Truth Quotes

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

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"I had never dreamed of such cruelty concealed beneath civility."
The Invisible Man (Narrator)
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"The truth lies within myself, not in external validation."
The Invisible Man (Narrator)
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"I've never been more hated than I am now. I suppose it's because I've never been more honest."
The Invisible Man (Narrator)
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"I'm alive, I'm alive. But there's no blindness here."
Offred
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"I write like I talk to God."
Celie
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"The truth is the light and light is the truth."
The Invisible Man (Narrator)
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"I could have said no. I didn't say no"
Offred
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"Everything I've done, I've done as myself, a human being."
Kathy H.
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"I kept going back to the same thought."
Kathy H.
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"What I'm trying to say is, he wasn't lying exactly."
Kathy H.
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"Books lie. God does not lie."
Judge Holden
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"We are taught to be silent, but silence itself is a form of violence."
Laila
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"We are raised to believe our worth lies only in pleasing men."
Laila
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"Who knows but that, on the lower frequencies, I speak for you?"
The Invisible Man (Narrator)
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"I was never more hated than when I tried to be honest."
The Invisible Man (Narrator)
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"You accept what authority tells you to accept."
The Invisible Man (Narrator)
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"We live in the dark, mostly."
The Invisible Man (Narrator)
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"The truth must emerge from the chaos."
The Invisible Man (Narrator)
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"Ignoring isn't the same as ignorance, you have to work at it."
Offred
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"Nothing is as bad as not knowing."
Serena Joy
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"We weren't like you. We weren't even human, I'm afraid."
Miss Emily
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"The problem, as I see it, is that you've been told and not told."
Miss Emily
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"There was things which he stretched, but mainly he told the truth."
Huckleberry Finn
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"You can't pray a lie."
Huckleberry Finn
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"We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of print"
Offred
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"When they approach me they see only my surroundings, themselves, or figments of their imagination—indeed, anything and everything except me."
The Invisible Man (Narrator)
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"What I thought was real was merely illusion."
The Invisible Man (Narrator)
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"The truth will make you free, but first it will make you miserable."
The Invisible Man (Narrator)
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"Blindness has many forms."
The Invisible Man (Narrator)
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"Conscience is a man's compass."
Jean Valjean