Truth Quotes

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

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"The humans didn't want to destroy us. They wanted to destroy the buggers."
Ender Wiggin
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"The real enemy is anyone who chooses to believe lies."
Orson Scott Card (Narrator)
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"The games are real, and the consequences are eternal."
Orson Scott Card (Narrator)
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"In the desert, a man is tested. In the desert, truth is revealed."
Spice-induced narrator/Paul's visions
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"Words are wind, but steel is real"
Stannis Baratheon
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"The truth has a way of emerging, no matter how deeply it is buried"
Tyrion Lannister
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"Truth cannot be suppressed forever"
Salvor Hardin
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"A man wants his virility regarded, a woman wants her femininity appreciated, but first and foremost every human being wants to be treated as an intelligent adult."
Genly Ai
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"Truth is a matter of the imagination."
Estraven
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"The dead cannot praise the truth, the living must."
Genly Ai
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"We need not know one another, but we must see one another."
Estraven
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"I can imagine it. I just don't believe it."
Ender Wiggin
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"Most people are not going to look beneath the surface anyway."
Graff
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"The buggers are not the real enemy."
Ender Wiggin
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"The test was being myself."
Ender Wiggin
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"It was just a game."
Ender Wiggin
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"The war was real."
Ender Wiggin
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"What do you despise? By this are you made known."
Gaius Helen Mohiam
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"A man is proven by his actions."
Thufir Hawat
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"You can never go back to a belief once you know it is false."
Paul Atreides
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"The act of witnessing creates truth"
Genly Ai
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"Every lord is capable of every lie when it suits his purpose"
Catelyn Stark
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"The fantasies that sustain us are increasingly at war with reality."
Orson Scott Card (Narrator)
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"We cannot live with the truth about ourselves. We must believe in illusions to survive."
Kris Kelvin
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"We've never made a error or distorted information."
HAL 9000
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"I'm not a killer. You are."
Valentine Wiggin
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"You became the thing you despised."
Orson Scott Card (Narrator)
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"The game was never about winning."
Orson Scott Card (Narrator)
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"A shifgrethor violation cannot be ignored without shame"
Estraven
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"A promise made in the dark carries weight in the light"
Estraven