Truth

"We will never have access to what reality really is." Anton Zeilinger

"We Germans always think: 'We're doing this great!' After all, we have three outstanding qualities: being honest, intelligent, and faithful to the state. However, it is such that these three qualities never occur simultaneously in all Germans: either they are honest and intelligent – then they are not faithful to the state. Or they are intelligent and faithful to the state – then they are not honest. Or they are honest and faithful to the state – then they are not intelligent." Arnulf Rating

"No one wants the truth if it is inconvenient." Arthur Miller

"What happens when you broadcast the truth is you piss everyone off!" Bill Cooper

"The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists." Hannah Arendt

"Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real." Niels Bohr

"The American fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact." Henry A. Wallace

"Those who fear the facts will forever try to discredit the fact-finders." Denis Diderot

"I ask you to believe nothing that you cannot verify for yourself." Georges I. Gurdjieff

"The sciences of today are business enterprises run on business principles. Research in large institutes is not guided by Truth and Reason but by the most rewarding fashion, and the great minds of today increasingly turn to where the money is - which means military matters." Paul Feyerabend

"Don't believe everything you hear: Real eyes, Realize, Real lies" Tupac Shakur

"Most people, including ourselves, live in a world of relative ignorance. We are even comfortable with that ignorance, because it is all we know. When we first start facing truth, the process may be frightening, and many people run back to their old lives. But if you continue to seek truth, you will eventually be able to handle it better. In fact, you want more! It's true that many people around you now may think you are weird or even a danger to society, but you don't care. Once you've tasted the truth, you won't ever want to go back to being ignorant" Sokrates

"The criterion of truth is that it works even if nobody is prepared to acknowledge it." Ludwig von Mises

"The truth is that most people lack the intellectual ability and courage to resist a popular movement, however pernicious and ill-considered." Ludwig von Mises