50 phrases about truth that will make you reflect on its complexity

There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Sometimes the only real thing in a newspaper is the date.

Luis Fernando Verissimo

Convictions are more dangerous enemies of the truth than lies.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Not all truths are for all ears.

Umberto Eco

Truths can be naked – but lies need to be dressed.

Jewish Texts

We always end up acquiring the face of our truths.

Don’t look for the truth outside of you, it is in you, in your being.

Among the most worthy attributes of a man is that of knowing how to tell the truth.

Most of life’s fundamental truths seem absurd the first time we hear them.

Truth is corrupted as much by lies as by silence.

cicero

All great truths begin as blasphemies.

Truth is never pure and rarely simple.

Oscar Wilde

Peace requires four essential conditions: truth, justice, love and freedom.

John Paul II

There are no half-truths.

May the lies of others not confuse our truths.

Own your own truth, don’t let the world create them for you.

Two half-truths do not make one truth.

Whoever knows the truth best is more capable of lying.

Socrates

Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.

Galileo Galilei

Justice can be irritated because it is precarious. Truth is not impatient, because it is eternal.

Rui Barbosa

Telling the truth is always more effective in the long run than any well-crafted lie.

Three things cannot be hidden for long: the sun, the moon and the truth.

Buddha

Faith means not wanting to know the truth.

Truth is worthless as long as there is no indomitable will to turn that perception into action!

From error to error, the whole truth is discovered.

The truth of another person is not in what he reveals to you, but in what he cannot reveal to you. So if you want to understand her, don’t listen to what she says, but rather what she doesn’t say.

Moderation in the defense of the truth is a service rendered to the lie.

Olavo de Carvalho

After the first lie, all truth becomes doubt.

Even if you try to distort the truth, the time will surely come when it will be proven, or rather, we must prove it at all costs.

Fear shuts the mouth of the innocent and makes the truth of the guilty prevail.

Karl Marx

Disillusionment is the visit of the truth.

Chico Xavier

A lie, if repeated several times, ends up becoming a truth.

In an age of universal lies, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

George Orwell

The truth hurts, the lie kills, but doubt tortures.

A truth weakens when it tries to hide a single lie, and a lie grows more powerful the more truths it tries to hide.

The truth is that everyone will hurt you, you just have to choose who is worth suffering for.

Peace, if possible, but truth at any price.

Martin Luther

People don’t want to hear the truth because they don’t want their illusions to be destroyed.

The man who seeks the truth and does not find it is not wrong; he who, out of fear of making a mistake, fails to look for it.

There is no lie that lasts forever, just as there is no truth that does not appear.

A half empty wine bottle is also half full, but a half lie will never be a half truth.

The eyes that only see the lie when they perceive the truth, blind.

Karl Marx

The problem is that we tend to believe the lie and doubt the truth.

The more you try to hide the truth, the more it becomes visible to the eyes of others.

Truth has three stages: first it is mocked, then it is challenged, and finally it is accepted.

Arthur Schopenhauer

The truth needs no embellishments. The truth is truth in itself.

The only people who get angry when they hear the truth are those who live a lie.

Trying to hide the truth is the most embarrassing situation anyone can put themselves in.

Justice is truth in action.

There are only two certainties in this life: the first is that we will all die; the second is that the truth, sooner or later, will come out.