Truth Quotes

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

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"A lie told often enough becomes a kind of truth to the teller."
Ivan Karamazov
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"As you grow older, you'll see white men cheat black men every day of your life."
Atticus Finch
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"The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions"
Edmond Dantès
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"Crime is an illness, and I am the patient."
Raskolnikov
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"Confession is good for the soul."
Sonya
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"The hardest truth is often the simplest one we refuse to see"
Ivan Karamazov
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"Life's greatest jest is that we cannot see our own blindness"
Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
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"There are no absolute truths, only perspectives shaped by experience."
Monte Cristo
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"In the end the Party would announce that two and two made five."
Winston Smith
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"The act of lying is exactly the same as the act of thinking."
O'Brien
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"Debauchery is not villainy, but it is vile"
Dmitri Karamazov
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"But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry."
John the Savage
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"The moment of battle is a moment of truth."
Prince Andrei Bolkonsky
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"The simplest and most obvious truth is often the hardest to see."
Pierre Bezukhov
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"The most profound truth is often the simplest."
Prince Andrei Bolkonsky
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"I'm five years too old to lie to myself and call it honor."
Jay Gatsby
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"The truth is what you make it."
Tom Buchanan
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"As you grow older, you'll see white men cheat black men every day of your life"
Atticus Finch
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"The search for truth often leads us away from comfort"
Ivan Karamazov
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"Conscience is our most sacred guide to moral truth."
Jean Valjean
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"The truth was that Jay Gatsby came from West Egg, Brooklyn."
Nick Carraway
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"Dishonesty in a woman is a thing you never blame her for."
Jordan Baker
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"I'd like to see the catch written out."
Yossarian
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"When I look up, I see people cashing in. I don't see heaven or saints or angels."
Yossarian
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"The only problem is, nobody will believe me."
Yossarian
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"Consciousness is a disease."
Ivan Karamazov
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"Before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself."
Atticus Finch
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"Atticus always said he couldn't understand how people could live together and go on like they didn't know it."
Scout Finch
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"One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them."
Mustapha Mond
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"The past is whatever the Party chooses to make it."
Syme