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