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 set you free."
Don Quixote
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"A lie is a poison that spreads through the entire soul."
Raskolnikov
L
"The presence of the problem was enough."
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator)
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"In the presence of death, all pretense falls away."
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator)
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"We deceive ourselves more than we deceive others."
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator)
L
"Truth is stranger and more complex than fiction."
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator)
L
"The truth we avoid always finds us."
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator)
A
"Be true! Be true! Be true!"
Arthur Dimmesdale
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"Keep, therefore, the secret, cousin, as thou valuest thy life!"
Hester Prynne
A
"Better to die than to live a lie."
Arthur Dimmesdale
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"I love my country, but I love truth more than my country."
Ivan Karamazov
I
"A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies, becomes unable to recognize truth."
Ivan Karamazov
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"The heart's truth often contradicts the mind's logic, yet both must be honored."
Don Quixote
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"I want to see you act on your principles"
Porfiry Petrovich
R
"I have come to believe that the whole world is an abomination."
Raskolnikov
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"A guilty conscience needs no accuser."
Porfiry Petrovich
L
"Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't going away."
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator)
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"Thou wilt not reveal his name"
Hester Prynne
A
"We are not, Hester, the worst sinners in the world"
Arthur Dimmesdale
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"We have wronged each other deeply"
Hester Prynne
D
"A good reputation is better than gold."
Don Quixote
I
"The struggle for truth is the noblest of all pursuits."
Ivan Karamazov
H
"Keep, therefore, the secret, as thou valuest thy life!"
Hester Prynne
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"The world had deceived her with its promises."
Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
G
"The reality of life was far crueler than any novel."
Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
G
"Her infidelity was born of desperation, not malice."
Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
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"She had no one to blame but herself for her predicament."
Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
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"Romance had poisoned her mind against reality."
Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
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"I cannot live with a lie in my heart"
Raskolnikov
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"The truth may be stretched thin, but it never breaks"
Sancho Panza