Truth

"An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie." Aldous Huxley

"Reality cannot be ignored except at a price; and the longer the ignorance is persisted in, the higher and more terrible becomes the price that must be paid." Aldous Huxley

"There can be no liberty for a community which lacks the means by which to detect lies." Walter Lippmann

"It's funny how everyone that lies gets popular and everyone that tells the truth is a fricking psycho." Unbekannt

"a small truth is better than a great lie." Leonardo da Vinci

"To reach the source, you have to swim against the current. Only trash swims downstream" Haruki Murakami

"Truth is still the truth, even if nobody believes it. Lie is still a lie, even if everybody believes it." Scarlett Ingrid Johansson

"Truth is of no practical value to mankind save as it affects terrestrial phenomena, hence the discoveries of science should be concealed or glossed over wherever they conflict with orthodoxy." H. P. Lovecraft

"If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an artificial conformity; but would merely insist on their unbending quest for truth, irrespective of artificial backgrounds or practical consequences." H. P. Lovecraft

"Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth." Oscar Wilde

"The process [of mass-media deception] has to be conscious, or it would not be carried out with sufficient precision, but it also has to be unconscious, or it would bring with it a feeling of falsity and hence of guilt.... To tell deliberate lies while genuinely believing in them, to forget any fact that has become inconvenient, and then, when it becomes necessary again, to draw it back from oblivion for just so long as it is needed, to deny the existence of objective reality and all the while to take account of the reality which one denies all this is indispensably necessary." George Orwell

"The study of error is not only in the highest degree prophylactic, but it serves as a stimulating introduction to the study of truth." Walter Lippmann

"When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion. The complex is made over into the simple, the hypothetical into the dogmatic, and the relative into an absolute." Walter Lippmann

"The best servants of the people, like the best valets, must whisper unpleasant truths in the master's ear. It is the court fool, not the foolish courtier, whom the king can least afford to lose." Walter Lippmann