Truth Quotes

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

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"We are defined more by what we hide than what we show."
John Banville
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"Truth is less important than the search for truth."
John Banville
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"A single moment of true understanding is worth more than a lifetime of illusion."
Luís de Camões
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"We deceive ourselves more thoroughly than we deceive others."
Eça de Queirós
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"Truth is a luxury that most cannot afford to acknowledge."
Eça de Queirós
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"The truth is harder to find than we think, and easier to ignore."
Saramago
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"Truth has a way of emerging, no matter how we try to bury it."
Saramago
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"The pursuit of truth demands the courage to question everything."
Luís de Camões
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"The writer's responsibility is to tell the truth as he sees it."
Austin Clarke
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"Truth cannot be hidden indefinitely."
Austin Clarke
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"The truth will always surface eventually."
Austin Clarke
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"Truth sleeps in the depths where few dare to look."
Fernando Pessoa
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"Authenticity is impossible; we are all masks on masks."
Fernando Pessoa
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"Memory is the great deceiver, reshaping the past to suit the present moment."
John Banville
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"We live in the gaps between what we say and what we truly mean."
John Banville
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"The truth is rarely comforting, which is precisely why we resist it so fiercely."
John Banville
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"We live in a lie because truth is often too harsh to bear."
José María de Eça de Queirós
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"The world rewards deception more than truth."
José María de Eça de Queirós
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"The truth we avoid is often the truth we most need."
José María de Eça de Queirós
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"Truth, like water, always finds its way to the surface."
Padraig Colum
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"Truth needs no defense; falsehood requires endless justification."
Padraig Colum
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"Blindness is the best metaphor for human condition."
Saramago
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"A single moment of truth can outweigh a lifetime of comfortable lies."
Luís de Camões
"Truth needs no ornament"
Patrick Kavanagh
"Truth is like a lion; you don't have to defend it"
Patrick Kavanagh
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"We are all strangers to ourselves, wearing masks we call identity."
Fernando Pessoa
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"The truth is too complex for a single statement."
Fernando Pessoa
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"In the end, we are all mysteries to ourselves."
John Banville
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"Truth wears many faces, none of them entirely honest."
John Banville
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"Truth is the luxury of those brave enough to face it."
John Banville