Truth

"Whoever wants to deceive people must first of all make absurdity plausible." Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"When somebody says it’s not about the money, it’s about the money." Henry Louis Mencken

"The truth that survives is simply the lie that is pleasantest to believe." Henry Louis Mencken

"It often takes more courage to change one's mind than to remain true to it." Christian Friedrich Hebbel

"The true art of living is to see the miraculous in the mundane" Pearl Sydenstricker Buck

"It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." Mark Twain

"The truth does not require your participation to exist. Bullshit does" Terence McKenna

"Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood, let alone believed, by the masses." Plato

"Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road." Voltaire

"A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason." Thomas Paine

"Being "awake" isn't cool. It means having to dumb down 98% of your conversations every day so you don't sound like a lunatic." Dave Chappelle

"For the great enemy of truth is very often not the lie--deliberate, contrived and dishonest--but the myth--persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. Too often we hold fast to the cliches of our forebears. We subject all facts to a prefabricated set of interpretations. We enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought." John F. Kennedy

"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