Truth

"If a poet has a dream, it is not of becoming famous, but of being believed." Jean Cocteau

"What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness." Leo Tolstoi

"What a myth never contains is the critical power to separate its truth from its errors." Walter Lippmann

"Self-knowledge is the only basis of true knowledge." John Taylor Gatto

"The tone is gently authoritarian, leaving no doubt that this is the way the world is and no other way [....]Proclaimers of unassailable truths [....] The broadcast gives the impression of a short devotional in a living room chapel." Hermann Rotermund

"The oldest and most enduring alliance is that of lying and stupidity." Ernst Hohenemser

"It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office." H. L. Mencken

"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

"We're in a post-truth world where you can't believe the media, you can't believe Big Pharma, you can't believe politicians, you can't believe what you're eating, you can't believe yourself. Since we've existed, (if) there is a time where this whole empire could fall, it's now. Of course these things are going to arise because we can't trust anybody or anything. And I personally just believe and invest in my wife and my kids and my family. And yeah, I believe in them," Robbie Williams

"There are two different types of people in the world, those who want to know, and those who want to believe." Friedrich Nietzsche

"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

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