Truth

"He therefore is the truest friend to the liberty of his country who tries most to promote its virtue, and who, so far as his power and influence extend, will not suffer a man to be chosen into any office of power and trust who is not a wise and virtuous man." Samuel Adams

"The things that we love tell us what we are." Thomas von Aquin

"I know you won't believe me, but the highest form of Human Excellence is to question oneself and others." Sokrates

"There is no real education that does not respond to felt need; anything else acquired is trifling display." Allan Bloom

"There are two threats to reason, the opinion that one knows the truth about the most important things and the opinion that there is no truth about them. Both of these opinions are fatal to philosophy; the first asserts that the quest for truth is unnecessary, while the second asserts that it is impossible. The Socratic knowledge of ignorance, which I take to be the beginning point of all philosophy, defines the sensible middle ground between two extremes." Allan Bloom

"Error is indeed our enemy, but it alone points to the truth and therefore deserves our respectful treatment." Allan Bloom

"Let the future tell the truth and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine." Nikola Tesla

"The idea came like a flash of lightning and in an instant the truth was revealed." Nikola Tesla

"What is the truth, but a lie agreed upon." Friedrich Nietzsche

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

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

"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

"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