Truth Quotes

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

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"When you are mad, you are mad; there is no in-between."
Salvador Dalí
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"Consciousness is the greatest luxury of all."
Salvador Dalí
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"Authenticity in art requires complete vulnerability."
Salvador Dalí
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"I think it is much more beautiful to live like that without falseness or pride."
Vincent van Gogh
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"If you want to know all about Andy Warhol, just look at the surface: of my paintings and films and me, and there I am. There's nothing behind it."
Andy Warhol
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"Truth is the foundation of any functioning society."
Yair Lapid
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"Truth will always prevail eventually."
Yair Lapid
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"In every concealment there is also a disclosure."
Michelangelo Buonarroti
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"The eye is a poor judge when the heart is not consulted."
Michelangelo Buonarroti
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"Never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality."
Frida Kahlo
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"My paintings are the most honest autobiography."
Frida Kahlo
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"I have never painted dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality, which is the only truth I really know."
Frida Kahlo
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"The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions."
Leonardo da Vinci
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"Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that unless we love the truth we shall never find it."
Leonardo da Vinci
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"True falsity is only found in words and not in things."
Leonardo da Vinci
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"We all know that art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth."
Pablo Picasso
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"The idea of searching for truth through form and color inspired all my work."
Pablo Picasso
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"The idea of searching for truth through painting came from the outside world."
Pablo Picasso
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"Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth."
Pablo Picasso
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"The beauty of a flower fades, but the beauty of truth is eternal."
Vincent van Gogh
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"The truth may be painful, but it is always liberating."
Vincent van Gogh
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"In politics, the truth is often the first casualty."
Yair Lapid
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"A person's true character is revealed in how they behave when no one is watching."
Yair Lapid
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"The test of our character is what we do when we have nothing to lose."
Yair Lapid
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"The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant."
Salvador Dalí
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"What is important is to be true to yourself."
Salvador Dalí
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"The eyes are the mirror of the soul and reflect everything that seems to be hidden and, more importantly, the predicaments we find ourselves in."
Salvador Dalí
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"I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning."
Andy Warhol
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"Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away."
Michelangelo Buonarroti
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"The body reveals what the mind conceals."
Michelangelo Buonarroti