Truth Flashcards
“But, whether true or false, my opinion is that in the world of knowledge the idea of good appears last of all, and is seen only with an effort; and, when seen, is also inferred to be the universal author of all things beautiful and right, parent of light and of the lord of light in this visible world, and the immediate”
-Plato, “the allegory of the cave”
“There are no facts, only interpretations.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche, “The Portable Nietzsche”
“Truth is a mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, and anthropomorphisms.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche, “On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense”
“The truth is terrible, and it is better that we should not know it.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche, “Beyond Good and Evil”
“The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.”
— James A. Garfield
“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
— George Orwell
“Truth is often the favorite disguise of the lie.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche
“The only truth is that there is no truth.”
— Rainer Maria Rilke
“What is truth? A mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, and anthropomorphisms.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche, “On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense”
“What is true for one person, may not be true for another. There is no universal truth. Everyone is entitled to their own perception of reality.”
— Mahatma Gandhi
“Each society chooses what is good and bad, true and false, according to its own standards and interests.”
— Michel Foucault
Truth is always subject to a particular point of view, or an ideological context.”
— Noam Chomsky
“In this world, there are no absolute certainties—only probabilities, opinions, and personal experiences.”
— Albert Einstein
“We are moving from a world where knowledge is the province of a few, to one where knowledge is a resource available to all.”
— Alvin Toffler
“The next great advance in civilization, whether it comes in the form of the discovery of new laws or the development of new instruments, will come from the increasing use of information.”
— Vannevar Bush
“Information is the currency of democracy.”
— Thomas Jefferson
“We are entering a new age in which the information we generate and receive will be at the center of everything we do.”
— Bill Gates
“We live in a world where there is more and more information, and less and less meaning.”
— Jean Baudrillard
“The media’s the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that’s power. Because they control the minds of the masses.”
— Malcolm X
“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
— George Orwell
“The first casualty when war comes is truth.”
— Hiram W. Johnson
“A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”
— Jonathan Swift
“News is something somebody doesn’t want printed; all else is advertising.”
— George Orwell
“A half-truth is a whole lie.”
— Yiddish Proverb
