Truth

"I had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three. So I had read maybe 150 books by the time I hit 1st grade. And I already knew that the teachers were lying to me." Alan Kay

"Lies run sprints, but the truth runs marathons." Michael Jackson

"We are all capable of believing things which we know to be untrue, and then, when we are finally proved wrong, impudently twisting the facts so as to show that we were right." George Orwell

"We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality" Ayn Rand

"Falsehood will fly, as it were, on the wings of the wind, and carry its tales to every corner of the earth; whilst truth lags behind; her steps, though sure, are slow and solemn, and she has neither vigour nor activity enough to pursue and overtake her enemy…" Thomas Francklin

"A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is still putting on its shoes" Jonathan Swift

"Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations." Aldous Huxley

"A half truth is the worst of all lies, because it can be defended in partiality." Solon

"We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter." Denis Diderot

"Fake have become so normal that people now feel offended by honesty." Unbekannt

"The truth is that schools don't really teach anything except how to obey orders. This is a great mystery to me because thousands of humane, caring people work in schools as teachers and aides and administrators, but the abstract logic of the institution overwhelms their individual contributions." John Taylor Gatto

"Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another." Juvenal

"People can play many roles and be subjectively convinced that each one is their true self. In reality, however, they play each role based on their own ideas of what those around them expect of them. And for many people—if not most—the true personality is completely overshadowed by the false one." Erich Fromm

"It is better to be slapped by the truth than kissed by a lie." Unknown