Truth Quotes

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

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"Is it something I've said that disturbs you?"
Mustapha Mond
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"I'm not saying I'm not weird. I'm not saying I'm not strange, mysterious, aggressive to the point of violence, but underneath I'm a good person."
Randle McMurphy
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"I been crazy."
Chief Bromden
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"I don't belong in here."
Billy Bibbit
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"Conscience is a phantom from within us"
Ivan Karamazov
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"The heart knows its own secrets"
Dmitri Karamazov
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"A lie spoken with conviction is more dangerous than a truth spoken in doubt"
Ivan Karamazov
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"Atticus told me to delete the adjectives and I'd have the facts."
Scout Finch
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"Truth, like gold, is purified by fire"
Pierre Bezukhov
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"You can't have the truth, the truth is too dangerous."
Nurse Ratched
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"The tablets don't make you calm, they make you dead."
Cheswick
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"Confession is not betrayal. What you say or do doesn't matter; only feelings matter."
O'Brien
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"The truth is not as straightforward as people think."
Ivan Karamazov
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"They got me figured for a psychopath."
Randle McMurphy
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"Reality is whatever they tell you it is."
Chief Bromden
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"I'm not crazy, I'm just honest about myself."
Randle McMurphy
R
"The truth is they're more afraid of us than we are of them."
Randle McMurphy
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"It's coming back to you now, isn't it? But you weren't expecting it, were you, Mrs. Mayella?"
Atticus Finch
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"Atticus said our simple hell-yes and hell-no of country people was just another way of talking about truth."
Scout Finch
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"There is no madness to it at all. None of it has any madness to it at all."
Yossarian
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"Nothing makes sense anymore."
Yossarian
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"A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies, becomes unable to recognize truth"
Ivan Karamazov
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"Pain is truth. You must learn to accept pain as your reality."
O'Brien
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"The island of truth lies somewhere beyond soma."
John the Savage
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"The search for truth is humanity's noblest quest"
Ivan Karamazov
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"Truth often hurts those who speak it"
Ivan Karamazov
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"This is true, this is kind, this is necessary, this is true"
Eliot Rosewater
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"There is truth and there is untruth, and if you cling to the truth even against the whole world, you are sane."
Winston Smith
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"You think you're fooling anybody?"
Nurse Ratched
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"Sometimes you have to lose yourself to find the truth."
Chief Bromden