Truth Quotes
What is truth? These quotes explore honesty, reality, and the courage it takes to face both.
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"I am trying to be perfectly frank with you"Marlow
"The conscience is a judge more fearsome than any court."Javert
"Beware of false prophets."Old Major
"Man serves the interests of no creature except himself."Old Major
"The very essence of things is obscure"Marlow
"He was hollow at the core"Marlow
"Mind, none of us would like to be told how we look now."Marlow
"Everything else was false, deceptive, thin like a soap bubble."Marlow
"It was as simple as that—and terrible."Marlow
"Reality is inside the skull."O'Brien
"There is truth and there is untruth, and if you cling to the truth even against the whole world, you are not mad."Winston Smith
"The supreme court of appeals is in the last resort our own conscience."Marius Pontmercy
"The most important thing I learned on Tralfamadore was that ignorance and bungling and cowardice are the essence of Old Earth."Billy Pilgrim
"I shall endeavor to record, as I have done, the whole course of my life"Victor Frankenstein
"There is a taint of death, a flavour of mortality in lies."Marlow
"He was hollow at the core."Marlow
"This is the worst discovery one could possibly make about oneself."Marlow
"There was nothing either above or below him, and I knew it."Marlow
"Only the most abstract kind of truth interests me now."Marlow
"The revolution was a failure"Benjamin
"Truth will ultimately triumph over deception."Mina Murray
"Maybe some of the things I think happened didn't happen."Yossarian
"Truth, however terrible, must be known."Jonathan Harker
"There is a taint of death, a flavor of mortality in lies."Marlow
"He was hollow at the core."Marlow
"The taste of corruption is always bitter."Marlow
"The truth about Kurtz would have destroyed those who loved him."Marlow
"We have seen nothing of the kind."Benjamin
"The beast is part of us."Simon
"You're acting like a perfect idiot."Piggy