Truth Quotes

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

40912 quotes

"Truth whispers while falsehood shouts."
Salvatore Quasimodo
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"The real scandal is not what is hidden, but what is revealed."
Pier Paolo Pasolini
P
"The poor understand reality better than the rich, for they live it daily."
Pier Paolo Pasolini
P
"Reality is far more complex and contradictory than ideology allows."
Pier Paolo Pasolini
P
"Authenticity is impossible in a society built on false consciousness."
Pier Paolo Pasolini
F
"In silence, we find the truth we cannot speak."
Federigo Tozzi
F
"Truth is the most dangerous thing we can know."
Federigo Tozzi
G
"We deceive ourselves more thoroughly than anyone else ever could."
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
P
"Memory is a form of resistance against the darkness of forgetting."
Primo Levi
P
"In naming our suffering, we begin to reclaim our humanity."
Primo Levi
P
"The power of testimony lies in its specificity and its humanity."
Primo Levi
E
"The truth of history is written in the wounds of the powerless."
Elsa Morante
E
"The most profound truths are always the simplest ones."
Elsa Morante
E
"The truth may set us free, but first it will make us very uncomfortable."
Elsa Morante
E
"Words have the power to heal or destroy; choose them with care."
Elio Vittorini
E
"The truth is rarely simple, but it is always liberating."
Elio Vittorini
E
"Truth emerges from the collision of different perspectives."
Elio Vittorini
D
"We are all monsters, but the real monsters are those who pretend not to be."
Dino Buzzati
D
"Truth may hurt, but lies destroy."
Dino Buzzati
D
"Truth is beauty in its most honest form."
Dino Buzzati
P
"The bourgeoisie has a true horror of the real world, of reality itself. It prefers illusions."
Pier Paolo Pasolini
P
"Silence can be a form of complicity, a betrayal of conscience."
Pier Paolo Pasolini
C
"What matters is that we live our own truth, not the truth others believe."
Cesare Pavese
C
"The mystery is not in what we discover, but in what we reveal about ourselves."
Cesare Pavese
C
"Truth has many faces; wisdom chooses which to show."
Cesare Pavese
P
"The power of words can heal or destroy."
Primo Levi
P
"Integrity cannot be negotiated."
Primo Levi
P
"We must bear witness even when it is costly."
Primo Levi
P
"The truth, once known, cannot be unknown."
Primo Levi
P
"We must speak truth even when our voice shakes."
Primo Levi