Truth

"The technique of infamy is to start two lies at once and get people arguing heatedly over which is the truth." Ezra Pound

"The secret of liberty is to enlighten men, as that of tyranny is to keep them in ignorance." Maximilien de Robespierre

"Scepticism is the first step towards truth." Denis Diderot

"No one judges more harshly than the uneducated; he knows neither reasons nor counter-reasons and always believes himself to be in the right." Anselm Friedrich Feuerbach

"A fantastic thing is happening in our world. Today a man is no longer punished only for the crimes he has in fact committed. Now he may be compelled to confess to crimes that have been conjured up by his judges, who use his confession for political purposes." Joost A.M. Meerloo

"Freedom begins exactly where you stop bending yourself just to belong. There will always be people who don’t understand you—and that’s okay. Your worth is not defined by whether others accept you, but by having the courage to stand by who you are and to bring your own truth into the world with love and strength." Andrea Hein

"All great truths begin as blasphemies" George Bernard Shaw

"We are more gullible and superstitious today than we were in the Middle Ages, and an example of modern credulity is the widespread belief that the Earth is round. The average man can advance not a single reason for thinking that the Earth is round. He merely swallows this theory because there is something about it that appeals to the twentieth century mentality." George Bernard Shaw

"The truth is the one thing that nobody will believe." George Bernard Shaw

"If people in the media cannot decide whether they are in the business of reporting news or manufacturing propaganda, it is all the more important that the public understand that difference, and choose their news sources accordingly." Thomas Sowell

"Better think while it’s still legal." Erykah Badu

"I am grateful to realize that my desires do not entitle me to add to another's suffering." Zoe Weil

"The function of news is to signalize an event, the function of truth is to bring to light the hidden facts, to set them in relation with each other, and make a picture of reality on which men can act." Walter Lippmann

"A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies, becomes unable to recognize truth, either in himself or in anyone else, and he ends up losing respect for himself and for others. When he has no respect for anyone, he can no longer love, and in him, he yields to his impulses, indulges in the lowest form of pleasure, and behaves in the end like an animal in satisfying his vices. And it all comes from lying — to others and to yourself." Fjodor Dostojewski