Truth Quotes
What is truth? These quotes explore honesty, reality, and the courage it takes to face both.
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"Sometimes they are five. Sometimes they are three. Sometimes they are all of them at once."O'Brien
"I would rather be unhappy and know the truth than be happy in ignorance."Ivan Karamazov
"The truth is often the hardest thing to bear."Ivan Karamazov
"Cruel? No, it's too true!"John the Savage
"She was good, but she was human."Scout Finch
"The fact, as I understand it, the fact that may be the least understood fact of all."Atticus Finch
"What happened to Tom's hands?"Scout Finch
"Dishonesty in a woman is a thing you never blame deeply."Nick Carraway
"We Russians are a strange people in this respect"Prince Andrei Bolkonsky
"You're a two-faced, double-dealing, smooth-talking, charming, deceptive son of a bitch."Yossarian
"I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known."Nick Carraway
"As you grow older, you'll see white men cheat black men every day of your life."Atticus Finch
"There are some moments when truth is not enough"Dmitri Karamazov
"Two and two make five."O'Brien
"That's a secret."Yossarian
"I don't know what you're talking about."Milo Minderbinder
"A man may renounce his own past, but he cannot renounce his conscience"Dmitri Karamazov
"He was real."Chief Bromden
"This is insanity."Chief Bromden
"There's a lot of ugly things in this world, son. I wish I could keep 'em all away from you. That's never possible."Atticus Finch
"Truth is often painful, but living in falsehood is more painful still."Prince Andrei Bolkonsky
"The pursuit of truth requires both intellectual rigor and spiritual humility."Pierre Bezukhov
"Sanity is not statistical."Winston Smith
"I got to be crazy to be in here, and I ain't crazy."Randle McMurphy
"You ever notice how the truth is always the simplest thing?"Randle McMurphy
"I ain't saying I'm a saint, but I'm not the monster they make me out to be."Randle McMurphy
"They want you to think you're sick, but you're not sickâyou're just different."Randle McMurphy
"A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies, becomes unable to recognize truth either in himself or in anyone else"Ivan Karamazov
"Sometimes it's hard to see what's real when they're always telling you what to think."Chief Bromden
"The real insanity is out there, not in here."Chief Bromden