Truth Quotes

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

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"The voice of truth is gentle but firm."
Frankie Boyle
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"Truth may be bitter, but it sets us free."
Frankie Boyle
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"Under the influence of wine, truth emerges."
Aristophanes
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"The mouth speaks what the heart is full of."
Aristophanes
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"The power of words lies not in their sound, but in their truth."
Aristophanes
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"Those who seek truth must be willing to abandon their comfortable beliefs."
Empedocles
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"The person who never doubts their beliefs has never truly examined them."
Empedocles
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"In the marketplace of ideas, only truth survives the test of time."
Empedocles
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"Truth requires no ornament; it stands beautiful in its nakedness."
Democritus
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"The pursuit of truth requires the courage to abandon comfortable lies."
Democritus
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"The path of truth is narrow and difficult, yet it alone leads to understanding."
Parmenides
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"Mortals are deceived by the illusion of change they perceive."
Parmenides
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"The path of opinion leads only to darkness and confusion."
Parmenides
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"To speak and think of what is not is impossible and meaningless."
Parmenides
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"Being is self-evident and requires no proof or explanation."
Parmenides
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"What is truly is; what is not truly is not."
Parmenides
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"Only the eternal and immutable deserve to be called real."
Parmenides
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"The impossible cannot even be thought without contradiction."
Parmenides
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"The goddess speaks two paths: truth and the ways of seeming."
Parmenides
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"The world of sense is the world of false opinion."
Parmenides
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"Change is an illusion born of limited mortal perception."
Parmenides
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"Being is necessity; becoming is the realm of opinion."
Parmenides
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"The goddess reveals that all becoming is impossible."
Parmenides
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"All becoming is logically impossible and therefore unreal."
Parmenides
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"Truth is like garlic bread - the more you have, the better everything tastes."
Peter Kay
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"You're not as bad as you think, and not as good as you pretend."
Peter Kay
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"The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also stupid, because you can't even trust the lies."
Frankie Boyle
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"The mortal who seeks truth must learn to see with both reason and intuition."
Empedocles
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"The truth will set you free"
Lee Evans
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"A good reputation is worth more than gold."
Sophocles