Truth Quotes

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

40912 quotes

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"I really mean it. That's the thing about me."
Holden Caulfield
H
"You'd think a good-looking girl that was very intelligent and all would not be such a phony."
Holden Caulfield
H
"I'm not too sure about that anymore."
Holden Caulfield
H
"What I really meant was I'm the most terrific liar you ever saw."
Holden Caulfield
H
"I swear to God I am."
Holden Caulfield
H
"I wouldn't want to be a phony."
Holden Caulfield
C
"They medicate us to keep us quiet, not to make us well."
Cheswick
C
"The real sickness here is the system, not us."
Chief Bromden
H
"One thing I like about it, it's very phony."
Holden Caulfield
H
"I'm always saying things I don't mean."
Holden Caulfield
H
"It's a phony world."
Holden Caulfield
H
"I swear it."
Holden Caulfield
P
"For a man to be truly great, he must stand with truth"
Prince Andrei Bolkonsky
H
"I'm the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life."
Holden Caulfield
M
"Stability is obviously better than truth."
Mustapha Mond
R
"That's a lie, and you know it. Jesus, I never seen such a lie in my life."
Randle McMurphy
C
"The system doesn't care about healing; it cares about control."
Chief Bromden
C
"The truth is, we were never really patients—we were prisoners."
Chief Bromden
P
"Truth is often hidden beneath layers of convention."
Prince Andrei Bolkonsky
H
"I'm the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life."
Holden Caulfield
H
"I really am. I'm a secret pervert."
Holden Caulfield
H
"I hate actors. They're phonies"
Holden Caulfield
H
"I'm the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life"
Holden Caulfield
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
Y
"That's some catch, that Catch-22. It's the best there is."
Yossarian
J
"Hell isn't something imposed externally, it's something we create ourselves."
John the Savage
G
"Lennie never done no bad thing to 'em"
George Milton
B
"The truth is, I am two people now"
Billy Pilgrim
H
"I'm the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life."
Holden Caulfield
Y
"That's some catch, that Catch-22."
Yossarian