184 Best Truth Quotes

Now, watch closely. The truth of the world. – The Great Forest Spirit
Princess Mononoke Truth Knowledge Transformation Death
You can't run from yourself forever. Your subconscious will always find you.
Paprika self subconscious Truth confrontation
You're not cursed. You were just in love. A rather pathetic self-inflicted spell. – Sophie
Howl’s Moving Castle Love Spell Self-Deception Truth
You see? There's no hiding from my magic. I can see right into your heart. – The Witch of the Waste
Howl’s Moving Castle Power Truth fear Vulnerability
The spores are not the enemy. Our pollution is the enemy. – Nausicaä
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind Pollution Responsibility Truth enemy
I've seen it! My father really did see Laputa! – Pazu
Castle in the Sky Belief Legacy Truth
The film is a lie, but it represents a truth. – Genya Tachibana
Millennium Actress Art Truth Illusion Memory
The greatest role she ever played was Chiyoko Fujiwara. – Genya Tachibana
Millennium Actress identity Performance Life Truth
I'm not a puppet. I'm a real boy! – Pinocchio
Shrek identity Truth Deception
You're a government agent. The truth is your business. Now start managing it. – Annie Hughes
The Iron Giant Truth Government authority Responsibility
I am not a boy. I am Parvana. – Parvana
The Breadwinner identity Truth Courage self
Sometimes, the wrong story is the only story that can be told. – Narrator
The Breadwinner Storytelling Truth necessity survival
This is not who you are. You know who you are. Who you truly are. – Tala's Spirit
Moana Self-Discovery Memory Truth
Do not be fooled by its commonplace appearance. Like so many things, it is not what is outside, but what is inside that counts. – The Peddler
Aladdin Deception appearance Truth Wisdom
Tell her the truth! – Genie
Aladdin Honesty Truth Love Integrity
You're not a street rat. You're not a prince. You're Aladdin. – Genie
Aladdin identity Self-Acceptance Truth Authenticity
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. – O'Brien
1984 Power History control Truth propaganda
He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past.
1984 Power History Truth manipulation control
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows. – Winston Smith
1984 Freedom Truth Reality Individuality Defiance
The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.
1984 Reality Truth Power control conformity
Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else. – O'Brien
1984 Reality Power control subjectivity Truth
Sanity is not statistical.
1984 Individuality Reality conformity Truth sanity
If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.
1984 Self-Deception Truth control conformity secrecy
The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.
1984 History Truth propaganda control Memory
To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies...
1984 Doublethink Truth Deception control Reality
In the end the Party would announce that two and two made five, and you would have to believe it.
1984 Power Truth Reality control conformity
Being in a minority, even 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.
1984 Individuality Truth sanity Defiance Reality
If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable—what then?
1984 Reality Power control subjectivity Truth
The book fascinated him, or more exactly it reassured him. In a sense it told him nothing that was new, but that was part of the lure.
1984 Truth Rebellion Consciousness Knowledge
One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.
Brave New World conditioning control Truth Reality indoctrination
Our Ford himself did a great deal to shift the emphasis from truth and beauty to comfort and happiness.
Brave New World Progress Truth Beauty Happiness sacrifice
Universal happiness keeps the wheels steadily turning; truth and beauty can't.
Brave New World Happiness Truth Beauty Stability control
If you really want to know the truth, it's this: I don't even know what I was running for – I guess I just felt like it. – Holden Caulfield
The Catcher in the Rye identity Truth alienation
If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you'll never learn. – Faber
Fahrenheit 451 Knowledge Learning Vulnerability Truth
So now do you see why books are hated and feared? They show the pores in the face of life. The comfortable people want only wax moon faces, poreless, hairless, expressionless. – Faber
Fahrenheit 451 Truth Comfort ignorance books
Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love. – The Elder Zosima
The Brothers Karamazov Truth Deception self-knowledge Love Respect
I am a lie, and the truth is not in me. – Ivan Karamazov
The Brothers Karamazov Truth Deception self-knowledge Despair Nihilism
I think you guys are going to have to come up with a lot of wonderful new lies, or people just aren't going to want to go on living.
Slaughterhouse-Five Truth Illusion Hope survival
All this happened, more or less. The war parts, anyway, are pretty much true.
Slaughterhouse-Five Truth Memory Reality authorship
I was never more hated than when I tried to be honest. Or when, even as just now I've tried to articulate exactly what I felt to be the truth. No one was satisfied.
Invisible Man Truth Honesty Society Rejection
America is woven of many strands; I would recognize them and let it so remain. It’s ‘winner take nothing’ that is the great truth of our country or of any country.
Invisible Man America diversity Illusion Truth
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality.
Martin Luther King Jr. Truth Love Reality Victory nonviolence
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on. – Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill Truth lies propaganda media
No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar. – Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln Truth Honesty Integrity Deception
I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. – Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln Integrity Truth Principle Honor
You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time. – Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln Truth Deception public Perception
I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts. – Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln people Truth democracy Trust
When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time. – Maya Angelou
Maya Angelou Wisdom Perception Truth Relationships
I must not tell lies. – Dolores Umbridge's Punishment
Harry Potter Truth Rebellion oppression Resistance
You see, in their last moments, people show you who they really are. – The Joker
The Joker The Dark Knight Morality fear Truth
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