Truth Quotes

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

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"La verdad es más fuerte que cualquier mentira."
Garcilaso de la Vega
"Words are the signs of things. They become the things themselves."
Salvatore Quasimodo
"Silence is also a word. It carries meaning and weight."
Salvatore Quasimodo
"The heart knows truths the mind cannot grasp."
Salvatore Quasimodo
"Truth is stranger than fiction because fiction is obligated to make sense."
Salvatore Quasimodo
"The truth we speak today becomes the lie we regret tomorrow."
Luis de Góngora
"The truthful man is condemned to bear the weight of his honesty."
Luis de Góngora
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"In brevity lies the greatest truth."
Ungaretti
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"Truth hides in the questions we are afraid to ask."
Ungaretti
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"In the marketplace of ideas, silence is often mistaken for agreement."
Francisco de Quevedo
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"Truth is an orphan in the marketplace, while lies inherit kingdoms."
Francisco de Quevedo
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"Modern life is a kind of blindness, a refusal to see what is really there."
Eugenio Montale
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"Truth is too terrible; we survive by accepting beautiful lies."
Eugenio Montale
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"The present is where we discover who we truly are."
Eugenio Montale
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"Concessions obtained under duress are invalid."
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
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"Once one has tasted the truth, one can never go back to lies."
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
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"Truth is harder to accept than comfortable lies."
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
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"The truth is not always beautiful, nor is beauty always true."
Miguel de Unamuno
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"Truth is that which does not change; it is eternal."
Miguel de Unamuno
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"In the silence of the heart, truth is revealed."
Miguel de Unamuno
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"La verdad duele más que la mentira más dulce."
Garcilaso de la Vega
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"La verdad es como el agua: siempre encuentra su camino."
Garcilaso de la Vega
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"La verdad no necesita defensa, solo claridad."
Garcilaso de la Vega
"The spirit of humanity survives in those who remember and speak truth."
Salvatore Quasimodo
"The heart knows truths that the mind struggles to comprehend."
Salvatore Quasimodo
"The truth may wound, but lies destroy from within."
Salvatore Quasimodo
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"The world judges by appearance; God judges by the heart."
Francisco de Quevedo
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"The night reveals what the day conceals."
Francisco de Quevedo
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"Truth is like light; it cannot be hidden."
Francisco de Quevedo
"The tongue is a river that floods the banks of discretion."
Luis de Góngora