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"The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear." Herbert Sebastien Agar
"In this world, those who seek the truth will also find trouble." Gary Amirault
"When people who are honestly mistaken learn the truth, they will either cease being mistaken, or cease being honest!" Anonymous
"When you want to fool the world, tell the truth." Otto von Bismarck
"Truth never penetrates an unwilling mind." J. L. Borges
"Truth, though it has many disadvantages, is at least changeless. You can always find it where you left it." Phyllis Bottome
"Some minds are like concrete, thoroughly mixed up and permanently set." Rev. Denny Brake
"If a thousand old beliefs were ruined in our march to truth we must still march on." Stopford Brooke
"An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, stays bought." Simon Cameron
"Ah yes, truth. Funny how everyone is always asking for it but when they get it they don’t believe it because it’s not the truth they want to hear." Helena Cassadine
"Men occasionally stumble over truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened" modified/generalized version of Winston Churchill's quote: "Occasionally he stumbled over the truth, but hastily picked himself up and hurried on as if nothing had happened." in which he was talking about political adversary (P.M.) Stanley Baldwin
"The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable." Jim Davis
"We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on trust what they help distribute to the public; by which means a falsehood once received from a famed writer becomes traditional to posterity." John Dryden
"The modern susceptibility to conformity and obedience to authority indicates that the truth endorsed by authority is likely to be accepted as such by a majority of the people." David Edwards
"Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth." Albert Einstein
"The search for truth implies a duty. One must not conceal any part of what one has recognized to be true." Albert Einstein
"Half a truth is often a great lie." Benjamin Franklin
"When the natural weakness and imperfection of human understanding is considered, with the unavoidable influences of education, custom, books and company, upon our ways of thinking, I imagine a man must have a good deal of vanity who believes, and a good deal of boldness who affirms, that all the doctrines he holds, are true, and all he rejects are false." Benjamin Franklin
"All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them." Galileo Galilei
"An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it." Mohandas Gandhi
"The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his [or her] deception, the one who lies with sincerity." Andre Gide
"Truth: the most deadly weapon ever discovered by humanity. Capable of destroying entire perceptual sets, cultures, and realities. Outlawed by all governments everywhere. Possession is normally punishable by death." John Gilmore
"I prefer the harmful truth to the useful error. A harmful truth is useful, because it can be harmful but for a moment and then leads to other truths which must be ever more and more useful; whereas a useful error is harmful, because it can be useful but for a moment and leads to other errors which are more and more harmful." Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Truth is not determined by majority vote." Doug Gwyn
"The Greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge." Stephen Hawking
"We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth… For my part, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst; and to provide for it." Patrick Henry
"The victor will never be asked if he told the truth." Adolf Hitler
"The continued utterance of a lie does not make it true, but it does convince many that it is, particularly if you can squelch most efforts to expose the lie." Shapley R. Hunter
"The real searcher after truth will not receive the old because it is old, or reject the new because it is new. He will not believe men because they are dead, or contradict them because they are alive. With him an utterance is worth the truth, the reason it contains, without the slightest regard to the author. He may have been a king or serf -- a philosopher or servant, -- but the utterance neither gains nor loses in truth or reason. Its value is absolutely independent of the fame or station of the man who gave it to the world." Robert G. Ingersoll
"When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker a raving lunatic." Dresden James
"It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself." Thomas Jefferson
"It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentional lying, that there is so much falsehood in the world." Samuel Johnson
"Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people." Spencer Johnson
"... the larger the crowd, the more probable that that which it praises is folly, and the more improbable that it is truth; and the most improbable of all that it is any eternal truth." Soren Kierkegaard
"There are two ways to be fooled: One is to believe what isn't so; the other is to refuse to believe what is so." Soren Kierkegaard
"The trust of the innocent is the liar’s most useful tool." Stephen King
"I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant." Martin Luther King Jr.
"Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity." Martin Luther King Jr.
"It's not a matter of what is true that counts but a matter of what is perceived to be true." Henry Kissinger
"Many people today don’t want honest answers insofar as honest means unpleasant or disturbing, They want a soft answer that turneth away anxiety." Louis Kronenberger
"The masses have never thirsted after truth. Whoever can supply them with illusions is easily their master; whoever attempts to destroy their illusions is always their victim." Gustave Le Bon
"A lie told often enough becomes the truth." Lenin
"I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts." Abraham Lincoln
"A radical is one who speaks the truth." Charles A. Lindbergh, Sr.
"Peace if possible, truth at all costs." Martin Luther
"For the great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearances, as though they were realities, and are often more influenced by the things that seem than by those that are." Niccolo Machiavelli
"If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; but if you really make them think, they'll hate you." Donald Robert Perry Marquis
"The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth." Henry Louis Mencken
"Here the ways of men part: if you wish to strive for peace of soul and pleasure, then believe; if you wish to be a devotee of truth, then inquire." Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
"I was provided with additional input that was radically different from the truth. I assisted in furthering that version." Oliver North
"The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one’s real and one’s declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink." George Orwell
"The process [of mass-media deception] has to be conscious, or it would not be carried out with sufficient precision, but it also has to be unconscious, or it would bring with it a feeling of falsity and hence of guilt.... To tell deliberate lies while genuinely believing in them, to forget any fact that has become inconvenient, and then, when it becomes necessary again, to draw it back from oblivion for just so long as it is needed, to deny the existence of objective reality and all the while to take account of the reality which one denies — all this is indispensably necessary." George Orwell
"He who dares not offend cannot be honest." Thomas Paine
"One fool will deny more truth in half an hour than a wise man can prove in seven years." Coventry Patmore
"False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil." Plato
"Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away." Elvis Presley
"There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth." Agnes Repplier
"People say they love truth, but in reality they want to believe that which they love is true." Robert J. Ringer
"The truth is "hate speech" only to those who have something to hide." Michael Rivero
"It is better to be divided by truth than to be united in error." Adrian Rodgers
"It is better to ultimately succeed with the truth than to temporarily succeed with a lie." Adrian Rodgers
"We cannot afford to differ on the question of honesty if we expect our republic permanently to endure. Honesty is not so much a credit as an absolute prerequisite to efficient service to the public. Unless a man is honest, we have no right to keep him in public life; it matters not how brilliant his capacity." Theodore Roosevelt
"Without seeking, truth cannot be known at all. It can neither be declared from pulpits, nor set down in articles, nor in any wise prepared and sold in packages ready for use. Truth must be ground for every man by itself out of it such, with such help as he can get, indeed, but not without stern labor of his own." John Ruskin
"Most of the greatest evils that man has inflicted upon man have come through people feeling quite certain about something which, in fact, was false." Bertrand Russell
"The governors of the world believe, and have always believed, that virtue can only be taught by teaching falsehood, and that any man who knew the truth would be wicked. I disbelieve this, absolutely and entirely. I believe that love of truth is the basis of all real virtue, and that virtues based upon lies can only do harm." Bertrand Russell
"The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible." Bertrand Russell
"If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth." Carl Sagan
"One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It is simply too painful to acknowledge – even to ourselves – that we’ve been so credulous (So the old bamboozles tend to persist as the new bamboozles rise). Finding the occasional straw of truth awash in a great ocean of confusion and bamboozle requires intelligence, vigilance, dedication and courage." Carl Sagan
"To seek truth and to utter what one believes to be true can never be a crime. No one must be forced to accept a conviction. Conviction is free." Michael Servetus
"All great truths begin as blasphemies." George Bernard Shaw
"Believe nothing just because a so-called wise person said it. Believe nothing just because a belief is generally held. Believe nothing just because it is said in ancient books. Believe nothing just because it is said to be of divine origin. Believe nothing just because someone else believes it. Believe only what you yourself test and judge to be true." Buddha, Hindu Prince Gautama Siddharta
"We do not err because truth is difficult to see. It is visible at a glance. We err because this is more comfortable." Alexander Solzhenitsyn
"The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie. One word of truth outweighs the world." Alexander Solzhenitsyn
"We allow the most atrocious lies uttered by political and moral prostitutes to go unchallenged. These lies are endlessly recycled in the commercial media until they become ingrained in the public conscience as truth. Worse than burying our heads in the sand, we bury them up our collective ass. How do you like the view?" Charles Sullivan
"Honesty has a beautiful and refreshing simplicity about it. No ulterior motives. No hidden meanings. An absence of hypocrisy, duplicity, political games, and verbal superficiality. As honesty and real integrity characterize our lives, there will be no need to manipulate others." Chuck Swindoll
"Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth." Thoreau
"How easy it is to make people believe a lie, and how hard it is to undo that work again!" Mark Twain
"The history of the race, and each individual’s experience, are thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that a lie told well is immortal." Mark Twain
"The statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by and by convince himself that the war is just, and will thank God for the better sleep he enjoys after this process of grotesque self-deception." Mark Twain
"When in doubt, tell the truth." Mark Twain
"Always tell the truth. That way you don't have to remember what you said." Mark Twain
"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on."
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"A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is still putting on its shoes." Unknown (not Mark Twain, but close to something Jonathan Swift wrote)"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident." Unknown (not Arthur Schopenhauer!)
"If you’re going to tell people the truth, you had better make them laugh or they will kill you." Unknown
"In times of universal deceit, telling the truth will be a revolutionary act." Unknown (probably not George Orwell!)
"Sometimes 'the majority' only means that all the fools are on the same side." Unknown
"The ability to lie is a liability." Unknown
"The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off." Unknown
"Truth is the first casualty in war."
"Certainly anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices." Voltaire (i.e. François-Marie Arouet)
"The folks who know the truth aren't talking... The ones who don't have a clue, you can't shut them up!" Tom Waits
"There is nothing so powerful as truth, and often nothing so strange." Daniel Webster
"One of the world’s greatest problems is the impossibility of any person searching for the truth on any subject when they believe they already have it." Dave Wilbur
"The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple." Oscar Wilde