Truth Quotes

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

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"Pain is the only real truth."
Kathy Acker
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"We're all pretending. Some of us just pretend better than others."
Kathy Acker
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"The truth is whatever we can live with."
Kathy Acker
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"We're all trying to escape who we really are."
Kathy Acker
"Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress."
Mahatma Gandhi
"I have simply tried to do what seemed right and necessary."
Mahatma Gandhi
"A 'No' uttered from deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble."
Mahatma Gandhi
"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."
Martin Luther King Jr.
"I have decided to align myself with the truth, and truth is on the side of freedom and justice."
Martin Luther King Jr.
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"Life is a constant search for truth"
Rubén Darío
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"Truth cannot be hidden forever"
Rubén Darío
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"Truth is the foundation of trust"
Rubén Darío
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"The pursuit of truth requires us to question even our most cherished beliefs."
Jorge Edwards
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"Authenticity is the rarest and most valuable currency."
Jorge Edwards
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"Truth cannot be killed; it only sleeps."
Jorge Edwards
"Truth wears many faces, and only the blind deny them all."
Miguel Ángel Asturias
"The body remembers what the mind tries to forget."
Gioconda Belli
"Truth has a way of emerging, no matter how long we bury it."
Gioconda Belli
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"I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis."
Abraham Lincoln
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"No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar."
Abraham Lincoln
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"Truth is generally the best vindication against slander."
Abraham Lincoln
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"The most radical act is to tell the truth."
Kathy Acker
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"Truth requires the courage to speak what cannot be said."
Kathy Acker
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"To speak is to violence. To be silent is violence."
Kathy Acker
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"We must strenuously contest all attempts to impose on us values which are alien to our own."
Nelson Mandela
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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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"True reconciliation is not about forgetting the past."
Nelson Mandela
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"In my experience, I have found that telling the truth is the most effective diplomacy."
Nelson Mandela
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"The man who has no enemies is the man who has no convictions."
Nelson Mandela
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"Reality is often stranger than fiction."
Elena Garro