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