Truth Quotes

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

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"The honest person has nothing to fear from truth."
Sophocles
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"The mirror shows the face; only truth shows the soul."
Sophocles
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"The truth may be hidden but it can never die."
Sophocles
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"You cannot heal what you do not acknowledge."
Russell Brand
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"Truth cannot be suppressed indefinitely."
Russell Brand
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"In truth we know nothing, for truth is at the bottom of a well."
Democritus
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"Truth is hidden in the depths, like a precious gem in the earth."
Democritus
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"The person who seeks truth must first eliminate their biases."
Democritus
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"The truth might hurt, but a lie hurts more in the end."
Peter Kay
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"The truth will set you free eventually."
Peter Kay
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"Truth is funny because it's unexpected, even though we all know it."
Lee Evans
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"Honesty is the punchline that always works, even when it's uncomfortable."
Lee Evans
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"Truth is always more liberating than comfortable lies."
Russell Brand
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"Being is, and non-being is not; this is the path of conviction that attends upon truth."
Parmenides
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"Seek not comfort in falsehood, for truth alone sustains the soul."
Parmenides
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"To speak of being is to understand the fundamental nature of existence."
Parmenides
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"What is cannot fail to be, nor can being ever cease to be."
Parmenides
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"To be is to be eternal, to become is to be deceived."
Parmenides
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"All that is must be equally and simultaneously, without variation."
Parmenides
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"Being is neither generated nor destroyed, for these are contradictions in terms."
Parmenides
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"The apparent world of change conceals the true world of static being."
Parmenides
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"To believe in change is to admit that non-being in some sense is."
Parmenides
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"What is cannot lack completeness, for lack implies the existence of non-being."
Parmenides
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"That which is cannot be divided, for division would create non-being."
Parmenides
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"The ground of being is itself being—nothing more, nothing less."
Parmenides
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"What appears to move and change is the testimony of false senses."
Parmenides
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"The unity of all things in eternal being is the highest truth."
Parmenides
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"Being is what it is; it cannot be other than it is, now or ever."
Parmenides
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"Truth lies in the perception of all things together."
Empedocles
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"Truth cannot be spoken but only perceived."
Empedocles