100+ Truth Quotes & Sayings

In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

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And this is the forbidden truth, the unspeakable taboo - that evil is not always repellent but frequently attractive; that it has the power to make of us not simply victims, as nature and accident do, but active accomplices.

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Better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.

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To forgive is wisdom, to forget is genius. And easier. Because it's true. It's a new world every heart beat.

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Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth.

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Everything is created twice, first in the mind and then in reality.

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The most common form of despair is not being who you are.

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It takes a certain ingenuous faith - but I have it - to believe that people who read and reflect more likely than not come to judge things with liberality and truth.

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The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins.

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Being in a minority, even in a minority of one, did not make you mad. There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.

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When the time comes to die, make sure that all you have to do is die!

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Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.

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Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.

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A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

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Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.

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

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Humility is nothing but truth, and pride is nothing but lying.

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Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know

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My bullshit meter is reading that as 'false'.

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The conflict between the will to deny horrible events and the will to proclaim them aloud is the central dialectic of psychological trauma.

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What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us.

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Alive or dead, the truth won't rest. Rise up while you can.

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For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

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There is no doubt fiction makes a better job of the truth.

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A thing may happen and be a total lie; another thing may not happen and be truer than the truth.

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That's what fiction is for. It's for getting at the truth when the truth isn't sufficient for the truth.

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Things come apart so easily when they have been held together with lies.

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

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

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All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.

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A lie, sometimes, can be truer than the truth, which is why fiction gets written.

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

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Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.

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We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.

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Each star is a mirror reflecting the truth inside you.

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The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself.

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The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counterintuitive. It may contradict deeply held prejudices. It may not be consonant with what we desperately want to be true. But our preferences do not determine what's true.

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Facts are like cows. If you look them in the face long enough, they generally run away.

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I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now?

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