Truth Quotes

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

40912 quotes

"Memory is a tyrant that rewrites history according to our desires."
Italo Svevo
"A confession made without regret is merely an advertisement."
Italo Svevo
"The most dangerous lie is the half-truth we tell ourselves."
Italo Svevo
"We construct elaborate theories to avoid simple truths."
Italo Svevo
"The world rewards consistency in error over inconsistency in truth."
Italo Svevo
D
"In the spaces between our dreams and reality lies the truth of who we are."
Dino Buzzati
D
"The truth is often more terrifying than any lie."
Dino Buzzati
D
"The night reveals what the day conceals about our true nature."
Dino Buzzati
L
"The tragedy is that we construct a sense of self that others seem to confirm, but which may be separated from our inner nature by an abyss."
Luigi Pirandello
L
"Even if by chance you stood near me, how could you ever believe that what I say is true?"
Luigi Pirandello
L
"The truth is not always the same as the majority decision."
Luigi Pirandello
L
"Lying is the privilege of a few artists and great men."
Luigi Pirandello
L
"Illusion is the only thing of which one can never get rid."
Luigi Pirandello
L
"In seeking truth, you may find pain; in seeking pleasure, you will find emptiness."
Luigi Pirandello
U
"The task of the intellectual is to speak the truth and to expose lies."
Umberto Eco
U
"To say of what is that it is not, or of what is not that it is, is false."
Umberto Eco
U
"Truth is plural; there are many ways to speak it."
Umberto Eco
G
"In the silence between words lies the deepest truth."
Giovanni Verga
G
"The truth we tell ourselves is often more comfortable than the truth of reality."
Giovanni Verga
G
"The pursuit of truth requires the courage to question everything."
Giosue Carducci
G
"The truth may hurt, but lies destroy."
Giosue Carducci
G
"Truth resides not in words alone, but in the silence between them."
Gabriele D'Annunzio
G
"The pursuit of truth requires a mind willing to abandon comfortable lies."
Gabriele D'Annunzio
A
"Truth cannot be compromised without corrupting the soul."
Alessandro Manzoni
A
"Truth is often uncomfortable but always necessary."
Alessandro Manzoni
I
"Truth is often stranger than the stories we tell ourselves."
Italo Calvino
I
"The most profound truths are often hidden in stories."
Italo Calvino
I
"Truth has many faces; wisdom lies in seeing them all."
Italo Calvino
L
"The search for truth is like searching for a needle in a haystack made of needles."
Luigi Pirandello
L
"The greatest deception is the illusion that we understand ourselves."
Luigi Pirandello