Truth

"Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed." Friedrich Nietzsche

"The highest conceivable degree of lying is reached when judgment between truth and falsehood ceases and the liar believes his own lie and is indignant that others place doubt in his words." Franz von Holtzendorff

"The truth is always a compound of two half-truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say." Tom Stoppard

"A lie that is half-truth is the darkest of all lies." Alfred Tennyson

"The more moral a population is, the freer it becomes. The more immoral a population is, the deeper into bondage and slavery it goes. Another way of saying this is to say that the presence of truth and morality in the lives of the people of any given society is always inversely proportional to the presence of tyranny and slavery in that society. The more truth and morality there is, the less tyranny and slavery there is. The less truth and morality there is, the more tyranny and slavery there is. That's the Law of Freedom. And many people don't want to understand that; that these two things are inextricably interwoven and connected and can never be separated from each other: the presence of truth and morality in a society and the presence of freedom or its lack in a society." Mark Passio

"As a child I felt myself to be alone, and I am still, because I know things and must hint at things which others apparently know nothing of, and for the most part do not want to know. Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible." Carl Gustav Jung

"You don’t have to believe everything you think." Erykah Badu

"Man has much power of discourse which for the most part is vain and false; animals have but little, but it is useful and true, and a small truth is better than a great lie." Leonardo da Vinci

"Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good" Apostel Paulus

"We seek the truth, but we only want to find it where it suits us." Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

"No one is so busy that they don’t have time to tell everyone just how busy they are." Robert Emil Lembke

"If anyone can refute me—show me I’m making a mistake or looking at things from the wrong perspective—I’ll gladly change. It’s the truth I’m after, and the truth never harmed anyone. What harms us is to persist in self-deceit and ignorance." Marcus Aurelius

"One cause is rooted in the sad human truth that 'slaves' usually dream less of what it would be like to be free than of what it would be like to be 'slave overseers'" Dr. Dr. Florian Willet

"The last war among men will be a war for truth. This war will be in every single person. War - with its own ignorance, aggression, irritation. And only a radical transformation of each individual person can become the beginning of a peaceful life for all people." Nikolaus Roerich