Truth Quotes

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

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"Fidelity is not a matter of morality but of lack of imagination."
Gabriel García Márquez
"The truth is pursued not by those who deny it, but by those who admit their ignorance."
Gabriel García Márquez
"The truth is always revolutionary."
Gabriel García Márquez
"Truth is often stranger than fiction because fiction must be believable."
Gabriel García Márquez
F
"Language is the instrument through which we murder the truth."
Fernando Vallejo
F
"Truth is stranger than fiction because fiction must be plausible."
Fernando Vallejo
F
"The truth we refuse to face becomes our destiny."
Fernando Vallejo
J
"A man's true character is revealed not by his words but by his silences."
Juan Carlos Onetti
J
"In the end, we are all strangers to ourselves."
Juan Carlos Onetti
J
"We are trapped by the languages we use to describe our entrapment."
Juan Carlos Onetti
J
"We are all unreliable narrators of our own lives."
Juan Carlos Onetti
J
"The truth is that there are no final truths."
Juan Carlos Onetti
T
"La verdad, aunque duela, es más noble que la mentira cómoda"
Tomás Carrasquilla
T
"La verdad es como la luz: no puede ocultarse indefinidamente"
Tomás Carrasquilla
R
"The truth is like a lion; it doesn't need our defense. It will defend itself."
Rodolfo Walsh
R
"The investigator's task is to reveal what power wishes to keep hidden."
Rodolfo Walsh
R
"Every story untold is a truth that dies."
Rodolfo Walsh
R
"In a world of lies, telling the truth is a revolutionary act."
Rodolfo Walsh
R
"A lie repeated often enough becomes the truth in the minds of many."
Rodolfo Walsh
R
"Authenticity cannot be manufactured; it can only be witnessed."
Rodolfo Walsh
R
"In times of crisis, the truth becomes more important than comfort."
Rodolfo Walsh
R
"The disappearance of truth precedes the disappearance of people."
Rodolfo Walsh
R
"The truth is not determined by majority vote; it exists regardless of belief."
Rodolfo Walsh
R
"Facts are stubborn things; they refuse to disappear no matter how much one wishes them away."
Rodolfo Walsh
R
"The truth emerges not from comfort but from confrontation."
Rodolfo Walsh
R
"The greatest power lies not in the throne but in the truth."
Rodolfo Walsh
E
"The authentic self emerges only through struggle and self-examination."
Ernesto Sabato
E
"The search for absolute truth is noble, but certainty itself is the enemy of truth."
Ernesto Sabato
E
"The search for truth is more valuable than its possession, which is always provisional."
Ernesto Sabato
H
"Language fails where experience begins."
Haroldo Conti