100+ Brutally Honest Truth Quotes You Need to Hear

Understanding is a three edged sword: your side, their side, and the truth.

Falsehood is never in words; it is in things.

Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.

Night is a time of rigor, but also of mercy. There are truths which one can see only when it’s dark

I believe in God but people are liars. It's those people who say they are appointed by God who I don't believe in.

Every person must choose how much truth he can stand.

I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.

[I]t is the wine that leads me on,the wild winethat sets the wisest man to singat the top of his lungs,laugh like a fool – it drives theman to dancing... it eventempts him to blurt out storiesbetter never told.

The truth is messy. It's raw and uncomfortable. You can't blame people for preferring lies.

To hate others is ugly.To hate yourself is uglier.

I will no longer mutilate and destroy myself in order to find a secret behind the ruins.

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.

What I'm looking for is not out there, it is in me.

Don’t talk like that, Dill, said Aunt Alexandra. It’s not becoming to a child. It’s – cynical.I ain’t cynical, Miss Alexandra. Tellin’ the truth’s not cynical, is it?The way you tell it, it is.

Some negroes lie, some are immoral, some negro men are not be trusted around women - black and white. But this is a truth that applies to the human race and to no particular race of men.

The forceps of our minds are clumsy forceps, and crush the truth a little in taking hold of it.

There are many things in your heart you can never tell to another person. They are you, your private joys and sorrows, and you can never tell them. You cheapen yourself, the inside of yourself, when you tell them.

A good man is as strong as the right woman needs him to be.

I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction.

It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.

Most men would rather deny a hard truth than face it.

People often claim to hunger for truth, but seldom like the taste when it's served up.

To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.