Truth Quotes

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

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"The intellectual's responsibility is to speak truth when silence is convenient."
Jorge Edwards
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"The most revolutionary act is to tell the truth."
Jorge Edwards
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"The writer serves truth before serving comfort."
Jorge Edwards
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"The truth, however uncomfortable, is always preferable to a beautiful lie."
Jorge Edwards
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"I'm trying to be a moral person and at the same time accept that I'm not a good person."
Kathy Acker
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"To know yourself is to know nothing."
Kathy Acker
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"The self is a fiction we maintain."
Kathy Acker
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"The truth will destroy you if you let it."
Kathy Acker
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"Truth is dangerous and beautiful."
Kathy Acker
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"The body never lies."
Kathy Acker
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"I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true."
Abraham Lincoln
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"Truth is generally the best vindication against slander."
Abraham Lincoln
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"My defense is my life."
Abraham Lincoln
"In silence, truth whispers"
Miguel Ángel Asturias
"Truth needs no witnesses"
Miguel Ángel Asturias
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"The truth is like a lion; you don't have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself."
Nelson Mandela
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"The pen remains mightier than the sword, always."
Jorge Edwards
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"Truth is often hidden in fiction."
Jorge Edwards
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"Words once written cannot be unwritten, only reinterpreted."
Jorge Edwards
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"The page absorbs what the heart cannot hold."
Jorge Edwards
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"Every word carries the weight of a thousand unspoken thoughts."
Jorge Edwards
"Reality is often stranger than fiction in the lives of ordinary people."
Miguel Ángel Asturias
"Truth cannot be suppressed forever."
Miguel Ángel Asturias
"The heart knows truths that reason cannot comprehend."
Gioconda Belli
"Truth cannot be hidden; it only lies dormant."
Gioconda Belli
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"Don't fake anything. If you're going to do something, do it for real."
Kathy Acker
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"Memory is subjective. Everyone has their own version of what happened."
Kathy Acker
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"What matters is not what you say but what you refuse to say."
Kathy Acker
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"What we call madness is often just radical honesty."
Kathy Acker
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"The greatest lie is the one we tell ourselves."
Kathy Acker