Truth

"It will never be possible by pure reason to arrive at some absolute truth." Werner Karl Heisenberg

"The more often a stupidity is repeated, the more it gets the appearance of wisdom." Voltaire

"Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said." Voltaire

"People usually believe anything that they are told early and often." Robert A. Heinlein

"If you keep saying two plus two equals five over and over again, then that is what people are going to think. Maybe it does equal five if we keep changing the definition of what's normal and what's right and what's wrong." Kevin Sorbo

"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing." Sokrates

"The facts of science are real enough, and so are the techniques that scientists use, and so are the technologies based on them. But the belief system that governs conventional scientific thinking is an act of faith." Rupert Sheldrake

"The truth is that the government cannot give if it does not take from somebody...It is not in the power of the government to make everybody more prosperous." Ludwig von Mises

"In practice, the goal of skepticism is not the discovery of truth, but the exposure of other people's errors. It plays a useful role in science, religion, scholarship, and common sense. But we need to remember that it is a weapon serving belief or self-interest; we need to be skeptical of skeptics. The more militant the skeptic, the stronger the belief." Rupert Sheldrake

"There are two sets of principles. They are the principles of power and privilege and the principles of truth and justice. If you pursue truth and justice it will always mean a diminution of power and privilege. If you pursue power and privilege, it will always be at the expense of truth and justice" Chris Hedges

"A democracy survives when its citizens have access to trustworthy and impartial sources of information, when it can discern lies from truth. Take this away and a democracy dies. The fusion of news and entertainment, the rise of a class of celebrity journalists on television who define reporting by their access to the famous and the powerful, the retreat by many readers into the ideological ghettos of the Internet and the ruthless drive by corporations to destroy the traditional news business are leaving us deaf, dumb and blind." Chris Hedges

"To recognize that some of the things our culture believes are not true imposes on us the duty of finding out which are true and which are not." Allan Bloom

"There is one thing a professor can be absolutely certain of: almost every student entering the university believes, or says he believes, that truth is relative." Allan Bloom

"In so far as a scientific statement speaks about reality, it must be falsifiable; and in so far as it is not falsifiable, it does not speak about reality." Karl Popper