stupidity and dishonesty are two entirely different things."
Javert
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"I cannot endure this silence any longer"
Raskolnikov
R
"There is no escape from the conscience"
Raskolnikov
S
"The proof of the pudding is in the eating."
Sancho Panza
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"I simply feel that deception of any kind is a form of death."
Levin
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"The truth is like a lion; you don't have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself."
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator)
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"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."
Anna Karenina
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"Honesty is the best policy."
Sancho Panza