Quotes About Truth

Our age is bent on trying to make the barren tree of skepticism fruitful by tying the fruits of truth on its branches.

In a secular age, an authentic miracle must purport to be a hoax, in order to gain credit in the world.

The brilliant passes, like the dew at morn; The true endures, for ages yet unborn.

I always sensed instinctively from the earliest age that I was being lied to.

That is what is wrong with our age. You know full well you are not watching the sun set. You are watching the world turn.

The young see what they wish to see. The old see what they do not wish.

My wife never lies about her age. She just tells everyone she's as old as I am. Then she lies about my age.

The absolutist takes himself to speak to the ages, with the tongue of angels, but the relativist hears only one version among others, the subjectivity of the here and now.

No lie ever reaches old age.

When you lie about your age, the terrorists win.

I told somebody in Europe I was 43. I never tell my true age. It's ridiculous that people ask. The press doesn't deserve anything but lies.

... what is peculiar to our own age is the abandonment of the idea that history could be told truthfully.

In any given age it is only a few extremists who are right.

I think of evolution as a myth, like the Norse myths, the Greek myths - anybody's myths. But it was created for a rational age.

There are a lot of people out there who lie about their age and I think it does us all a disservice. It can't all be over when you hit 30. That would be rubbish.

The gods lie. They lie because it's the best they can do. We reach out for their lies and we keep on living.

Why couldn't she have given him a sultry laugh as she'd seen women do in movies instead of giggling like some enchanted, mindless school girl?

When she told me her age I believed her - why not? she hasn't changed her story for five years.

The object of oratory alone in not truth, but persuasion.

Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death.

The more people who believe something, the more apt it is to be wrong. The person who's right often has to stand alone.

Either you will determine truth by your feelings or truth will determine your feelings. Be careful following feelings alone.

I wonder if living alone makes one more alive. No precious energy goes in disagreement or compromise. No need to augment others, there is just yourself, just truth - a morsel - and you.

You're certainly not alone in your megalomania. Everyone feels that way-and for good reason. Because it's true!