Truth Quotes

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

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"Truth is beautiful and terrible."
Rafael Alberti
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"Journalism is not a profession, it is a commitment to truth."
Rodolfo Walsh
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"The testimony of the voiceless becomes louder than any official statement."
Rodolfo Walsh
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"A witness who does not speak betrays the dead."
Rodolfo Walsh
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"Authenticity cannot be manufactured or concealed indefinitely."
Rodolfo Walsh
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"An honest account is more dangerous than any weapon."
Rodolfo Walsh
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"Silence protects the guilty and abandons the innocent."
Rodolfo Walsh
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"The accumulation of evidence becomes irrefutable truth."
Rodolfo Walsh
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"Facts arranged carefully become undeniable."
Rodolfo Walsh
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"What is suppressed becomes the most important to recover."
Rodolfo Walsh
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"The narrative incomplete is more honest than the narrative false."
Rodolfo Walsh
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"Fiction and reality are simply words; the truth is that reality is already fiction."
Jorge Luis Borges
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"We should consider the problem of insincerity - the insincerity of the man who discovers a truth but does not tell it."
Jorge Luis Borges
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"I have committed a sin by telling the truth."
Jorge Luis Borges
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"There is nothing more important than to be sure of one's own truth."
Jorge Luis Borges
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"Truth is often stranger and more elusive than fiction."
Juan Carlos Onetti
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"We all carry secrets that define us more than our accomplishments."
Juan Carlos Onetti
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"The most honest words are often left unsaid."
Juan Carlos Onetti
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"The truth is often painful because it strips away our illusions."
Juan Carlos Onetti
"Truth has a peculiar strength; it endures when lies crumble."
Leopoldo Lugones
"Truth may be uncomfortable, but it is never ultimately harmful."
Leopoldo Lugones
"Reality is not always probable, or likely."
Julio Cortázar
"Truth is stranger than fiction because we forget to imagine it."
Julio Cortázar
"Truth exists in the tension between opposites."
Julio Cortázar
"The greatest deception is believing ourselves to be free while imprisoned by convention."
Luis Cernuda
"Truth wears many faces; the poet's task is to reveal them all."
Luis Cernuda
"To be authentic is to be perpetually misunderstood by the masses."
Luis Cernuda
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"We deceive ourselves constantly, pretending to understand what we do not understand at all."
Ernesto Sabato
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"Truth is so terrible that we surround it with lies for protection."
Ernesto Sabato
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"Truth is like the sun; it cannot be denied."
Juan Ramón Jiménez