100+ Brutally Honest Truth Quotes You Need to Hear

Faith and Reason are like two wings of the human spirit by which is soars to the truth.

To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues.

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?

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

What the hell is instant? Nothing is instant. Instant rice takes five minutes, instant pudding an hour. I doubt that an instant of blinding pain feels particularly instantaneous.

The truth is like salt. Men want to taste a little, but too much makes everyone sick.

Proof is boring. Proof is tiresome. Proof is an irrelevance. People would far rather be handed an easy lie than search for a difficult truth, especially if it suits their own purposes.

If she spoke, she would tell him the truth: she was not okay at all, but horribly empty, now that she knew what it was like to be filled.

The truth doesn't always set you free; people prefer to believe prettier, neatley wrapped lies

Just because it's fiction doesn't mean it's any less true.

Words are like eggs dropped from great heights; you can no more call them back than ignore the mess they leave when they fall.

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

Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.

Hypocrites get offended by the truth.

It’s hard to throw away history. It was like you were throwing away a part of yourself.

She was reflecting back on a truth she had learned over the years: that people heard what they wanted to hear, saw what they wanted, believed what they wanted.

the worst part about being lied to is knowing you werent worth the truth

Like all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth.

Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised or a little mistaken.

History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.

What cannot be said above all must not be silenced but written.

Yes my lord, but questions are dangerous, for they have answers

I’m just sick of ego, ego, ego. My own and everybody else’s. I’m sick of everybody that wants to get somewhere, do something distinguished and all, be somebody interesting. It’s disgusting.

It's partly true, too, but it isn't all true. People always think something's all true.