Truth Quotes

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

40912 quotes

A
"Before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself."
Atticus Finch
S
"How could I hold my head up to anyone if I couldn't even tell the truth?"
Scout Finch
M
"One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them."
Mustapha Mond
M
"That's the price we have to pay for stability."
Mustapha Mond
D
"The mind deceives us, but the heart never lies."
Dmitri Karamazov
B
"I've always been a little mad, I think."
Billy Bibbit
C
"The Combine is real, but it's not as real as you think it is."
Chief Bromden
A
"Before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself."
Atticus Finch
A
"As you grow older, you'll see white men cheat black men every day of your life."
Atticus Finch
S
"Atticus says cheating never prospers."
Scout Finch
S
"Atticus had said it was the simple hell of white men."
Scout Finch
A
"The one thing that's constant in this world is that the good are often not appreciated."
Atticus Finch
J
"A real experience is a painful experience."
John the Savage
W
"There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad."
Winston Smith
N
"This is the real world now"
Nurse Ratched
W
"It is our duty to the past as well as to the future to make the truth known."
Winston Smith
M
"The people who believe in truth and beauty must expect to be persecuted."
Mustapha Mond
J
"I'm not going to go on being hypocritical."
John the Savage
M
"Better to be happy than to be truthful."
Mustapha Mond
Y
"The only thing worth fighting for is the truth."
Yossarian
Y
"The world is full of crazy people forcing their awful mistakes on people."
Yossarian
C
"The truth is whatever is believed."
Colonel Cathcart
A
"There's something in our world that makes men lose their heads—they couldn't be fair if they tried."
Atticus Finch
A
"You've got to be honest about what you see and what you hear."
Atticus Finch
A
"The only thing that's important is the truth."
Atticus Finch
N
"The greatest thing is a man's conscience"
Natasha Rostova
R
"The real sickness is accepting what they tell you to accept."
Randle McMurphy
Y
"There is no one word for it."
Yossarian
P
"Truth is often stranger and more beautiful than the fiction we imagine"
Pierre Bezukhov
J
"Truth and beauty are on the same side."
John the Savage