Truth Quotes

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

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"Our flaws are more honest than our virtues."
Eça de Queirós
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"Man's greatest enemy is often his own indifference to truth."
Alexandre Herculano
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"The pursuit of truth requires the willingness to be wrong."
Alexandre Herculano
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"The truth, however difficult, is always more liberating than comfortable lies."
Alexandre Herculano
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"The only truth is the journey."
Fernando Pessoa
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"Truth is whatever does not harm the soul."
Fernando Pessoa
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"Truth is too dangerous for most people to bear."
José María de Eça de Queirós
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"The truth is often too ugly to be spoken aloud."
José María de Eça de Queirós
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"Truth is stranger than fiction."
John Banville
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"We deceive ourselves more cleverly than any stranger ever could."
Eça de Queirós
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"The problem is that we have constructed our world on contradictions, and now we must live with them."
Saramago
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"The truth is rarely pure and never simple, especially when it concerns the human heart."
Saramago
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"The body never lies, even when the mind refuses to acknowledge the truth."
Saramago
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"The price of truth is often loneliness."
Saramago
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"We are less afraid of the dark than of what the light reveals."
Saramago
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"Truth may be hidden, but it cannot be forever concealed."
Luís de Camões
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"Truth emerges when we ask difficult questions of ourselves."
Luís de Camões
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"The deepest truths are often hidden in the most ordinary moments of life."
José María de Eça de Queirós
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"I am nothing. I will always be nothing. I can want to be something, but I lack the power to be it."
Fernando Pessoa
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"We are all pretending to be what we might be if we weren't ourselves."
Fernando Pessoa
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"The truth is a closed fist; lies are an open hand that feeds you."
Fernando Pessoa
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"The only certainty is that nothing is certain."
Fernando Pessoa
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"Truth is the conspiracy of silence."
Fernando Pessoa
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"A verdade é como a luz; nem sempre nos agrada, mas sempre nos ilumina."
Almeida Garrett
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"A verdadeira nobreza reside na capacidade de perdoar."
Almeida Garrett
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"Truth needs no embellishment to be beautiful."
Padraig Colum
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"Truth is the foundation of all trust."
Padraig Colum
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"We are all unreliable narrators of our own stories."
John Banville
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"Truth is stranger than fiction because it lacks design."
John Banville
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"Authenticity is a myth we cling to desperately."
John Banville