Truth Quotes

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

40912 quotes

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"Any man who would break his oath would be a liar and a cheat."
Eliot Rosewater
C
"The stable buck's a nigger."
Candy
G
"It wasn't no good way."
George Milton
W
"Do you see any evidence of those explosions?"
Winston Smith
P
"To get at the truth we must first put aside our pride and our bad habits."
Pierre Bezukhov
H
"I really do. That's the thing about me. I'm the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life."
Holden Caulfield
H
"I'm the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life, it really is."
Holden Caulfield
Y
"Duty is the enemy of truth."
Yossarian
C
"The truth is never simple."
Chaplain Tappman
J
"I had thought that I could not be wrong, and yet I am."
Javert
H
"I really do. That's the thing about me. I'm the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life."
Holden Caulfield
H
"I'm always saying things I shouldn't say."
Holden Caulfield
M
"The secret's kept, I don't know how."
Mustapha Mond
O
"There is truth and there is untruth. It is idle to find out which is which."
O'Brien
Y
"Maybe some of the things I think happened didn't really happen."
Yossarian
H
"I really do. That's the thing about me. I'm the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life."
Holden Caulfield
H
"I have terrible latent homosexual tendencies."
Holden Caulfield
H
"The thing is, I don't get too sexy, though. It really doesn't interest me very much, if you want to know the truth."
Holden Caulfield
H
"It's a phony world out there, believe me."
Holden Caulfield
P
"To tell the truth is a French custom"
Prince Andrei Bolkonsky
P
"Truth is what is eternal and unchangeable"
Pierre Bezukhov
W
"In the end the Party would announce that two and two made five, and you would have to believe it."
Winston Smith
J
"You can't even talk to each other about it without living a lie."
John the Savage
L
"I done a bad thing"
Lennie Small
P
"The truth is often hidden in plain sight."
Pierre Bezukhov
C
"You're right. That's exactly it."
Cal Trask
Y
"That's some catch, that Catch-22."
Yossarian
Y
"Catch-22 says I have to do anything my Commanding Officer tells me to."
Yossarian
J
"Forgive me, but I must speak the truth as I see it."
Jean Valjean
A
"I have nothing to teach you - nothing. My whole life is a lie."
Adam Trask