logo

Quotes About Truth

Show me something real
~ Unknown
People who live in an age of corruption are witty and slanderous; they know that there are other kinds of murder than by dagger or assault; they also know that whatever is well said is believed.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
All rulers in all ages have tried to impose a false view of the world upon their followers.
~ George Orwell
We are more naive than those of the Middle Ages, and more frightened, for we can be made to believe almost anything.
~ Neil Postman
It is the greatest truth of our age: Information is not knowledge.
~ Caleb Carr
There is no liberation to compare with freeing oneself from the illusions and delusions of the age in which one lives.
~ Terence McKenna
We live in age of compromise, but if we stand on the bedrock of God's truth, we will not bend with the winds of relativism and faithlessness.
~ R. C. Sproul
A glory gilds the sacred page, Majestic like the sun, It gives a light to every age, It gives, but borrows none.
~ William Cowper
Old age is when you are not bothered with bad dreams, but with bad reality.
~ Faina Ranevskaya
The irony of the information age is that it lends credibility to uninformed opinion.
~ Stephen Coonts
You get to an age where you get tired of hiding behind whatever people think is correct.
~ Betty Wright
You get old and you realize there are no answers, just stories.
~ Garrison Keillor, Pontoon
I deliberately state my age because it keeps me honest. I think lying is a bad idea. Sooner or later, someone's going to catch you.
~ Rita Moreno
I remind myself of Einstein's remark that common sense is nothing but a collection of misconceptions acquired by age 18.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.
~ Felix Frankfurter
Eventually you will reach a point when you stop lying about your age and start bragging about it.
~ Will Rogers
When I was 16, I got 'Jamon, Jamon.' Of course, I had to lie about my age. And I had to lie to my parents about the content of the script.
~ Penelope Cruz
If you want to serve the age, betray it.
~ Brendan Kennelly
Errors flies from mouth to mouth, from pen to pen, and to destroy it takes ages.
~ Voltaire
Nothing is more revealing of an age than its hypocrisies.
~ James Laver
I've often noticed" Fiona said, "that when people say, 'This can't happen in this day and age', they say it because it is happening.
~ Diana Wynne Jones
Lovers of print are simply confusing the plate for the food.
~ Douglas Adams
It's very difficult to get to the truth and ironically, in the Information Age, which we would have thought meant channels to the truth is in fact obfuscating the truth.
~ David Irving
I've told so many lies about my age I don't know how old I am myself.
~ Ruby Wax