Truth Quotes

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

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"Men love their phantasies more than they love truth"
Ivan Karamazov
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"You're at least honest. That's more than I can say for most of them."
Randle McMurphy
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"The highest human activity is the search after truth."
Prince Andrei Bolkonsky
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"Truth is higher than happiness"
Ivan Karamazov
B
"You're not crazy if you can admit you're crazy."
Billy Bibbit
C
"Being honest will get you in more trouble than lying."
Cheswick
B
"You can't fix what you don't admit is broken."
Billy Bibbit
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"All this happened, more or less. The war parts, anyway, are pretty much true."
Kurt Vonnegut
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"The truth about the past."
Mustapha Mond
M
"Happiness and truth cannot coexist."
Mustapha Mond
C
"The Combine is real. It's the world."
Chief Bromden
C
"The system breaks anyone who challenges it."
Chief Bromden
C
"They made us believe we needed them."
Chief Bromden
C
"The fog keeps us from seeing the truth."
Chief Bromden
C
"The medication is just a tool of control."
Chief Bromden
P
"Anything is better than lying and deceit"
Pierre Bezukhov
D
"People love a criminal less, but a criminal loves himself more"
Dmitri Karamazov
J
"I am thinking of something rather difficult to put into words"
John the Savage
J
"The truth is like a lion; you don't have to defend it."
John the Savage
R
"I'm not sick—I'm just not like you."
Randle McMurphy
I
"A man may be convinced of the truth of something, and yet not believe it"
Ivan Karamazov
I
"The rebel who denies God is more honest than the believer who lies"
Ivan Karamazov
I
"Truth demands everything from us or nothing at all"
Ivan Karamazov
C
"The real horror is the possibility of losing yourself."
Chief Bromden
R
"They want you to think you're sick."
Randle McMurphy
C
"You can't change the system from within."
Chief Bromden
C
"You learn to see through the lies."
Chief Bromden
J
"The truth is that civilized people are absolutely miserable."
John the Savage
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"I'm the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life."
Holden Caulfield
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"Phoniness kills me. It really does."
Holden Caulfield